hills, and walking up, we reached the second village. There was a fine group of young Christians singing a welcome to us as we came up. After lunch Mrs. Prior opened her medicine bag and started in on the poor people, who very quickly gathered. She treated eyes and gave out quinine for some time. Miss Clark played her Victrola to a spellbound audience. We then had a short meeting, Kunanga leading.

"The next village was not far, but we had to walk most of the way, as it was uphill; the hillside was thickly wooded and all sorts of flowers were growing by the side of the road. When we were nearly at the top girls ran up showering us with leaves. They seemed so happy to see us. The people in this village were very fine and we had a good meeting, the Victrola again proving helpful.

"At Kalunda a large group greeted us with singing as we came up the hill, and we were shown to our houses, the regular homes of the Christianstwo-roomed adobe buildings with thatched roofs. After supper the villagers gathered for evening prayers. During the meeting we felt that we certainly could get to sleep very quickly after our strenuous day, but on coming back to our houses, we discovered that we were not to be alone all night; when Miss Clark opened our door she saw three good-sized rats in the room. When you are camping a mosquito net is a mighty handy and comforting thing. It is good to feel that at least the rats cannot run over your face.

"Before the morning service next day fifteen hundred people had gathered from the villages round about. A dozen boys from the Institute came and sang, and our Dondi organist was there with his little portable organ. Forty-five new Christians were baptized and received into membership. It was all very simple and beautifully reverent.

"In the afternoon Miss Dibble, with a basin and some eyewash, looked after eye patients; Mr. and Mrs. Prior cleansed and salved and bandaged soresthe most terrible sores you can imagine! One dear little baby did not cry a bit while they were working over him. He would just say, 'Mother, it hurts.' The Priors worked till dark. After we went to bed we could hear drumming from the heathen village nearby and the people shouting. Our boys were in a house just below and they sang and sang all the hymns they knew."

REV. HENRY H. RIGGS IS BACK AT WORK IN BEIRUT AMONG THE REFUGEES

"Friends had succeeded in securing for us the house we had asked for, so we were able to move into our own home at once after arrival. It is in the beautiful section of Beirut where the American University is located, and many of our immediate neighbors are Americans. Beirut juts out into the sea, so that to the north and west we are hardly a half mile from shore, and not much farther than that to the south; to the east we look over the city itself to the range of the Lebanon Mountains, rising to a height of nine thousand feet.

"In the year since we left Beirut the Armenian

refugees have made some progress toward establishing themselves and earning their own living-but they are still refugees and a long way from a settled population. And deep suffering and misery is all too common. Houses, or even shacks, are hard to find, and the earning of the barest daily bread is a heartbreaking struggle.

"In their church life, too, these people need a lot of help. They have brought with them from their homes in Turkey a religious life that is wonderful, an inspiration and a rebuke to some of us who are more favored. But one of their problems is the language in which religious services should be held: most of the first refugees were Turkish-speaking Armenians and they urge the use of the Turkish, while their children and many others prefer the Armenian. A clear solution has not yet been found.

"We found Beirut in the clutches of an almost universal epidemic of Dengue Fever, and we had to take our turn at it. It is a miserable ailment, justifying its name of 'break-bone fever,' or the Arabic name, that means 'The Father of the Knees.' But beyond the aching bones and the weakness that follows it seems a rather harmless affliction."

MISS BERTHA REED OF PEKING SHOWS HOW MODERN ARE SOME OF THE PROBLEMS OF HER BIBLE SCHOOL STUDENTS

"One of our students is more advanced than some others in her class, and was discontented when she first came, wanting more high school work than we offer. After three or four weeks she came to a different state of mind, and in a meeting spoke to the school thus:

""I ought to have done better than most for I was brought up in a Christian home. My grandfather and my father were both earnest Christians, and we always had family prayers and a real Christian life in the home. I was very earnest about it then and wanted to work for God. Then I got old enough to come to Peking to school and went through the junior academy. In the last years there I came in contact with students who did not care about Christianity. Some of them laughed at it and criticized, and many who did care for it did not dare show it. So I grew very cold, and when I went home my father was very much displeased and asked what he had sent me to school for if I had changed like that.

me.

"I was very sad over his reproof, but still I could not seem to get back to what I was before. And then I came to this school, and you know how I was not happy and thought it was not suitable for But I have a friend who has kept telling me that I was not right; she said that I was putting myself first, when I ought to put God first. And now I have come to see it. I hope that I am going to get back again to the real spirit of love for God that I had when I was a child, and I am very happy over it. I want to go back and help the people of my village to understand more about God. I am very glad now that I am here, and I am very glad to be studying the Bible in this way.'"