The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1917-03-21

q teaCneF. Inc paStCI was OUT u
meet us before we got to the church
He is such a fine, devoted man, and
has a beautiful family. Their oldest
daughter is in the boarding school al
Yen Ping and the son is in the boys
school, They, too, had delicious
supper for Us. After supper there was
a little prayer service in the church
and after the meeting the pastor ask
ed me to speak at the service the next
day Sunday Of course | consented
and gave little talk on the Comes
and Cos Of Jesus" We were invited
to the home of one of the church mem
members for dinner. The people are
the parents of two other students, q
fine son and daughter, or rather q
little daughter-in-law, for the girl is
to be the future wife Of the son.
This feast was not at all modern
lied and the family. of course, have
not the most up to date ideas OF clean
| Illness and sanitation such as we are
more likely tc find III the homes OF
cur workers, SO the dinner was some
thing of trial to the flesh, but we
finally got through in time for the at
ternoon service at the church.
The week beginning with Sunday
January 9th, is to be week of evan
gelism for all China. The church
members are to go out in groups to win
their neighbors or the people OF near
by villages. The pastors talk in the
afternoon was preparatory to that. He
Used Christ's thrice repeated question
and command to Peter, Simon, lowest
thou me? Feed MY lambs" and called
on the people to pledge themselves to
secure for Christ. 1t was very bless
ed service and did me q great deal OF
good. In the evening one OF the boys
school students gave short talk and
there were prayers and testimonies
l said few words in Foo Chow about
what the day there had meant to me
in the way of inspiration and encour'
agement and asked the pastor to in
terpret for me, which he did, but alas
he did not stop there, but made 1T an
occasion to dwell upon the work O!
the foreign missionaries. He spoke
of the fact that we are taking this
trip in vacation time, that we were
planning to go to Ingang, which Is
often considered dangerous trip, and
of the inspiration that is to them Oh
course they cannot understand that a
change of work is all the rest a nor
NAL person needs and all the good
that the fresh air and outdoor life are
doing us.
We were up bright and early Mon
day morning for We had a'twenty mile
trip and a day school examination be
fore US and we were planning to walk
La little over half of ha way as there
4 was no sedan chair 10 sbe hired al
3Nguang Kang. SO it was. necessary fol
us to both walk all of the five miles
to the next town. where there are
chairs to be had. There we got chair
and took turns in riding the last fiji
teen miles,. There is chapel and a
resident pastor at this five mile point
We found him full OF enthusiasm and
earnestness over his plans for the
week of evangelism, There are Ger
tainly some wonderfully fine earnest
men in the work up here.
Before we left Nguang Kang we had
a precious season OF prayer with the
pastors family and our students, and
as we started off they had fire crack
ers and the last glimpse we had OF
the place was of the two school boys
standing at the street corner holding
a string of exploding fire crackers be-
tween them. We reached Ha Main
about o'clock and at once began to
examine the school. 1t wasn't a very
good school. The PASTORS wife, who
is also teacher, was so sick she could
hardly hold her head up, and then the
pupils were not we'll up on their
course of study, but it is new place
and the pastors wife had not done
any teaching for number of years,
so that she has not altogether got her
bearings yet. I feel sure she will try
harder next term to have things up to
the mark. After the school was exam
ined we had a supper given by the
pastor. Then after supper there was
a service and the pastor again asked
me to speak. We got up early in the
morning. | spent half hour with
children's report cards filled out. We
had rather unsatisfactory breakfast,
for all our bread was gone and the
water Cling Ming brought us for our
instant coffee was luke warm and
| somehow rice and salt fish and fat
pork do not. taste quite SO good for
breakfast They do for other meals.
We got a burden bearer without any
trouble and found sedan that was
| said to be making a return trip to Sa
Gazing, twenty miles, and as we have
been walking a great deal we did not
in the least mind the prospect Of ten
miles, apiece. But at the end of the
first six miles the chair men announc-
ed their intention of going back to
Sa Gazing. They were opium smokers
and were going so slowly that they
probably felt they could not make the
trip in a day. That meant that we
had to walk all of the other fourteen
miles. We had high, high mountain
to climb. We thought we would never
get to the, top, but when we did get
there we certainly felt repaid for on
every side there were most exquisite
vistas' of hill and valley, and clouds
spread out before u.s. We stopped at
little inn at the top and had cup
Of hot cocoa, which put new life into
us, and we got into Sa Gazing in slow
drizzling rain just after dark, having
seen some rarely beautiful spots
one or two ravines through which we
passed were indeed too beautiful for
words. There is no use saying we
were not tired, though all Of my tired
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