. Missionary Visitor, The (1916) . Iiiao Chou Girls School. X Miss Kao, Teacher. THE SPIRITUAL LIFE IN THE SHU HSIEN SCHOOL Minerva Metzger. ONE of the most satisfying re-sults of our efforts is the atmos-phere of happy childhood whichpermeates the school. When the Lordwas on earth He said, Let the littleones come unto Me. And as they cameHe put out His hand and lovinglytouched and blessed them. How happythose children must have been, to have had His hands placed upon their headsand to have heard His kind voice biddingthem come to Him! Surely it must bejust this touch from above that remakesan
. Missionary Visitor, The (1916) . Iiiao Chou Girls School. X Miss Kao, Teacher. THE SPIRITUAL LIFE IN THE SHU HSIEN SCHOOL Minerva Metzger. ONE of the most satisfying re-sults of our efforts is the atmos-phere of happy childhood whichpermeates the school. When the Lordwas on earth He said, Let the littleones come unto Me. And as they cameHe put out His hand and lovinglytouched and blessed them. How happythose children must have been, to have had His hands placed upon their headsand to have heard His kind voice biddingthem come to Him! Surely it must bejust this touch from above that remakesand fills with happiness the lives of theheathen children as they spend theirtime in the Christians schools. Onecan pick out these little ones by the ex-pression on their faces, and the joyous September1916 The Missionary Visitor 301. Ping: Ting- Hsien School to right: Hsi Li, La Ti, Jou Nai. light in their eyes. One girl had such anold and pinched face when she came tous a little over two years ago, but nowshe smiles and sings, and is happy thewhole day long. She knows most of thestones of the Gospels, Genesis and Ex-odus. After the Chinese Xew Year two sis-ters came from one of our three days they became veryhomesick and no one could pacify day the father came to see themand made arrangements to take themhome to the grandmother who had caredfor them ever since their mothersdeath. When I returned to the class-room, where nine of the smaller girlswere waiting for their music lesson,they asked, Are they going ? I said,f Yes, there is nothing else to do, theyare so homesick. They answered, Oh, yes, there is, we can pray forthem. Then we bowed our headswhile these trusting little ones poured out their hearts to God, pleadingfor Him to keep the girls hereand to forgive them for wa
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