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Show ^y/ Lintsingchow, China/, JDec.21st, 1910. r^^Dear friends of the ITorth Berke&ey Sunday School, j AL JLu~ ' v° u will b e glad to hear something more of the boy é^OE*e»^the gifts you sent îast year .feafcpad. Hr.He reported that he worked faitlîfully during the sommer at whatever he was asked to do. His weafe heart imnroved ranch during that time. He had not studied so rauch as he might, but when he was examined for entrance'Jo the church he showed that he had learnat not a little, and was received on probation. In this regara, you see, we Ifij. follow the Hethodist nlan.He saidfît is not for the sake of getting work that I wish to join the church.mieyer I am ail my life 1 will be a Christian, He told me that his|babv sister had been ill ail summer and was very thm. I said,"Bring her to the hospital." But we were busy at the hospital and day after day passed without his going home. Then his mother sprained her ankle and I was called. Such a poor home it was! The mother1* sprain was a severe one but that seemed nothing as compared with the baby1s condition» She look-ed like the oictures of famine sufferers and was so.weak that she could hard ly cry. We had them taken right to the hospital. While the baby is more than < a" year old she weighed only eight pounds. We at once began giving her con- J densed milk and she imnroved from the first, but will stillhave to add not a few pounds before she will looa like a normal child. She^Turns her head to a look at us when we talk to her and she likes tc.have a bright nièce of paper r to hold in her hand.She does not like me very well for she knows that î drame the sores on her head and that nhurts. t The mother is almost well andTwïll soon be going home. She has learned mueri V while hère about the "Jésus Way", and prays in a queer mixture of set phrases 1 and child-like pétitions. She says she will never again worship idole, and she talks about*, "We who are Christians." in a way that makes us very wistful \ to hâve her learn more. , \ The Chinese say,"Well,if that baby lives both the brother and sister will v owe their lives to the hospital." You and, I know that they will owe their lives not primarilv to the hospital, but to the Love of God which has con-f* strained you and others to build this hospital and to furnish the condensed ! milk and the medicine and salaries for helpers and other means that are used 1 in making sick peoole well.77e hope the life they receive because of coming to the hospital will be not merely physical life, but will be also life eter- ) mal. Will you please pray for this mother who knows so little but is will- 1 ing to iiff féi learn more, and for the son who finds new temptations meet-ri^ ing him as he tries to follow Christ, and for the baby girl that she may grow strong in body and as she grows in years grow also $-* tue Knowledge of Jésus Christ, Sineerely yOUr friend, 5 ^ ^ tT^UÙ*^*~** |