Life and light for woman . next hope for the nightschool is a chapel and readingroom, with plenty of goodbooks and magazines, and agymnasium of some sort, anda room where they can havesome games and fun. Thereare thousands of these youngmen in Matsuyama alone towhom no inspiration toward a 1 1 1 Tr 1 T_ MISS TUDSON, WITH HER ASSISTANTS pure and noble life has been • given, nor any opportunity to live such a life. What chance is there forthem, if when they are compelled, after leaving the primary school, towork all day amid a constant play of vile talk and jokes, there is nothingfor them at nig
Life and light for woman . next hope for the nightschool is a chapel and readingroom, with plenty of goodbooks and magazines, and agymnasium of some sort, anda room where they can havesome games and fun. Thereare thousands of these youngmen in Matsuyama alone towhom no inspiration toward a 1 1 1 Tr 1 T_ MISS TUDSON, WITH HER ASSISTANTS pure and noble life has been • given, nor any opportunity to live such a life. What chance is there forthem, if when they are compelled, after leaving the primary school, towork all day amid a constant play of vile talk and jokes, there is nothingfor them at night but noisy homes where the same talk prevails, or, foramusement, the streets with all their temptations, or the theatre and worse?The night school is a door through which they pass into a new land whereChrist is Teacher, and knowledge and pure delights beckon them, and theysuddenly discover that they are called to be more than beasts—that theyare called to walk with Christ, and that he will lead them up, up, 534 Life and Light \_Deceinber No wonder they love the night scliool, and desire no vacations, even duringthe summer. Please pray that the night school shall guide them straight up on theroad to heaven, and shall make of them genuine and burning Christians,like Peter and John, who were only fishermen. What may not one ofthese lives Even a book sometimes awakens a soul—what may not these strong young men do for work-ingmen, when he himself has been set onfire by the Holy Spirit. Please join mein prayer that God will raise up, out ofthis school, a Paul, to also work with hishands and preach the gospel. In the girls school, t!n-ee have openlyconfessed their faith and expressed theirdesire to be received into the Church ofChrist. We put them off also until thefall, that during the summer vacation theymay seek to win their relatives consent,^but they have taken the pledge of theactive members in the Christian EndeavorSociety. They are in the third-yea
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