The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-04-06


ment for their past SINS as well
as for any they might com NIT IN
the future. AS we were in the
lead, how | longed that we might
in reality be leading them In the
True Way, that they might know
and believe that Christ is The
Way, that the journey they were
wiling to take to help work out
their own salvation was so use.
less, that Christ had suffered for
them, and all they had to do was
to appropriate what he has done
for them. | sometimes think
that salvation Is so simple and
easy that it is hard for men to
believe. We always want to do
something ourselves, and cannot
rest on the finished work of
Christ.
We left Ilklchee the next morn.
ing, going to the next village at
which we would stop, some eight
miles away. We reached there
before noon, had lunch of some
good fresh native bread, matzoom,
grapes, cheese and tea. In the
early afternoon the women began
to come. | received the women
in one room and Mr.. Pittman the
men IN another room and we were
both busy with callers all the aft.
ernoon and evening. In the aft.
ernoon | spoke to about % wo.
men and in the evening five more
came IN. Some of these women
bad never seen a missionary nor
heard the gospel, and | felt it a
great privilege to tell them the
good news. Two little girls came
to my window, one ten years old
and the other IL, beth soon to be
married. The one ten years old
to be married to a man of 20
years, and the others fancee
is much older. They were very
pretty little girls and 1t makes
ones heart ache for them, to
know of all that they must endure
besides beng robbed of their
childhood and girlhood. These
people urges US to come again and
stay for a longer period which we
hope to do sometime this Spring.
There is something very at.
about village life and
village people IN spite of their ex.
treme ignorance and filth, but
one has to look above their actual
surroundings. We had an up
stairs room which had a window
overlooking the street; right IN
front of our window was a pool
of water, 30 feet long and about
as many feet wide, with walks on
the four sides. All that part of
the village came there for water.
In the evening they let the water
out of this pool into the gardens
after which 1t fills up with new"
water. Il do not dare say clean
water). 1t was quite interesting
If not horrlfylng to see how the
people would use the water. For
example: Across from US on the
farther side of the pool, a woman
comes out of her house with her
baby and gives 1t a bath-that is
washing It's face and its feet and
Inn bs to the waist. Then she
washes out its dirty clothes,
picks up her baby and goesback
into the house. Shortly another
woman comes along with her wa
ter Jug, fills 1t, and for some rea-
son she happens to come to the
same place where the woman had
washed her baby and clothes,
and after filling her water jug,
makes her morning ablutions.
On the other side a man drives
his donkey IN the water to drink,
and then he rubs 1t down with
some OF this water. We have
asked for some grapes and cheese
for breakfast as well as tea. From
our side of the pool the woman
Of our house comes out and wash.
IS our tea and grapes and fills
her water jug with this same wa.
ter. BY and by, a glll comes
along and pollutes thewater more,
and so it keeps on all during the
lay. Needless to say that when
our grapes and cheese came IN,
we scalded them with hoilinu wa.