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Show sent for her. Just as we expected, we found her in bed because of the cold bitter wind, she and her son shivering under one little old miserable bed quilt. Since then she has been in the hospital, and though we have small hopes of helping her eyes, she has at least been fed during these months of an exceptionally hard winter. She is very grateful and so • earnest in her keeping of Sunday. Lu Yin is a bright boy, and helps his mother and others in their court. He appeals to us often to find him a job-anything would be preferable to begging. MOHAMMEDANS THE Mohammedans of whom there are said to be twenty thousand in Lintsingchow have shown us a marked friendliness, due partly to their feeling that we like they are worshipers of the One God. In the purchasing of our new compound this last year three out of the four middlemen were Mohammedans. Through them in this and other ways we have been brought into close touch with the leading men of this Mohammedan neighborhood. They have told us more than once of pre-Boxer days and how they came to see through the hospital that the foreigners were here for the love of helping others. Those who are friendly to us delight in dwelling on the points where our beliefs are similar, but they are harder to reach, so far as making converts is concerned, than any other class. We have a few church members from this sect who have come to us in spite of persecution, because they really believe in the Christian faith. The general overseer of the compound is one. Another is an old crippled peddler. But the Sung family are the ones who have come most recently, and most directly because of contact with the hospital. Twice Mrs. Sung's life was saved by Dr. Tallmon going to her home day after day. When still so ill that she had to be carried to the dispensary in a basket she and her husband began to attend church and observe the Sabbath. She tried to think of some way in which to show her gratitude for her recovery and anticipating what she thought the doctor would wish, decided to unbind her little girl's feet. "Did not the Doctor save my life?" she said. "I would do anything to please her." Mr. and Mrs. Sung were received into the church on probation last fall and Shu Fang's bright face makes us happy as she goes through our compound daily on her way to our day school. Page nineteen |