The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-11-17
VACATION DAYS
IN DARKEST CHINA
THE ARDUOUS LEISURE OF MISSION LIFE
in SUMMER time.
GODS WORK is PRoSPERED
Miss Glassburner Gives Glowing Account Of
Mission Work Among Women Of
the Celestial Empire.
Hal tang, Fooh. W, China,
July &c, 1909.

Hal tang, Fooh W, China,
July &c, 1909.
My Dearest Ones at home:
Another year is gone. The sum
mer vacation time. during which the
friends in the home land expect to
hear from us and our work is almost
gone, too. and still you have not heard
from Hai-tang. A hurried view of
these few weeks may make it clear
why the letter has been SO slow.
School closed Friday. June eleventh.
We then had Saturday and Monday
in which to put things away. do our
packing, close up the house and be
off to Ngu- cheng to accompany Miss
Bartlett to Foochow, on her home
ward way. The nineteenth saw US
in beautiful Foochow. SO like a bit
OF the home land with its pretty for
eign settlement cleaning through its
wealth of banyans. The twenty fourth
took US day on the steam launch.
down the broad Min River to Pagoda
Anchorage, where we saw Miss Bart
lett on to the "big steamer" and then
watched it move slowly out to sea
toward home and the loved ones. The
twenty. eighth brought us to Kuliang,
our mountain retreat. From it's
heights we look down on the swelter-
ing steaming plain below with rush
Of homssick longing to be back at the
precious work of the Master. And
yet, it is the Masters own word.
"Come We apart-and rest awhile"
and our hearts are full of thanks
giving for the cool life-giving air
and the quiet and the beauty of tie
resting place. July second and third
were given to our Estimate Meeting
There We saw in panorama the work
of the other stations and the press
ing needs of each. Our week of
special meetings with Rev. F. B.
Never, began July fourth. and won
derful, wonderful. wonderful were
the messages that the Father sent
us through His servant. July TWEEN
ty. second was the date set by the Con.
ference Committee for Examinations
on language work, and preparation
| for that event had TO be given right
of way for a time. And now. here
am in Foochow in company with
"Sister Bertha LAYING in supplies
for our workers Institute, which we
trust shall be in full swing three
weeks from today. Two weeks from
tonight, the Lord willing. we shall
be on the house boat on our way to
aai-tang. If every thing is very
favorable we shall be AT HOME
two days later and then how busy
we shall be getting ready for the more
than thirty teachers and Bible women
who shall be our guests for a whole
month. We trust that they may still
be with us when this letter reaches
you. so it is not too late to ask you tc
pray that the closing days of our con-
vention may be most blessed ones. II
is not an idle request. Pray; please
pray; you will pray for us-And thi:
is the calender of the summer. Should
you ask about some of the unaccount.
ed for days, there was packing anc
repacking; shopping; visits to the
dentist, trips to the hospital getting
a little sick Bible-woman settled,
visit with Cling Ngo, one of our grad.
yates who is now living in Foochow
letters and bills and financial state.
ments; and guess have forgotten
the rest.
In thinking of the year just closed
there seems to loom up before me
rather than any of it's details, an owe
whelming sense of God's goodness. fo
while my heart has been gladdene
and surprised at what He has done TO
. those to whom He has sent me. We
nothing else has seemed 80 wonderful
|, as what He has done for me.
The King has entrusted to us in Hi
Girls Boarding School. thirty-fou
precious girls who like the Nazaret
{ Child are growing in wisdom and i
5 stature and in favor with God an
man. They are very like girls il
! America-so full of life and fun an
pranks; subject to girlish cups an
DOWNS" making those who work wit
i them SO happy when they are "good
: and causing such grave anxiety an
! heartacke when they are naughty
8 But the pain over the occassiona
: naughty spells is forgotten in JOY owe
the earnest efforts to do better. an
I it is a cause for thanksgiving that tn
: cups and DOWNS are coming to
upon an increasingly higher plane.
The spiritual honesty and sensitive
ness of the girls is worthy of note
{ 1t is sometimes easy for second ger
Z GRAFTON Christians to feel th,t the
: are Christians because their paren,
! are and to take it as matter