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Show 46 NORTH CHINA MISSION whole garment, which covered ragged garments, sometimes mere fragments of garments beneath. The men, if they had warm clothing enough to go out, would try to do some small peddling on the street or some very menial work which brought extremely small pay, or perhaps, if they had enough strength, try to pull a rickshaw. If the earnings of the man would be less than those of his wife at sewing, he would care for the family at home while she went to the granary for the day's work. But some of the women have not had clothes warm enough to come out iu the coldest weather. A gift of money from foreigners of diplomatic or business circles in the city was distributed by the missionaries through a Chinese committee, who managed, with $42, to buy one hundred and fifty seven warm garments, to the great joy of the recipients. We note that this gift, iu addition to the other benefits it has brought, seems at last to have changed the attitude of the Mohammedan gatekeeper. "That is truly a benevolent deed," he said. "When I have time, I will go to their place to the service." In PEKING, also, the Ming Luii T'ang, or social centre for the women, furnishes one of the rare exceptions to the general . - - . . . rule stated in the opening paragraph. Oue r , T 7 1 v r»r i ?_ young woman whose husband had been killed in a family feud in one of the southern provinces, and who had fled to her father's home iu Peking for safety, came here one day, quiet and subdued, thinking that a little study might help her. It has been wonderful to see the chauge that has come in these three months. The heavy weight of the past seems to have dropped away. New interest and hope in life have come, and an eager joy and warm-hearted affection for those around her have come to be her characteristics. She is the most eager listener in the Bible class, seeming to watch for every word, and to need the help it might give. In every way, she longs for advance. In a number of ways, industrial work is being carried on by individual missionaries, iu almost every case having been TKTr,TtciTir«i started to meet actual need rather than with an INDUSTRIAL ,. . T r,A^T,T X T^T . T T . WORK evangelistic aim. Iu PAO I I N G F U in addition to cooperating in the work of the city industrial school, from which a class of thirty-eight graduated in September, the Missionaries have begun industrial work iu the |
