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Show a • But such girls are more than rare. Miss Ting is one in a million. If it were possible to add three or four such trained consecrated girls to our force it would hardly be $££$$$££ $4 necessary to ask tmt two more workers from America, But our workers are not trained. It is not right to set a young girl to teaching and give her only a few hours of supervision each week. It is not right to ask our Bible Women to keep busy all the year without some special times of preparation for their preaching. And is it right to hold a Kindergarten and not go calling in the homes from which thechildren come ? And we have the beginnings of an Industrial school. The girls are reading Hygelne. Are the hours and conditions such that they help them practice hygeine? The very fact that two Chinese women are financing for the most part this work means that it takes more tact and more care to guard against over-work and poor pay. What a field for evangelistic work in the country villages about usl What a great city teeming with life needing what we were sent here to givoi What material for Sunday-schools and kindergartens in the crowds of brown urchins to be met on every street And the appeal of old-age in China! -how barren these lives of that which should make the sun-set hours most glorious! And the women who come to study,how often their coming means a real sacrifice! and even persecution. And the poverty and the sickness! There is no need to try to cover the w whole field. If you at home were -not loving and pitying these women of China you would not have sent your representatives here, A list of the different things that come up to fill the hours would easily prove that if variety is the spice of life,the missionary lives a very spicy existance. It would make more or lesa romantic reading too. But as a matter of cold fact , the attempt to cober so many lines of work does not make for efflcency,any more than spice makes f0 the ideal diet. When we first come out duty plainly points t* language study-first* When we come back from furlough it seems that our being her- ought to make for some bettering of the invironment. We have specialists in America. Why not here'? Miss Long's work in the Girls Boarding School has been Intensive and effective. And no on- could see the girls without being su glad for them and sure of the worth -while-ness of such a school. When we were in f Techow in April to attend the annual meeting of the Shantung District of our miction,we took a few days to visit Tail an fu also and the grave of Confucius. But magnificent as the mountain scenery wa. and impressire as the pilgrim bands going there to seek merit,the visit with the friends of the Methodist Mis ion there,and the glimpse of the Women s Bible Training school there is the thing I have been most glad to remember. Some one trained for such work,with an organised school for preparing the Bible women,could send out into this field such a band of wotjmp that their work would far surpass what any missionary missionary herself could do. Please forgive so long a letter to so busy a lady! It only means a to say:Send some trained evangelistic workers,their coming won't be in vain The enclosed report ,written mostly by Urs, Eastman,will have reached you perhaps by way of the mission Secretary. I also enclose the description of a Kindergarten picture. It was taken in Q,0gX 1918,but may be of use in some childrens work. The picture was used to illustrate some of Mrs Pye's letters,altho they are all "East of the Mountain" (Shantung) kiddies. w ith affectionate regards to yon and all the ladies of THE BOARD" _1» **-/ VA X £*)• A |