Nurse Austen was busy, exhausted and not feeling too well that winter.She could have written just ordinary routine notes of acknowledgement.But_that_was_not_her_way.She sat down and wrote the woman in Toronto a real letter telling all about the village, ted gloves and caps, and what they said when they got them,and how they looked when they wore them.She wanted the woman who had knitted and sent all those lovely knittings “to see how much happiness and warmth she had created”.Not long after,she received the following answer from Canada.
Dear Miss Austen:rse I cannot write this, so my daughterinlaw is doing it for me.She also sewed the seams and made the buttonholes for the knitted things.
I know something of the work you are doing.At the age of nineteen I married a man who was going to China to be a missionary(传教士).For forty years, o the States where he took charge of a settlement house in Brooklyn, New York.A surprising number of the problems we faced there were similar to the problems we had met in China.When my husband died, I came to Toronto to live with my son and daughterinlaw.They are very good to me, and I pride myself that I am little trouble to them, though it is hard for a blind old lady to be sure of anything.
What I most want to say,my dear, is this.For sixty years I have been making up missionary packages of such clothing or food or medicine or books as I could collect.In various parts of the world and to various parts of the world I have sent them.Sometimes I have received a printed note of acknowledgement from the headquarters depot or mission board, sometimes nothing.Occasionally I have been informed that my contribution was planned for Syria or Armenia or the upper Yangtze.But never before in all that time have I had a personal letter picturing the village and telling me who is wearing the clothing and what they said.I did not suppose that ever in my lifetime I should receive a letter like that.May God bless you.
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