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Show In the afternoon we had the Paiggles family. Florence was Mrs* HUggles mo the rest of us were the children. The girlies enjoyed it so much that as soon as we were through they wanted to p^lay it all over again ! The New Year is now well begun. The station class closed with Chris mas. .Jan, 6th the Week of Prayer meetings began with the regular Sunday morning sermon which I preached on The Eternal Things,' Nearly four hundred people were present. One notable item of progress since we went on furlough is shown in our Sunday School, Every Sunday from 200 to 400 people old and young are present, divided into nearly twenty classes for the study of the Word, At the old street chapel Miss Long with the help of some of the older school girls has gathered from 40 to 80 children and vnmen each Sunday, This is the kind of intensive work that counts and WB are proud that the attendance keeps up so well. For about a month now I have had a class of seven boys in English at the new street chapel. Three or four of these will come into our school here next term, anr? we hope to organize an English Club at the chapel meeting once a week instead, of the regular nightly class. There is much more which I would like to tell you about, but that must wait for a later letter* With best wishes to you one and all, Yours in His service, 'Vinton 2k Eastman». Dear Friends;- when I was in U.S. last spring I told many of you about the tatting, and you were interested in some of the tatters. The ex-juggler is still doing a flourishing business with his tatting in the capital of this great'Republic. The blacksmith is not/ cooking for Miss Tallmon and the other young ladies, said tats in the evening* fj?he "accomplished English scholar" is still tatting, and comas around about once a montn and announces that he has trashed his outside coat,, \7hen he came the other day Vinton told him that in America we wash cur clothes every week. „The tatting work has been interrupted by Mrs, Ellis's illness. For two weeks, at the request of the tatting women, we bold a prayer meeting every day to pray for Mrs.- Ellis's recovery. It was vary interesting and satisfying to see these women many of them non-Christian or Mohammedan uniting in prayer and to feel that many of them were getting a new idea of prayer. At the close of these meetings I had a class of fifteen of these women every day for a month studying the Gospel of Mark,: Most of there had learned to read it since they had begun tatting but didn't know the meaning of it at all. I now have some of these women in my Sunday School Class going over the same work in these quarters lessons, and I find that that month's work was well worth while. A delightful $£ place to go to is the Kindergarten. The children are so anxious to show me their handiwork and the beautiful way in which they can string their beads or to sing me some of their sweet songs, They have a nice sunny new building and as I have watched them hop on one foot around the circle I thought up a verse to the tuae of Grasshopper Green.j Small hopper White is a comical chap. Re smiles on'all of us there, Torn wadded jacket and trousers and cap# These are bis winter wear. Out in the circle he loves to go, Hopping around in the sun. It s hoppity skippity high and low, This is the place for fun. -Harriet and Dorothy often wish that they couid go back to America but they are happy with taelr kindergarten school work and music which they have with me every morning* Out doors they have their sajng« their cart, and their bunny. They are again learning* to talk *he Ofeinpse*. They are now making great plans for the visit to the seashore this summer, where they will have other children to p.1 ay with, Our Dr. Tallmon Sargent is going home this spring, and we are in desperate need of either a man or a woman doctor to take bar place* Do you not knot? of some one who can come very soon ? Our new Hospital building is ready, nurses are here ana in training, and sick folk are flockino to us. • The Hospital must not be closed, Ever your friend, Florence Cutler Eastman.., |