Life and light for woman . lanted them on Ruk. The otherfour children had wakened and were all up ; so v\^hen I decided that I mustgo, the mother called a native boy and gave the baby to him, and father,mother, and all four children accompanied me home. How Miss Foss andI laughed after they were gone, about my going to see a dying baby, andthe whole family escorting me home and leaving the baby for a native totake care of. They afterwards went up into the saloon, and we heard themgo home after eleven oclock. The next day I saw the mother, and she saidthe baby was all right; that it had a boil
Life and light for woman . lanted them on Ruk. The otherfour children had wakened and were all up ; so v\^hen I decided that I mustgo, the mother called a native boy and gave the baby to him, and father,mother, and all four children accompanied me home. How Miss Foss andI laughed after they were gone, about my going to see a dying baby, andthe whole family escorting me home and leaving the baby for a native totake care of. They afterwards went up into the saloon, and we heard themgo home after eleven oclock. The next day I saw the mother, and she saidthe baby was all right; that it had a boil which had caused tlie fever. Ourschooner came Sunday morning, and we were not sorry on Monday to bidfarewell to Ponape and all its sorrows, and sail away for our own dear Ruk. The shepherd thinks of the straying, Far off on the distant hill;He hears where the lambs are bleating, And lovingly seeks them purpose of love is purposed, As open the fold-gates swing:I have other sheep, he whispers; Them also I must ~ To give hgbt/ to them tbal sit/ in darKi?ess *<-»««=;- IN A CHINESE VILLAGE. BY MISS ABBY G. CHAPIN. (Abridged.) To Christian Endeavorers : Chow-nai-nai, who is one of our Biblewomen, and I have come out to this village for a couple of weeks work. As this is the first time any lady has been here except for a days work,and as the native preacher who is stationed here is unfortunately an unmar-ried man, which debars him from such work, there has been little doneamong the women of the place, yet there are several who number themselves^mong the little company of Christians here. I wonder what some of your questions would be. Where do we two rooms of a brick and mud house, one storied, damp earth floor,papered windowed ; but the walls have been freshly papered with whitepaper for our sakes, and a new mat put on the mud kang or platform, wherewe sit in the daytime and spread our quilts to sleep at night. One room weuse to keep our things and to ea
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