. Christian herald. many sections,and at one time not long ago there were as many as six thousand people feddaily at Tsingkiangpu, the Protestant missionaries doing their full share of thework. One of the photographs shows a group of women coming to the roof-house of the Mission for food. The portion given to each was about half apound of rice daily, which, boiled until fully swelled, was sufficient to preventstarvation, ilissionary Schlosser writes that during the last winter womencame regularly to the mission roof-house for their daily rationsandthat there have been at all times lately a few
. Christian herald. many sections,and at one time not long ago there were as many as six thousand people feddaily at Tsingkiangpu, the Protestant missionaries doing their full share of thework. One of the photographs shows a group of women coming to the roof-house of the Mission for food. The portion given to each was about half apound of rice daily, which, boiled until fully swelled, was sufficient to preventstarvation, ilissionary Schlosser writes that during the last winter womencame regularly to the mission roof-house for their daily rationsandthat there have been at all times lately a few thousand destitute persons around the popula-tion of Tsing-k i a n gp u isabout 250, The Chris-tian Herald0 r p h a n agethere, a con-siderable num-ber of boys andgirls areclothed, fedand educatedby the gener-osity of ourreaders. Someof the orphansare seen in thephotographson this arebright chil-dren. active,docile, and full DESTITUTE NATIVES APPEALING FOR FOOD AT THE TSINGKIANGPU MISSION. Wn^ MISSION WORKKRS AND CHILDREN AT of promise. The mis-sionary sent other pho-tographs which our spacelimitations do not per-mit to appear here, show-ing how these little oneslooked when they firstcame to the depicts a little girlclothed in rags, tied to-gether with strings. Suchhas been the transforma-tion that no one wouldknow her now. She is,however, in one of thegroups which we print,and is ranked among thebrightest of all the girlsin the orphanage. Another picture shownby Mr. Schlosser wasthat of a group of aboutthirty children—boys andgirls—a little, raggedycompany—all of whomare now happy pupils inthe orphanage. Our difficulties hereare many, writes , and the la-borers are few; but wehave the blessing of theLord with us in thework. The results of thepresent war have dis-tressed us somewhat atour station; but still wesee the hand of God inprotecting the place dur-ing the weeks while we were compelled to leave and
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