The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1908-10-14

sticks and fingers begin to fly until
every one. is quite satisfied. When at
another tap of the bell, each girl is
OFF about her appointed portion OF
| the house work. The tasks are chang
to each ones lot to clear the table
Or wash the bowls, sometimes to sweep
the long verandah, or hallway or the
stair steps, or it may be to dust the
table and chairs in one of the reci-
tation rooms. At eight o'clock the
work is inspected. Sometimes a girl
chair TO rewipe a carelessly done tab
lie or TO sweep neglected corner, but
she does not resent the correction and
| think tries to be more careful the
next time. At eight fifteen all are
called to the School Chapel for their
quiet time Sister Bertha's" Christmas
new red edged bible and no girl ever
forgets to bring this treasure with
her to the morning watch. 1t may
seem a little strange to our friends
in America that our girls should have
their devotions together instead of in
their own rooms, but YOU must re-
member that they are still very young.
and that in every case two, and most
cases three and four share a room to-
gether.
These girls are real little Bible stu
dents. l wish that you could hear them
| tell the beautiful stories. One Satur-
day not long ago, we asked each of
the girls to prepare Bible character
for the evening service. Two of the
girls divided the history of Moses be-
tween them, and they succeeded in
giving us a pretty thorough review of
the greater portion of the Pentateuch
While we are giving them Mandarin
and English to help fit them for
the very highest positions of trust and
usefulness to which God may call them
yet more than all we aim that every
one shall have thorough familiarity
and reverence for the word of God.
The twenty-eight girls about whom
we have just been talking have come
to us from the little Day schools scat
tered here and there over the island.
| have in mind just uow, one of these
schools in little hamlet, far away on
the mountain side We might call
it one of our DISCOURAGING schools
1t is held in crowded little room,
where the threshing of wheat and rice
the mending of nets, or the drying Of
potatoes, fish or peanuts, make any
kind of order for the most part inn
possible The air too, is vile from the
stencil of the court, where the pigs
and chickens of the family fortunate
enough to have them, roam at Will
not infrequently straying into the
'school-room' itself. "Dsgusting!'
do | hear you say? or is some one
else saying "Why, pray. do you allow
a CHRISTIAN Day-school to be held
in such a place? But do not say it
just yet The fact is. it is the best
place the village affords. The school
is taught by weary little mother who
works most of the day With a frail
fretting babe in her arms, and another
just as exacting clinging to hel
skirts. The school has never been
quite up TO the required 60 number
of pupils and Your missionary has
often turned her steps homeward al
the close of the examination day Won
dering il it We're not 4 wrong use Of
missionary money TO continue school
longer, and, wondering, TO- what th5
folks AT home would say if they knew
And yet in om boarding school w
count five girls, one in the r4st on
in the second and three in the foul5l
class, Who have come TO use from this
same school The acher has vi
IDENTIFY done good and faithful work il
spit OF nctting Children and incon
lacus SURROUNDINGS tor Ser pupils
came 70 us well up IN their reqlHa
meQts Of "8Gmanized AlitaI@t
and the ne@ Naieaal aaees Fi )
are among GeY baiglest aRel hesi
girls, too. le lest hto 81 or
frs class SRA told me a few days ago
thai She sial never ac belfat e au