The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-02-26

With them a short time, for we held no long meetings, I asked each Christian to offer short prayer. All but two prayed, a boy of IS years and a man rom lone house way up on the side of the mountain. I urged little, and then the other Christians urged, and before we sat down both had broken the ice and had prayed before their relatives and neighbors.
 At Puai Sioh, for bed we had two wooden horses with rough boards laid across them. Here, we had some horses with boards of varying thick ness. We slept in the room used for the church. We did not worry over ventilation, even after we had closed and barred every door. While we were getting ready for bed there was lively scuffling outside to see who could get the best crack to peek through. But how we slept.
 At 9:30, next morning, Friday, we had taken breakfast and had short service and were on our way to Ing Hok city. We walked steadily till 2 p. m. First climbed 500 feet, then went down 1000, then up 1,500, then down 5000 more. This was a tough walk of about eighteen miles the last four miles | following the river and being level. | When we reached the level road we were ready to stop, but this was not | in the question, as our coolies were mountain men and just gloried in run ming up and down these paths. They | were in a hurry, also, for they wished | to go back to U Ngiang, that after | noon. We had to run some of the way | to keep up. Saturday, we did not go | far or do very much. MT. Goddard has | a new house at this station, ready for | occupancy, and is just beginning a | building for a hospital. He, with Mrs | Goddard and their son, Dorrance, will move up about the first of February. | Sunday, we went up in the mountains again to two chapels and held two communion services. This was short walk only two hours to the farthest | place. We had the service here and came down to the other place and took
 dinner, returning to Ing Hok city in time for supper. This makes six com munion services for me in five weeks.
 In the evening we held an evangelis- tic service in the city. Monday, at day | light, we were on boat ready to start | lOI fOoSIOW. ldI WC oiCPS OiA
 the boat and woke, Tuesday morning,
 at daylight, to find ourselves at the
 landing, seven miles from home. This | distance we walked in about two hours. I never enjoyed weeks outing more,
 was in the open air night and day. The | air was pure and all was mountain
 solcitude. There was no rush of busi-
 ness, every day I had walking enough
 to make me tired and to make a bed of
 boards with blanket thrown over
 them fee refreshing.
 Miss Garretson and Dr. and Mrs. | Woodruff arrived from America, the
 night before Christmas. The appro-
 priations came, Friday. The mission
 aries wore long faces, last year, as our
 salaries were cut ten per cent. This year. it was eight per cent, making
 eighteen per cent, but we can live on
 this all right The cut in the money
 for mission purposes is what reaches
 the heart strings. This last year it was thirty-five per cent. of what we
 asked. This year, there is an addition al cut of forty per cent. over last year S
 cut. This gives us less than half of
 what we asked for, to carry on the {! work of the mission, which has trebled l in the past three years.
 | The friends at home who are special | ly interested in us and the work in
 which we are engaged here, enabled us
 to keep from cutting down the work,
 last year. We have not planned defin-
 itely yet for next year, but I have hopes that we can do as we did, last
 year, trusting to the friends at home to | keep up their interest.
 Most lovingly, and remember us to all | the friends. w. l.. B.