Story of its Work During 1920:
Girls in Misery Rescued and Cared for The annual report of the activities of the Door of Hope has now been issued, and it gives an admire able account of the rescue work accomplished. In one of the opening paragraphs it says:—"gin in all its exceeding sinfulness surges past our Keceiving Home door on Foochow Road every day and every night. Up and down it passes, dressed in silk and gaudy trappings, or showing itself; in rags, dirt, and disease; and every day the passing stream washed up, into our very doors, some who have been so badly stung" that in desperation they seek some relief, if haply they may find it, in the Door of Hope, which they hear of as a place of good deeds. This past year has placed on our record book many more ead stories, some of which we dare not tell you, but the sting of them has been endured by the tellers, and they are young girls, young women, and even little children."
"Pwice during this year," it; saya, "have we had the joy of seeing a little band of our girls con-; fess their faith in Christ by baptism, and quite a number more have asked to do so, but we never IF them take this step lightly, and keep them back until we are sure thet they understand the pane of it.
"From the First Year Home comes this report—and herein we see the sin and the grace side by side. During this year we have received 61 new girls, and we praise God for every one of them. Hard cases, yes, but always and for all there is the grace sufficient. Sixty-one new girls, so different in disposition, but all alike in their sinfulness, and desperate need.
"One of the lovely things we see there, is a number of bright, capable girls who are now working as pupil teachers. They are our own girls, and have—through the kind help of friends in the homelands—been able to go away for a few years to other schools for more education than we can give; now they have come back to serve For awhile, and right well they do it7
Cases or Musery.
Among the instances given is that of a girl who was kidnapped from her home at the age of 17 and sold into "one of the many infamous houses in Shanghai." Being unable to sing and not brilliant enough to please her owner she was subjected to a series of beatings and had her food reduced to the smallest amount possible. When found by the police, her body was covered with bruises, her poor thin face badly scarred by the lighted end of a cigarette, and she was chained to a stool by means of an iron chain attached to her write.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.