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Show CHAPTER EIGHT Do It**} Beauty in Desolation a Flooded Village in Shansi We should have failed to present a picture of the work if we had not added this closing chapter. The missionary life consists very largely of problems in bewildering variety. In the pages that follow, the story is told of how some problems were solved. Other problems are stated which are as yet unsolved. Into this world of problems we invite you. In TUNGCHOW a laree number of the soldiers have been withdrawn and in consequence the hospital receipts have been lessened, as the soldiers paid well for what they npnFP received, and the officers made special contribu- CHANGETH t' o n s - Their withdrawal has encouraged a better-class of civilians in coming, but how are you to adjust your running expenses to the diminished income? The afternoon kindergarten is located in an ignorant and narrow-minded neigborhood. Informing posters accomplish little when the mothers cannot read ; very few homes are even willing to invite a Bible-woman to enter; even a social tea-party, with winning after-tea speeches and explanations, glowing with kindliness and ideals of child-life, has not yet succeeded in warming the atmosphere to the point that the pupils come regularly or pay as high a tuition as in the morning kindergarten. Now the problem is, whether to keep on trying to leaven that particular lump of unappreciativeness for the sake of a few devoted ones, or to transplant the little garden temporarily to a sunny place where we know it will flourish, while we wait for the ungrateful neighborhood to wake up to its loss. In PEKING, the lectures for |