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Show a Lintsing,Shantung China. Nov. 24 1920 Mrs L.O.Lee, Room 1315 10 s. La s a i l e St. Chicago , 1 1 1 , U.S.A. My d e a r ehrs„ Lee, Tomorrow w i l l be Thanksgiving Day .and I want to write you a l e t t e r to say something/ of the g r a t i t u d e re at L i n t s i n g feel to the V»r,B.M.I, for the way poo have helped here. Anol the f i r s t thing ia t h a t we thank you for sending h i s s Van Kirk. She came when Mrs Eastman r e t u r n e d t h i s f a l l at oho end of September, Faster 14., t h e yifLfayp p a s t o r of the Peking Church was here for who was two weeks at t h a t time and since Plea van f i r / : oao known him ana his wife t h e r e i t was e s p e c i a l l y nice t h a t a r e c e p t i o n for the two of them eoula be held at the same time. Never before have we had a new worker who came to L i n t s i n p a f t e r having s t u d i e d at the Language School, Trie, MH^f rest of us have hao our f i r s t attempts at i n t e r c o u r s e with our Chinese friends b { n t : ^ f Q* a* i n t e r p r e t e r . So i t -vao a g r e a t d e l i g h t to nave P i s s VanKKrk s t a n a t h e r e on the p l a t f o rm a l l alone and sneak to them in Chinese, v?e were very proud of >>er and haooy. The l i t t l e matron at the h o s p i t a l hoe not oszilv solvea the mystery of i f Yat^/Hpv could uiaa Van Kirk t a l k when ©he had /Jp j u s t coma? Kvery other new missionary has been deaf and dumb, ; T w 0 weeks l a t e r when the new School Building waa read/ fy lor use we naa a a e r v i c e of d e d i c a t i o n on a b r i g h t Saturday Afte-noon/ It was Pastor Liagain who pave the address of the day,and Miss' V n Kirk who opened toe double moors and asked the people to come in and use the o u i l d in one c e r t a i n l y looked s w e e t , s t a n d i n g there .with her pink a r e a s ana dark pad o - i r p a n o the Chinese woo are not noted for demon;, t r a t i v e n e s a b u r s t into f f t i I ^ '-.*,.• < M n l:ie Gi u n e C h r i s t i a n aomen oi America ( t h at xo e a s i e r to say l o m ^ ^ o h B d h l . ; ^1 i n v i t e you to use t h i s b u i l d i n g ." ... ,,., . •-:. It i s a, l o v e l y b u i l d i n g , he c e r t a i n l y do thank you for i „itj: i : j e S i r l s nave s t u d i e d t h e r e since October s i x l e e o t n . There are five Y b r i | h t sunny roomer i n c l u d i n g the o f f i c e . I t seems u n g r a t e f u l to say i t is ,]y x» '-''•'- 'p <jUe p ^ i m U o i i rooms re fuxl to the l i m i t a l r e a d y . The assasrblv room too i s not too ]'-<reo for the* •••wor**! • nth r-y- n a T « ,y7 - > «*^*^ wv^ x,-.i.-y., x uj bn« geiiexai g a t n e r i n g s , i t does duty as a o t a s a room too. The north h»ii i>e-, whi/vii +K;« *,, ., -, * . ^ •• *™ '---• xii« »wi wa !.om i n t o wnicn toe rooms ouen p r o t e c t® them I rOffl thG fh t • ^T' OO I 0 Brif! i hia QAn^h »4 >••,.->«.-. 5 , «• «0 *«. * °-p~ p - rana i a . scutn windows l e t in such warm sun t h a t i t is i a i r i - y p o r t a b l e even without ane furnace. The weather has not been verv O n V M h > V thh ^ s been f r o s t and i c e . I do not want to put in s t o v e s , */ . -• J Lly-b osys ioio g i r l s take t h e i r oewino: out to Aiding and a e t war b W , i i l f °o u bo uoe sunny slue of the 1 t h e r e. ^ , . :'•... rhere are f o r t y - n i n e p u p i l s .eleven of then x i t t i e p i r ls °y. Lfe neighborhood who come in each day and do not board here Of toe ™ i r t y - e i g h t who ooa.ro here over half were unable to b r i n * foe usual food money 32 x d o l l a r ! a t e r n ] and bh*? »*»« 1 nvH r - ^ »«™ 1 r * j tw w • u b ; i t i &* e &rying to earn u by e r o c h e t i n g , In r;^i7^)vy OI U : e p ' ! - l n e c o n d i t i o n s I thought i t r i g h t to taaa tnem in even w t u u f Ulle u s u a l fee*and to iwep the former puoil's here u n t i l sorin I am very g l a d t h a t kfiss Lniv ^ave thmn «mh « nnH m-w 1 >- , »pr*«o. * am J D •-•-' ;; ;b fc>ave criem aucn a good t r a i n i n g la Crocheting, oln,> 4 4,u~y%ji . fe «ou*&*ng xo g i v i n g organ l e s s o n s to the tnaaa teacher ?ne v - i h h "Qr - j r i f ; , S n e h e ^ s with the s i n g i n g too. Miss van Kirk shares ixs,m 0E0 nglish Classes with me and g i v e s H*%t> Camp Fi; p xfi uae games ana hymnasties. She r e } wuo a.ooi a some evening c l a s s e s for , ' -1-11 !-";ite ynree teactiers ,00,0 are about the age of 'hei , , i . f , ,., '•••., , - «aui4Uix.i ovatiipij u i a s s l o r women was a record breaker with over one-hundren in attendanc r . Some oame fu..• .. 'ae« meais a day,out man i n the vapd and « u « t 1 ^ I n f ' c -oopnu new a i u l a r g e r k e t t l e s , ^ at iC y«»*T4 ctiiu bifcpu on the f l o o r Some cpi'-e for three mealfl B is - * # r e x - t r u e s t and worked hard at t h e i r r e a d i n g , ' ^ """"^ ^ ^ " J' • • 0 n ^ f o r i I i 0l> r e l i e f worm j u s t s t a r t e d is a home for / t ip poor c h i l d r e n , £ l * a .an XxrK ia on t h a t Comi i t f e e ana finds l o t s to m for tnem. r h e i r number, has swelled our Kindergarten to f o r t * ana o v e r/ *• , n o m m - •*- v t > e w i n ^ , a ^ d + t a ^ t l n b are ways of helping o t h e r s and as many as p a a s i n i e are being added to these departments. With 1 ovinia: pr^gti nga f*nr» t o o nfcmofmr,^ r« ,.^^ |
