Talk on China

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6810, 17 March 1932, Page 2

Talk on China

There was a good attendance at St. Andrew’s Church last night, when Miss Frances G. Ogilvie, 8.A., gave a most interesting talk upon the people and the customs of China. A striking foaturo of tho gathering was tho large number of children who attonded, and Miss Ogilvie was listened to with rapt attention by young and old. Her simple narrative of life as she found it amongst the Chinese was moro illuminating than a more pretontious method of treatment. She dealt particularly with tho work that she and Miss Netta Yansen have been carrying on for some years, viz., a Christian boarding school at Kong Chuen, near Canton. There some 70 girls were in residence. Some came merely to get a good education, come to learn practical housocraft, some to learn about Jesus, and again some becauso there was no religious compulsion nor obligation to be a follower of Jesus. By several personal anecdotes she told how, nevertheless, the girls were being wonderfully influenced and brought into a very real and definite personal relationship with the Master. Rev. G. T. Brown, M.A., who occupied the chair, said that the best vote of thanks Miss Ogilvie could have re-

ceived was the breathless and unbroken attention she had received, even from her youngest listener. At the conclusion quite a number of both young and old gathered around the speaker to hear more, and listened to an explanation of several interesting charts, pictures, etc., that had been hung around the building.