Connecticut western news., 1922-02-23
INTERESTING LETTER IS
 RECEIVED FROM CHINA
Miss Gertrude Hoy Was Formerly Teacher
 Here

Those who remember Miss Ger trudei Hoy, who a few>years ago was teacher in the Caanan High School will be interested in the following Extracts from a letter written by her father to a friend in town.
 I Huping College
 Yochow City
 ..r. Human, China
 t'We are confronted here in Human with "a famine. Over in Shenchoufu, our seccnd station, the famie is quite acute; and there is some ter rible suffering. It is reported that in small district, eighty thousand peo- pie are threatened with starvation. Our missionaries and the Chinese Christians of that place, as we'll as some men and women of the better class outside of the church, have or ganized large relief work. Funds are coming in from the National Red Cross society and from our own church in the United States.
 Here in our Yochow district, the need of famine relief is not so great as over in Shenchowfu; but we have found it necessary to organize. We have set apart one of our men to act as treasurer of the relief funds for this district, and to take charge of the committee of investigation. He reports that in some of the outlying places, there is distress and that re- lief is called for.
 "The Christian work in general throughout China is going forward with assurance There is developing among the Chinese Christian leaders land church members,a a growing con- sciousness that in the final analysis, the evangelization of China and the upkeep of the indigenous churches will fall to them.
 Next May great national Chris tian conference will be held in Shan ghai. There will be over thousand delegates from all parts of China; one half missionaries, one half Chin ese, and representatives of the vari- ous Mission Boards in Europe and America will be sent, It will, no doubt, be an 6poch making conven- tion in China. There are large com mittees preparing along lines of many practical suggestions and sub jects. The Christian forces in China are more and more unifying and unf.; of purpose is gradually inspir- ing all efforts,
 Gertrude is still at work in her usual position in the Zeimer Memor- ial Girls School. Youchow City. She has been working very hard. Then, in addition to her hard work, on August 28, she went through very trying circumstance. Our district has been disturbed by civil war nine times in ten years; and last August the Northern forces laid siege to the city, attacking with eleven modern gun-boats. Two shells in quick suc- cession exploded in one of the rooms of the Girls School boarding de- partment, tearing out the roof and blowing out the walls of that part of the building: Gertrude was Jess than two hundred feet away. Tae whole VI GAdEAol 20 W0S LblA-OA the excitement of long lombard ment and Gertrude had the charge of some Chinese teachers and girls, some of whom had spent the summer there and some who had come for the opening of school the following week Tn her time, Gertrude has gone through similar experiences num- Der of times; and when some years ago, the Girls School building was struck by Lightning and burned to the ground, she spent the whole night with-terror stricken Chinese teachers and pupils. So, all in all, hard work and experiences of the kind I nave shown, had their effect on, not only Gertrude, but on some others. I have been earnestly asking the Board to commission another tea cher for the Zeimer Memorial Girls Scb5ol to help Gertrude"
 /. William E. Hoy.