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Show OF SUCH 35 can say! The FENCHOW Sunday-school has been separated into departments meeting in various parts of the compound, of which the most interesting are those that gather in the kindergarten rooms, seventy youngsters under ten, with an admixture of boys who like to see things "go." The children have been bringing cash to help pay for their supplies, stowed away in the soles of their slippers until the time comes to drop them with a clink into the glass tumbler. Eight of the older school girls have been drafted into service as teachers, which has made it possible to have small classes, and has also been a splendid thing for them. The "ragged Sunday-schools" are the lines of work, simply because they are so simple. They may form the nucleus of a day-school, drawing its constituency from the non-Christian homes of the neighborhood, as well as from those church families that live Sometimes, to be sure, as in beginning ot manv OFF SHOOTS OF THE RAGGED SUNDAY SCHOOLS near enough. Summer Clothes in Lintsing LINTSING, a little stranger comes for a few days and then stops, while the other children volunteer the information that her mother whipped her for coining into the church yard. But more often the mothers are drawn to the school, and sit by in wonder at the knowledge of their little toddlers. It takes so little to make a child happy that the little celebrations at examination time are times of great rejoicing. Happy the child whose little Sunday-school develops into a kindergarten! Most of our stations now have them, and in some, they are the lineal descendants of the ragged Sunday-schools. In TUNGCHOW, they utilize one kindergartner for two "gartens," "Stimulating Elegance" and "Stimulating Truth" by name. Even before it is quite time, the fat little pupils climb blissfully over the high Chinese threshold, assisted by father or mother or grumbling but proud old waiting women. Cunningest of all is the time when all the jet-black heads are bowed on their arms for a rest. One day a candy peddler gave his weird cry outside the window. A little KINDERGARTEN DAYS |