To Their Mothers-in-Law
By Mimi Scharffenberg
A FEW days ago, there came into the house where I was visiting, a lady with two little girls of six and ten years. The mother said she wanted to believe, and attend the meetings oftener; but as it is a long distance to the church, she could not come evenings and leave the children at home alone. The little girls at once began to persuade their mother to go to church and take them along. They put their arms around her neck, and urged her to go, and begged for permission to go to school. The mother was very tender-hearted; but in Korean fashion, she told them that soon father would send them to their husbands' homes, and then they would get pretty colored skirts and jackets to wear, whereas if they went to school, they would have only white to wear. The little six-year-old said: "I do not care if I never get a colored skirt. I want to go to school." And the older girl cried because her father was planning to send her away to her mother-in-law. They kept teasing their mother to go to church, and now they come each Sabbath.