. The Millions 1914 . ay last,have proved satisfactory, and are continuing stead-fast. We hope and expect that there will be manymore ready for baptism this spring. During the past three weeks, we have had stayinghere, about one hundred and fifty women and men,mostly from the country districts. It is a slack timewith the farmer class, from which most of our mem-bers and adherents come. We, therefore, invited in-quirers from some of the out-stations to come in forfurther teaching. It was an interesting sight to seethese people coming in from their country homes,some on donkeys, and some on barr
. The Millions 1914 . ay last,have proved satisfactory, and are continuing stead-fast. We hope and expect that there will be manymore ready for baptism this spring. During the past three weeks, we have had stayinghere, about one hundred and fifty women and men,mostly from the country districts. It is a slack timewith the farmer class, from which most of our mem-bers and adherents come. We, therefore, invited in-quirers from some of the out-stations to come in forfurther teaching. It was an interesting sight to seethese people coming in from their country homes,some on donkeys, and some on barrows, with theirbundles of fuel and food; others walking quite longdistances with their little bundles. The hearty greet-ings and smiling faces told us that they were pleasedto come, and expected to have a good time. I be-lieve it has been a blessed time for many of those of our home people who could read wererequisitioned to teach. It has indeed been a verybusy time, especially as it was Chinese New Year, and. SOMK CAME ON NARROWS [IKK THIS we had daily New Year callers. It rejoiced our heartsto see the men and women so eager to learn. It wasvery pathetic to see old women of between sixty andseventy years of age laboriously trying to mastercharacters, in order that they might read the unflagging zeal they would sit from early morn-ing until dusk learning perhaps only one page orless, per day. Then, at night, after they had retired,one could hear them repeating in the dark what theyhad learned during the day. In the afternoons,classes were conducted for the women, and the evan-gelist had meetings for the men. In the evenings,we had united meetings in the church. One of ourinquirers is an old woman who sells little cakes on astall at the adjacent city gate. She opens shop onSundays, and evidently does no small amount oftrade on that day. Sunday trade is a real trouble to her soul, and so she wonders if she can meet thedifficulty by paying another old woman to
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