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Show > an oíd sunken road-so bumpy and icy in places that w« *0 0 £ * ° J ^ -. í flelds,easy to travel because the ground was frozen. Dr. Tucker told ¡f us about the first years at Pang Chuang,^showed us ^ ^ « J í ^ i S e ^ e | tials carved in a tree, suggested where he ^ ° ^ * ^ ^ ? P " a ^ ^ ° " %J fore Boxer times and told about the moving of the hospital to Tehsien. V I was struck with admiration for the courageous way our missionaries é first settled in such an isolated small village in a región of many 1 villages-at the invitation of some resident of the village who had * come in touch with missionaries elsewhere. The c^pel even today J» £ y good repair and seemed spacious inside, as Chínese buxldings ge-reall^ 3 quite an auditorium. Took a picture of.pastor Lieujmd^his family. He [2 later made the train trip with us from Tehsien to Peiping. He was very * F fine spirited and certaínly was one who is putting a whole souled car-eer into country preaching. He brought tears to my eyes when he asked on that return journey, "Is it Christian for missionaries torefuse to come to Tehsien when need is so great-not a single evangeliario miss-ionary to help him?" I certainly admire the Chínese who continué faitn-fullv on in spite of even such discouragement as this-to say nothing about bandits,soldiers and anti-Christian movements* But the founda- «^tions were well laid and the church is indigenous and prospering. j >•' - il As we got back on the main road, we were soon in a continual 5 procession ,of people. The next village revealed the cause-a fair, or 2 market day. Everything from pork to shoes was spread in the main lañe | of the village on carts, wheelbarrows and on the ground with crowds ? milling around. A What a thrill when we finally sighted the Lintsing Pagoda aheadi 1 We were late, having stopped some time in a village while Dr. Tucker 2 filled out the insurance papers for a widow. I was surprised at the » evident height of the Pagoda for we saw it for a long time before we i could see the Lintsing wall clearly and that was no mean height. I was ~ JS utterly unprepared for the surprise at finding all of the city outside á ^K of the walls, mostly in west and south suburbs. We drove around the \ l northwest córner without entering the city wall and were soon in A.B. ~ "•% compound. There it all was-LINTSING AT LAST-hospital,schools,four large * residence houses and church on a large roomy tract of limd and arrang-ed around an ice-covered pond of considerable size. The Tuckers were >T put up at the Wickes» and Mr. Gilbert and I at the Robinson»si It was good to see Alma and having met all the folks at Peitaiho was like a home coming. >I am sure we didn't deserve all the welcome they gave us, but attribute it to the fact that so few visitors ever find their way to Lintsing these troubled t±tnefl-<-4iow-í-wish-Mrs. JSwartz had not lost . out on her visit to Lintsing for the hospital is. a little gem of archi-tecture- just what Dr. Swartz was looking for. The Chinese and city people were all so friendly-not a bit of unfriendly feeling like that. astir in other Shantung mission towns. Everyone looks upon the Mission as their noblest enterprise and gives it a rich heritage of affection and allegianceJ Dinner over we went with Dr. Robinson to the hospital and were shown around. How I admired his new set of rust-reSisting instrumente i I was glad Taiku has its new sterilizers, when I saw his little kerosene sterilizer for all the operating linen and supplies. Yet he did not complain. It really is remarkable what can be done with so little to do with. He had a pile of brick,stone and timbers outside-a temple torn down and donated for the new wing to house the X-ray. The men»s wardwas full with its usual high percentage of eye cases. An adjoining learby building with two rooms interested me because Dr. Robinson said it was where Dr. Tallmon Sargent worked. Then we went down the long corridor along the back of the hospital to the other side to the wo<*" men»s ward. There is where I met Mrs. Sung as related at the beginning of this letter. The adjoining building here is a series of prívate rooms. There was also an outbuilding of two rooms used asan isolation hospital. Then we hurried back for a tea. The Robinsons took us on a tour of their house. Noting the things they had ordered in an annual shipment from Boston made me real-ize how our whole system of buying at the córner store will have to stop when we go to Taiku. How exciting it is to look forward to furnish ing our own home for the first timeJ |