Seeing the King.
" You shall all see the King of England," rashly promised a missionary in China before ho and his family started home on furlough. How excited the children were, and how greatly worried was their rash father when ho reached England and found out how hard it would bo to keep his word! " You promised, Daddy," was all the children would say, looking at him with trustful eyes. So, driven into a corner, the missionary at last went to the Palace and spoke to the Lord Chamberlain. " Could he say just when the King would next be driving out of the gate ? They would all be there to wave and to look. They came from far-away China." A very kind letter was received by the missionary a day or two after his call, asking him to bring his little flock to the Palace at a time when they would be able to see the King. The party called at the appointed time, and in a fine room they waited. By and by King George came in, and chatted with them all with the greatest simplicity, interest, and kindness. They have a memory for a lifetime.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21165, 23 April 1932, Page 4 (Supplement)
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