Nathan Sites; an epic of the East . Where East and West ^ Crooning the Classics. THE GIRLS DRILL GROUND 111 his care to keep in touch with the feelings of theChinese and especially to know what the preacherswere thinking. He advised me first to invite allthe preachers to the annual closing were their wonder and delight to see thegirls point out on wall maps the various nationsof the strange barbarian world. The preachers were pleased, and full of praisefor the work of the Misses Woolston. These de-voted ladies had opened their school with one littlegirl; after two weeks s
Nathan Sites; an epic of the East . Where East and West ^ Crooning the Classics. THE GIRLS DRILL GROUND 111 his care to keep in touch with the feelings of theChinese and especially to know what the preacherswere thinking. He advised me first to invite allthe preachers to the annual closing were their wonder and delight to see thegirls point out on wall maps the various nationsof the strange barbarian world. The preachers were pleased, and full of praisefor the work of the Misses Woolston. These de-voted ladies had opened their school with one littlegirl; after two weeks six more came, of whom fourwere soon taken home again. It was the very be-ginning, and they had to convince China that itwas worth while to teach their girls. But nowafter ten years of development, the preachersideals had outrun those of their teachers. Geog-raphy and numbers and the Bible in the colloquial—yes, so far so good. But something was want-ing. Their girls must study the language of theirclassics! Now this, from the orthodox Chinese point ofview,
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