know something of the work you are doing. At the age of nineteen I arried a man who was going to China to be a missionary(传教士). For forty years, with an occasional year at home in America, we Worked in China, and during that time our two sons and a daughter were born to us, of whom only one son survives.After forty years, my husband's health began to fail. We returned to the States here 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 husbad died, I came to Toronto to live with my son and daughter-in-law. They are very good to me, and I pride myself that I am little trouble to the, 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 orld and to various parts of the world I have sent them.Sometimes I have receive 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 Arenia or the upper Yangtze. But never before in all that time have l had a personal letter pictuing the village and telling me who is wearing the clothing and what they said.I id not suppose that ever in my lifetime I should receive a letter like that.
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