Nathan Sites; an epic of the East . ssion Board a contribution ofthree or four hundred dollars. Some years later,however, they heard a pathetic appeal from , of the Foochow mission. He pleadedfor funds for the erection of a girls school. Our preaching, because of native customs,has to be to men, he said, and only now andthen does a woman dare venture within the soundof the gospel. The Baltimore ladies responded at once and re-solved to raise within the year two thousand fivehundred dollars for the erection of a schoolbuilding, and later to assume the support of theschool. Soon afte
Nathan Sites; an epic of the East . ssion Board a contribution ofthree or four hundred dollars. Some years later,however, they heard a pathetic appeal from , of the Foochow mission. He pleadedfor funds for the erection of a girls school. Our preaching, because of native customs,has to be to men, he said, and only now andthen does a woman dare venture within the soundof the gospel. The Baltimore ladies responded at once and re-solved to raise within the year two thousand fivehundred dollars for the erection of a schoolbuilding, and later to assume the support of theschool. Soon after this two sisters, the MissesWoolston, were sent out to superintend the newenterprise for teaching girls in Foochow. After ten years of service, in 1868, the MissesWoolston went home on furlough, and for threeyears the conduct of the school devolved upon brought the girls school work more espe-cially into the range of Mr. Sites active interest,and he gave it his best thought. In this, as in all his mission work, he made it. Where East and West ^leet.
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