Missionaries Ghastly. Stories of Suffering During Three Crop Failures What foreign missionaries are doing in famine relief work all the time in China is illustrated through accounts given by Mr. J. H. N. Robinson, of the China Inland Mission, ' who for the past eight years has been stationed in Tsungyi, Kueichow, a province which during that time has been visited by three severe famines, Mr, Robinson, with his wife and three small children, arrived in Shanghai on Saturday and will leave for a holiday at Home at the end of the week.
Tsungyi the second largest city in the province, lies about ten days inland from Chungking, according to Mr, Robinson. During the famine of last winter, following a season of bad crops, as many as 50 people died in a single day. So serious was ithe situation that something had to be done, and foreign mission workers who the year before had opened a temple to house about 200 women and children from surrounding districts, enlisted the help of merchants of the place to obtain another temple for the same purpose, It had been the intention of Mr. Robinson and his small group of workers to establish an orphanage for those children.whose parents had succumbed during the famine. In a short while it became evident that the work would have to be expanded to include young girls, who as prospective brides found themselves in the predicament of having no shelter, The families of their prospective husbands did not want take them into their houses when famine conditions were rampant, nor could the parents of the girls {feed them in their own homes when there was a chance that they could be fed elsewhere. Some 60 of these girls found refuge in the improvised orphanage, and entered into the curriculum of daily duties and education on a small but practical scale which had been established.
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