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Show REPORT OF GENERAL WORK, LINTSING STATION, NORTH CHINA MISSION. May 1st., 1913, to May 1st, 1914. While Dr. Susan B. Tallmon has been spending her furlough I. PERSONAL. year in America Dr. and Mrs. Love have been with us in charge of the Medical work of the station. The joy of welcoming Mr. and Mrs. Ellis on their return from furlough early in September was tinged with sadness for little Preston did not return with them. Just as they were about to sail he was taken sick with acute tonsilitis, and after a few days in the hospital the loving Father took him home. September 29th, Dorothy Eastman came to live with us and just one month later Oscar Houghton Love, Jr. was born. With the arrival early in October of the long-sought second lady, Miss Long, for the woman's work, our number of adults has been raised from four to eight. We are glad, too, to report that our Chinese force of workers has been augmented. Mr. Ting Wan Ch'eng, for two years loaned to Paotingfu, has returned with fuller knowledge of methods of work, and with even greater earnestness than before, to the work for which he is so well fitted. This year for the first time we have had as our very own not borrowed from another station ) one who is a graduate of both the college and seminary, Mr. Chao M'ng Tei. He came to us from the Peking Theological College the first of the year and has taken a large place in the work of the central station. His wife who has had some Academy training has helped with the teaching in the Girl's School. Other workers have remained as last year. In the Lintsing Boarding School this term there are sixty- II. eight boys, in ages ranging from ten to twenty. Four Chinese EDUCATIONAL, teachers give their full time to the school, and Mrs. Ellis gives an hour a day to the class in English. Aside from the Bible courses of the school curriculum the boys have regular daily chapel services in charge of one of the teachers, who acts as religious director. Many of the boys are from well-to-do ncn-Christian homes, and this is our opportunity to win them for Christ. The number of out-station day schools is the same as last year, only four. These schools receive only a pittance each year as a grant in aid. We can not afford to employ high-grade teachers, and in two places the teachers are not even professed Christians. Had we money to pay teachers of our own choosing, who could also act as preachers, these village day-schools could be made a strong power for good. With the coming of Chao Hsien Sheng to the city chapel HI. work renewed interest has been shown there. Working with EVANGELISTIC, him is a graduate of the Peking School for the Blind, Mr. Huang, who is especially eager to take advantage of every opportunity for preaching at the fairs and markets, as well as daily at the |
