Southern Presbyterian Mission, 

 Kiangyin, China. 



Feb. 1 6, 191 6. 



I wish you knew what a wave of sympathy 

 and prayer was stirred in all of our hearts by 

 your cable message four days ago. From the 

 hour we received it there has been constant 

 remembrance of Mrs. Sprunt and yourself. 

 At noon every day the whole station meets for 

 prayer, and at that time you are lovingly held 

 up to God and in our private prayers regu- 

 larly. The cablegram reached us on Satur- 

 day and all of us were touched deeply that 

 you should have thought to reach out to us, 

 half around the globe, to bring us, too, within 

 the circle of prayer that we know is going up 

 from the host that love you both. On Sun- 

 day morning at church Mr. Moffett told the 

 congregation of your message asking for 

 prayer; that it had brought the ends of the 

 earth close together, of your faith in prayer, 

 and that you wanted the prayers of your 

 Chinese fellow-believers. He then called 

 upon a deacon and an elder to lead in a peti- 

 tion for Mrs. Sprunt and yourself. The 

 elder is a college graduate and principal of the 

 James Sprunt Academy. He thanked God 

 that, though we were so far distant and could 

 not show our hearts to you nor do anything 

 for you, yet we were close together in prayer. 

 He asked for God's blessing upon Mrs. 



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