Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1914-08-12
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Letter From Rev. John Lake.

was like a letter from home.
We were so sorry to have to
come back here again, but as |
wrote to Aunt Belle, the doctor or
,dered it. You know after / had
helped Brother Lansdell. the repre-
sentative of the Judson fund of the
foreign mission board in South
Carolina, went to help him in the
same work in Tennessee and my
wife felt we'll enough to join me
there the latter part of June, but
tie terrific heat, and heat is the very
thing we need to keep out of for
awhile, after being 80 long in South
China, and the work of raising
money in a high pressure canvass
was too much. DR.. Hearn, one Of
our medical missionaries in China,
was in the party, and he ordered US
both to stop work and go further
north till fall. / have spoken eighty
three times in eighty-three consecu-
tive days, and my throat was in
Dad need of treatment, so | have
been here under the care of the
,Sanitarium's throat specialist for
five weeks. I had to cancel all
preaching engagements, and you
know me we'll enough to know that
that was hard for me to do.
We are both improving, l am
glad to say, aud are Of course I'M
proving the time, storing up strength
for future work Ill China, and stor-
ing up information from the splen-
aiA library of the Sanitarium, which
;inelules good missionary library.
We are not any longer living in
the Sanitarium proper, but rent
a room in a private residence, take
our meals at a snail restaurant
nearby, and take oar treatment at
the sanitarium. The treatments are
free to us missionaries. We couldn t
afford to live like some Of these
folks do. Some Of the patients are
millionaires.
1t is wonderful institution, and
though | 10 not agree with all Its
m .thods o. teachings, l am glad to
bear testimony to the high moral
character OF the place and of the
management, and to the Christian
atmosphere of the place. 1t is a
great resort for missionaries who
are trying to regain their spent
forces, and several Of our Baptist
missionaries are here now, from
China, Japan, Cuba and elsewhere.
Last night a Southern Baptist
pastor and good friend of mine,
Mr.. harrington, from Louisiana,
PREACHED; in, the ssnitarium parlor,
and the day before we had a SER
mon from DR.. Wallace, of Texas,
of the Southern Presbyterian
church, class mate 1 think of
Brother Bailey OF Edgefeld, when
/ was in charge of the Columbia
Y. M. C. A. and taking some stud
les at the seminary there, before l
went to Louisville.
We find severa. fellow South
.Carolinians here for treatment or
for vacation, some of whom we had
met most pleasantly in the days
gone by.
I know you will rejoice with US
that we have found what is really a
combination of a Christian hospital
and summer resort in cool climate
where we can improve our time
while we are forced to rest and
ewhile my throat is being treated.
For the first time in about live
weeks, l broke over and made a
ten minute talk at Baptist young
peoples meeting and preached al
the sanitarium last week as q sort
of experiment, but even that little
work gave my throat such set
back that after l have fulfilled my
promise to preach in the first Bap-
tist church next Sunday, l shall stop
and be good while longer. But
loafing is no fun, is it: Ia rather
be with you and your dear wife and
all the rest Of the friends IN the
meetings this summer and autumn
that we had planned to attend, but
the Lord seems to have ordered It
otherwise. China calls, and to heed
that call, l must decline the call TO
my heart that the dear old home
county and state are making, as l
read the programs in the paper,
l wonder if there ever was man
who loved home more than l 40. J.,
man who feeling called of God to
go abroad so much. have been at
home so little through al! these
years. But we never forget you and
the friends and kindred, and our