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Show ft*. >3. "1 want to be an *ggel,n was once the lyric cry, Thsn i®t iuch go be Bageit, Heaven speed then? But net If I east tc he 8 camel, and with the camels stand, l i t h aa sareer, nor destiay, no strategic work at ha&sA The angels must ea missions ge, and haste at mercy's b8ck> Mi social service i s their forke? and flying round like heck; But camels feel no mighty urge? n©r ftttty'a pushing pala, They mr&r io committee s?orkf nor rush to prayer end ps&lm. I want to be i camel, -and like a camel grace t i t s modesty end dignity and individual pace; Oblivious to schedules mi to programs I would be And wholly de«f tc crises and opportunity* As to rainent, imperturable.. serene in winter's Car, And GSk'm in spring ;fhen off i t eomes, at i t moth-eaten aere, impervious to climate, be it, Peking dust or mud, Ye gods! Griva me B camel's -life and time to chew my cua. • Stalls fisher Burgess. sVa aal heard much about • cheery Christian Chinese woman, "Mrs. Black," (English translation of her mm*) who, fith her husband in a remote mountain village kept a Caael Inn* and were ielightei HSBBI Dr. S»p aho lyjew her well* suggested that w© stop and call upon her. Soj-e thirty yaari before an American Medical Missionary from Fenchow was passing through this region on a country tour* He prescribed for many ailing people, but had not aith him instruments for ^ajor surgery, as any patients needing such would bs advised tc some to Ms Hospital in the city. Mrs. Black, kaaaaar, .was found to be in a c r i t i c a l condition with blood poisoning, and her WWTf l i f e depended upon B quiek amputation of one limb. loth Pie and her husband must have bean rare characters and lees superstitious and ignorant than many Chi&$se in the Intarior, for they aere willing to accept the advice el this iran from a foreign land. It iaa not possible te ieter and take her to Fenchoa, so the sagacious made, irm B piece of strap iron, and sterilised an instrument -aith which be cut off her limb eats' saved hsr life? All these years she had gotten along on an a r t i f i c i a l limb, and she became a Christian, &nd had been B sunbeam in her locality. She was not at home shea aa called* having gone to Fenchow to spend a lav iaya with her son, who aaa a trained nurse in the Mission Hospital, Mr. Black mad© us most release and suggested that .TO change from the spot re hal chosen to eat our picnic luncheon, as he knew the sue would be upon us before we *ould finish. i s had the chance to aa* the Camel Inn. Had the feeding troughs not Been explained to us.. a« should have been puszled to think what the l i t t l e stone boxes on the ground aere for. Having a l l seen Battels resting in the streets of Peking ani Tientain, w© could sallse how acceptable to them must he this special provision far their use. One real pastoral aee&a that aay amongst the mountains was s® pleasing I have always remembered i t . It *** truly Oriental. A shepherd with his flecks of aaea-white sheep led them down an abrupt precipice. They cane so massed together that trie impression was af a foaming cascade.. In the l i t t l e valley was a small cool stream they tare to cross. U aaa raii-aay aai the sheep were allowed to stop just long enough to each sat a sin of water. To those of us fho were not as wise as the shepherd, i t seeaea as if they should nave been perwittei to drink as much s s they desired, but he hurried thaa on up the h i l ls aa toe otner aide. Ihey had been g r a t i a , half . day, ani would continue to do so another t n . J??? *H ll«"*l *2 the s t i l l *a*«r*« was th e °tLhSot ug£h*t tht baet y tshhmiUs bea«ut•if*u l *p•ic*t•ur*e *le•ft- in "Hmey lMeiandde th I n s i d e |