Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-03-01
Letter From Mrs. Snuggs.
Dear DR.. Cody:


Baptist Courier las he is away on a
long ;t~inerating trip, he is not able to
write). 1 fear he does rot know what
he is asking of me, for l have never
written to a paper and would not
know how to begin. So, after much
prayer, thought and anxiety (of
course wanting to "'obey" although
I never promised that finally de-
eided to write to DR.. Cody.
/ am alone here now for nearly
four long weeks on my elsie of pat
mos" its so lonely. Do you know I
have not spoken a word of English in
all these weeks excepting to myself
and my Chinese yellow dog. Yester-
day a real American flag came to me
through the mail. What do you think
was the first thing l did on opening
it? Yes, / cried for joy, to see a bit
of real home, and I am not ashamed
to say that tears flowed freely for a
while. 1 am only human, am still in
the flesh. Oh! how we need help here
among these three millions souls and
more. And only two lone Baptist
Missionaries (and / car hear you
say, "yes, and they are getting old.")
Our Chinese workers here were so
disappointed on u return finding we
had no re-enforcements.
On our arrival here October 18th,
we were met on the wharf by our two
schools, Boys and Girls with their
drums, bugles, flags, ETC., escorting US
to our little rented home here. Com
ing into the yard they had speeches
of welcome. All this cheered us so
much. The next day we were the
guests of our members at a Chinese
meal, we ate with chopsticks, wish
you could have been with US; am
sure you would have enjoyed the
meal, "sticks" thrown in. After the
feast, we all went into the well filled
chapel where speeches of welcome
were made by the men, and just
think! for the first time in the history
of our Pakhoi work a woman spoke
in the mixed audience. l was real
fearful, but Mr.. Snuggs told me l
did well, (wonder if he only said that
to cheer me?). We have over 70 MEM
bers now, nearly Is of these are from
the Boys and Girls schools. We have
the envelopesystem and it works well.
Last Sunday, on roll 102 we had a
collection of S1.O5 this is outside of
the rs Million. Campaign. We think
that is fine, considering the extreme
poverty of our people here.
Shall I write you the average wage
of a workman? 1912 per month is
fair pay. One of our preachers salary
in On Pc is S22 per month, that is
$11 in U. S. A. money. Out of this he
provides for his wife and four chill
dren. How can he do it, / don't know.
They only exist. The two eldest sons
are in our boys and girls school here,
the eldest one is a pupil-scholar,
teaching half a day and studying the
other half, he gets So per month for
his help, and that is scarcely sufi-
Gent for his rice. These two lads are
so emaciated. l will try some day to
take their photo and send it to you.
Most of our scholars are so slim and
thin. "Underfed" 1 can hear you say.
Yes, and that is the usual sight
among these poor people. Yet, out of
their poverty they are willingly Civ
ing their mite. We are having a "Giv-
ing" Christmas again this year, help
ing our orphans and the lepers. Last
year the extra collection was over
SIS. We hope for at least that much
this year.
We are charging the chapel, it's
too small to hold all who come to hear
the Gospel Message. Our Boys school
is too small. We are looking for a
larger building. The Girls school is
having an extra room added for our
kindergarten. l wish you could hear
our school boys take part in our Sat-
urday night Prayer Meetings, also
leading in turn, as some have a Sun
day school class on the Lords day,
teaching the smaller boys. The work
is encouraging. We are cheered. God
is good to US. Praise His name. Mr..
Snuggs writes: "Work is progressing
in the outstations. It's healthy. Yet
with all this, the masses are still I'm
touched by the Gospel Story. The