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Show The women in the school have been most enthusiastic in going to the chapel in the city for their Sunday afternoon with the children, sometimes through rain, snow, or mud. There they are getting their first experience in handling groups of children. ' They take turns in being chairman of the meeting, during the worship hour telling stories to the children, and teaching the classes. As our women go back to their homes to do volunteer Christian work, and try to make a wee beginning in reaching the hundreds of children in their own villages they will find useful the practical training in religious education which this Sunday-school work is giving them; for in addition to the teaching of theory which they get in their own class work, this Sunday afternoon work gives them firsthand experience in meeting actual problems. The second Sunday-school conducted by the women is held in the chapel of the training school, and is attended by the neighborhood children. Every Sunday the men students go out in groups to several villages near Lintsing, from three to five miles away from the city, to conduct preaching services and Bible study classes. On New Year's Eve came the joyful news about our endowment fund. A few of you know of Mr. Hansen's offer of a second gift of five thousand dollars, to be used as an endowment fund on condition that the Chinese would raise locally three hnndred dollars gold before the end of 1929. Ten days before the end of December the Lintsing share of this fund was assured, aud we joyfully wired the news to Tehchow. A few days later came a letter saying that they feared it would be impossible to raise the amount assigned to Tehchow. We felt pretty blue, but didn't entirely give up hope. And then, on New Year's Eve, we had word that the Tehchow share of the fund was guaranteed!! Three hundred dollars may not sound like a large sum, against a background of houses with wooden floors and glass windows, Fords, and radios; but against a background of houses with dirt floors and paper windows, wages of about three dollars a month, civil war, bandits', drought, grasshoppers army worms, famine, flood, excessive taxation, frozen hands and feet, and starving children, three hundred dollars looms large. The biggest change during the past year is the building of our new dormitory rooms. The rooms for the men are all new. The old north court was fixed over to accommodate part of the women students, and two new dormitory rooms were added,-large enough to accommodate nine girls. In addition a new bathroom was built, and new rooms for the teachers, and a guest room. We are nOw using one of the faculty rooms as a classroom, expecting to build one new classroom when we build the new chapel. It. is much more convenient to have both the men and the women on the same campus, as it were. We have only one kitchen now (though the men and women are served in separate dining-rooms of course); and this is a financial saving, as well as a big saving of time and trouble. Our buildings are very simple one-story buildings, Chinese style. The walls are mostly of burned brick, the upper parts under projecting roofs of sundried mud-brick, plastered over. The buildings have brick floors and tile roofs. The rooms are un-heated, except that in the coldest weather each classroom and the |
