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Show Mentioning Wj brother, his disease is not different from years *®o.Last spring he Ifccpeetemted blood but the hemorrhage was not severe. Fortunately Ar.Love was able to cure him, and there has been only a slight sign of blooa once since. Last vear on© of his eyes became quit© blind. With the other he sees objects but not distinctly. He sends his greetings to all your family, and wishes vary much that he might s@e you again before h© dies. We pray that the Lord may he very graciously with you and your family now and ****M There is a great favor that 1 wi ah to ask of you,; can you mot give us * *PP photograph of your family ? •! would especi411y prize it as a reminder or your friendship. . wF . , , _J knd now most respectfully would I greet you, Dr. and 'Irs.Wagner, and wish | yon peace ten thousand times.To Hubert, mj younger brother, and Bessie ,my younger sister, I also send greetings and best wishes. Let me sign myself your son , who with all my family would pay you deep regards9 3hih Fu Tang. 8©pt.25th. Lint sing Oct.3rd 1914. Dear "re.Wagner the t r a n s l a t i o n of t h i s l e t t e r has taken the spare moments of several days and i s far frora s a t i s f a c t o r y . Most of i t 1 translated^ and wrote as 34r.Shih r®%<% the Chinese to me. Please excuse the many mistakes. >.*any times as we came on the house-boat .from su *^u Ssu you were in my thou# You can imagine my f e e l i n g s when the morning of the f i f t h day, e a r l y W jT before it had begun t o get l i g h t I woke to know that the boat had stopped ft* looking out from ay hammock saw th© moon r e f l e c t e d in t h e riv®r anc willow t r e e s and something large and dark and looking up 1 saw the old pegoda r i s i 'g r i s i n g almost as high as th© moon.And 1 knew t h a t I was back at Lintsing agai^, and I was glad. At seven when the boat was draw * up *t the land* riear the flower garden we were welcomed by a l l th© friends who could be cali, ed together at that time of day.There were the boys of the boarding aeiiooi dr-iwn up in two ranks headed by flying f l a g s , there were the teachers and h o s p i t a l workers, servants and workmen from th© yard,church-members and n e i ghbors , old people whom 1 had thought 1 might not see again and f ear youngsters grown almost past recoghitio.il. The school boys e s c o r t e o us to the big west gate where they saluted as m passed through and the f i r e - c r a ck e r s sputtered and popped and banged a gay welcome. Inside the gate ttr.Wa's f wife and the wives of the teachers and Miss Ting and the school g i r l s met us ••nd some of them walked with us to the house. The garden looked so p r e t ty with i t s olionders and oomegranatea i t s sun-flower© and einmasand the wa a.k bordered with hardy monthly roses all in red bloom. A few s t a l k s of tuberoses remained to f i l l the a i r with fragrance and the porch was covered with a womde-rful moon vine. , ***** The three weeks since then have been very busy ones, edical work i s s t i ll l i g h t as people are very much occupi©d with gathering the crop s. .Or.Chang has come and Dr.Ma w i l l stay u n t i l fee*Mrs.Chang i s going to be a very great aa* i t ion to our force of trained women. Bear Miss Ting has r e a l l y s t a r t e d to medical school. This sheet of paper i s not long enough to t e l l of her fin* decision, but of that I w i l l t e l l you another time. You should have heen hern to enjoy some of the feasts we ha we been having. But most of a l l 1 think you would have enjoyed the "tea meeting" vh en most of the church people of the c i t y were present , and the boys of the school aad the school o-irls who l i v e here, and neighbors and a few others. There was rausic and then ©peaches of welcome to our §guest Aiss <nmras and to me and then we t r i e d in t e r n to t e l l how happy we were to be t h e r e . But Ox a l i i said what they liked best was the news about t h e i r friends in America, J ASS Tyoms and the ChapinsfMiss Porter and your family. They l a u g h e d out loud when I t o l d hen the Chapia boys had grown t a l l e r than t h e i r mother, and when I told how you s t i l l remember© them and how you had inquired about t h e different families by name, the Tings and Wangs and Shihs, and Lius th© chiaos and ch'ens end P*angeaad tinge and ? 'ans they were very much touched.I gae the p i c t u r e postals you sent to a l l whom you nm®& and t o the others who rem ber©d you. "?or t h i s time I must close, With love to a l l my friends |