Our Yencheng School by J. J. Westrup

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Dec 16, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 48.

Our Yencheng School

By J. J. Westrup

OUR foreign houses and schools will soon be ready. I have lived in one room through the heat of July and August, and it was really comfortable. We had a good breeze most of the time. For about a week, I felt the oppressiveness of the heat. The rest of the time, I really enjoyed the heat more than I enjoy the cold that we have now. From about the fifteenth to the twentieth of August the thermometer stood at 99 in my room, but after that a cold wind from the north brought it down to 64, and it has been there ever since. It has been cloudy for a long time, but the Lord has kept back the rain, and we have the roof on one schoolhouse, and the other will be on to-day or to-morrow. I shall be glad when the building work is done, for it is extremely trying.

Just received a letter from the consul, forbidding us to travel in Honan, as the country has no protection and is full of robbers — all the poor turn robbers — and the farmers and the rich people have suffered terribly, both this year and last. The robbers have come very near Yencheng sometimes, but the Lord has kept them away.

J. J. WESTRUP.