The Spirit of missions . red, and feel itla dignity. In return, they know theymust be obedient, respectful and orderly. A visit to a Junior Auxiliary meetingwould reveal much of interest. Fortychildren sitting on the floor in a roomnone too large means some youngest and smallest sit in front,and, from the small boy absorbed inmaking the most awful faces, and un-conscious of his surroundings, to thethree-year-old niece violently resistingthe efforts of her six-year-old aunt to 100 Tlie Children of the March Wind wipe her nose, tliere are various studiesin real life. In connection
The Spirit of missions . red, and feel itla dignity. In return, they know theymust be obedient, respectful and orderly. A visit to a Junior Auxiliary meetingwould reveal much of interest. Fortychildren sitting on the floor in a roomnone too large means some youngest and smallest sit in front,and, from the small boy absorbed inmaking the most awful faces, and un-conscious of his surroundings, to thethree-year-old niece violently resistingthe efforts of her six-year-old aunt to 100 Tlie Children of the March Wind wipe her nose, tliere are various studiesin real life. In connection witih tihethree-yeiar-old, one recalls a few dayssince seeing her at play with a hatchof mud pies. When they were finished,she rose solemnly, closed her eyes, andsaid, 0 ina/ri suru yo (Let us pray)!Then she mumbled an imitation bless-ing, followed by a prolonged Amen,during which she was looking out of thecorner of an eye. If you think of it,that little scene speaks volumes not onlyfor the future, but the present of the. LEARNING TO WRITE IN JAPANESEIS NO HOLIDAY TASK Church in Japan. So, though the lit-tle three-year-old may eat the rice pastewhen no one is looking, while theJuniors lare making a scrap-book, mus-ing them in irritation to suggest herresign;ation, still she is hopeful, too. Back of the very small tots sit ithewee maidens who are sweetest of are shy little things, and one in-stinctively softens the voice in speakingto them. They sing prettily—^and thepicture shows four of them singingSleep, Holy Babe! The big boys are always to be reliedupon for doing things in the way of map-drawing, composition writing, reci-tations, etc., and are looked up to ac-cordingly by the others. The big girls are the most influencedby it all. They are willing to learn, sopatient with the little ones, so eager todo what they can. Life begins in ear-nest at an early age for many of them,and to care and pain they are notstrangers. One face looms out amongthe others of a girl o
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