The Spirit of missions . ion of the vil- lage girls till we had twenty-five mem-bers. When they became too old to goto the school, they still came to ourmeetings regularly, and were alwaysgathered around the door before the ap-pointed time. As the years passed andthey had their own houses and children,they asked me to let them do the workat home, and very often made additionalgifts of little boots and mittens. The largest sum we earned by allthis voluntary work was $38, which wesent to Bishop Van Buren for PortoRico in 1902. Each year in Lent wetook out the six weeks sewing for theSunday-schoo
The Spirit of missions . ion of the vil- lage girls till we had twenty-five mem-bers. When they became too old to goto the school, they still came to ourmeetings regularly, and were alwaysgathered around the door before the ap-pointed time. As the years passed andthey had their own houses and children,they asked me to let them do the workat home, and very often made additionalgifts of little boots and mittens. The largest sum we earned by allthis voluntary work was $38, which wesent to Bishop Van Buren for PortoRico in 1902. Each year in Lent wetook out the six weeks sewing for theSunday-school Easter Offering, and thisthe girls liked themselves to put on thealms basin. Not the money, that had tobe obtained by sales later, but the verybundle of dolls clothes, a unique offer-ing for the altar! The boys under Mr. Chapmans super-vision did their share, too. With theirpenknives they whittled from sprucewood little models of all the tools in useat Anvik, and sets of saved what they could from (119). (120) I Trouble Them Too Much 121 special jobs for which they were paidin coin, and showed the same eager in-terest land deldg-ht in their earnings landofferings. They fully understood how otherJuniors helped them by their gifts, andhow they sent to Anvik the presents for the Ohristmas-tree festival each think our boys and girls were muchpleased that others should in turn behelped by their efforts. There were ^al-ways happy times at our meetings, andthey are among my happiest recollec-tions of the days spent in Anvik. I TROUBLE THEM TOO MUCH BY W. H. JEFFERYS, IN a small village not far from thecity of Shanghai there lives aschool boy, nicknamed Didi, whichmeans Little Brother.^ As is theway with Chinese boys, he has morerelatives than you migiht count upon acentipedes fingers, let alone your are mostly village folk, farmers bytrade, and poor, indeed, as compared withour common notion of farmers. But,perhaps, the very poorest of all is agr
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