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Show Board of the Pacific President, MRS. R. B. CHERINGTON Editor, MRS. E. R. WAGNER Headquarters, 417 Market Street, San Francisco Miss Rice is with her parents in Upland, Southern California. She was driven from Sivas with all the other missionaries, though Miss Graffan and Miss Fowle were allowed to return. Missionaries. S h e S ayS ' " * a m i n S ° o d h e a l t h > a n d n o t u t t e r l y d i s" couraged; for in the darkest days we saw a courage and faith among our people that made us feel that everything is not lost. And as in China, I look for a great change and opportunity after these terrible things." Rev. and Mrs. Sargent planned to return to Lintsing in August; and expected the Elizabeth Memorial Hospital would be dedicated in September. We too have been so interested in the Belgians, and have knitted and worked and given concerts for them. . . . The whole city was moved, and we really had a wonderful time, jottings ^-e j i a v e j u g t ji a ( j Qur Commencement, and it is al-rom japan. wayg painfu^ for the chapel is too small to contain more than half the school, to say nothing of guests. We are longing for a chapel that will hold all the students at least. At the Girls' School we have morning prayers in the Gymnasium, and each girl folds up her chair and stacks it at the end. The Gymnasium is uncomfortably full now. Rice is low, so the farmers can't send their daughters to school, but though rice is low, all commodities have gone up, some laughably high, matches for instance. Salaries do not rise, and so teachers and preachers and salaried officers cannot send their daughters to school. One would think, that when it costs only $60 gold a year, $180 gold for our whole three years' college, every sincere, earnest girl who wants an education should get it. They live on eleven cents a day. There must be Christian women who can spend their own money and live earnest Christian lives in Japan, and was there ever a greater chance in the whole world? Do tell some women who lead useful lives at home to come out here. There is no place in the world where, without learning the language, one can do more good. M. F. D. (455) |
