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Show 66 NORTH CHINA MISSION Lintsing have no money with which to rent a chapel and no man to send to open the work''. ptrpcni\TAT Shortly after last year's report was PERSONAL w r i t t e n Mr. and Mrs. Ellis and Miss Ellis took their departure for their well earned furlough year in America. On Christmas Day, 1912, Miss Ellis and Mr. Hugh W. Hubbard were married at the bride's home in Curtis, Nebraska, going soon thereafter to Oberlin where Mr. Hubbard was to finish his theological course. They plan to sail for China in the early autumn. We envy the station to be favored by their presence. Dr. and Mrs. Smith were with us last autumn at Big Meeting time and put in a strenuous and splendidly helpful ten days of class work with the men and women teachers and preachers. Mrs. Goodrich was with us four days this spring and stirred all our wills to renewed earnestness in combatting the cigarette and allied evils. Miss Gertrude Wyckoff was with us through the busy days of Lintsing's far-famed fourth moon fair, giving direction and counsel to the Bible women as they tried to meet this wonderful opportunity of sowing the seed in many hearts. The force of Chinese workers has remained nearly the same as last year. Wang Wen Hsitt was graduated from the Seminary Short Course, and returned to take up work in one of our Chihli outstations. _„ . -__,,. . . This vear has not seen the realization MATERIAL , , .. , .... , , EQUIPMENT £ °U r , h ° r !". tb K ^ Woman s Hospital, be ut n't here fh a\e ,b een several additions to our equipment worthy of mention. Through the generosity of Mrs. C. J. King an isolation ward with eight beds has been added, and is now read}- for use. Last summer a comfortable Chinese house was built for the Chinese doctor's use and this summer homes for two of the teachers in the Boys' School will be rebuilt, the mud walls being replaced by the brickfaced ones, foreign windows and doors will be used and the yard, now a common one, will be divided for the sake of privacy. The Boys' School yard has been separated from the rest of the compound by an inexpensive mud wall, so that the boys now have their fine big yard to themselves. |
