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Show W I L L I A M S - P O R T E R H O S P I T A LS F. F, TUCKBK. M.U., TRAIMNO MOHOOL FOR SUI1SKH LOIS PK.„R„D.U„1,.T.O..W..., ..M,.. D.. It # ff ft £ . R KBV, AND MBS. K. w. KI.1..S. TBHCHOW, S H A N T U N G , C H I N A. BUSIKBSS MA.1AGKR AJD CHAPLAINS, Miss MY««A I,. S A W Y B R , H.N. M I S S G R A C B O. J K V I \ K , I<,.N.. MHi. KMMA B. TUCKKK. M,E Tehchow, Sung., China, Nov. 24, 1924 Dear Friends, Twenty years since we reached this station the first time ! Some of you followed us then with love and prayers just as you sire doing now. Emery wrote you the last letter, and I know that you were glad to see one from him. If you knew just how absorbed he is in his work, you would treasure it, and any personal lines that he sends you. The Chinese coipradore who works in the office with him, quoted a Chinese saying to me one day, - "He comes to his work with the stars, and is escorted home by the moon." Emery bought the coal for the compound this fall - which did not mean going to the phone and putting in an order for so many tons, the order to be followed by a check after the coal had been put away in our cellars. It meant inquiring prices and examining samples from several distant places, consulting with the different branches of the work and with each of the foreign families to find out how much would likely be needed. It meant hiring carts, carters, and mules, and an overseer for each group of carts. The coal had to be purchased before the harvest was fully over. The hundred tons was weighed at the river bank, and we do not know how much children managed to steal on the way, for the carters insisted that they had all that they could do to look after the mules, and the overseers could not, be everywhers at once. On the heels of this job, came consignments of freight from Tientsin with things for every branch of the work and several neighboring stations away from the railroad. The roads were still bad from the summer rains and he had more trouble with carts. But there is always a way, and he managed to get these tasks completed in time for the next things that have come steadily ever since, though all have not been so big or so difficult. A hostel and a hospital kitchen are being built, the former for women out-patients, and women who wish to be near some one in the hospital, and this takes some of his time. He is chairman of the Famine Committee. There is a region to the southwest of us that has been flooded the past two summers, of 300 villages and 150,000 people, a small region however, compared with the one to the north around Tientsin and Paotingfu (where Emery's sister lives). He is also chairman of the Finance Committee of the South Suburb Chinese Church, which is making efforts toward its own support. Perhaps I'd best sum up his work by saying he is busy and happy, since I cannot take the space to go into details of preaching, bookkeeping, etc. Emery told you about our friends, Mr. and Mrs. Evans, and their trip to the homeland. Mrs. Evans' mother and the two children and I stayed at the seashore until the middle of September. There had been fighting around Shanghai before that, and we were all watching Chang Tsoa Lin, the "Mukden War Lord", to see what he |
