Show TEL S or IVI IN OUR interesting letter from J deio hansen to reaper editor gi gives es inside of controvert Cont rovers the following letter will vill undoubted 1 ly anten at all our readers reader 20 montgomery terrace road sheffield england jul 19 1 1926 dear dr markus I 1 it is hard for one who has not bawn away awai from home for long to realize how a person can hunger for news of his home town and thomp with whom he so cloel a with 1 I am not an exception to the rule nil therefore at times I 1 have haie had a longing which would not have haie been satisfied to a great at least had it not been for the reaper arriving arming almot almost every week since I 1 left home so now for twenty months I 1 have always wa s welcomed ani and appreciated it far more corp than ever before durm during this time my and opportunities have varied much as do the experiences and opportunities of other upon arrival I 1 was as sent directly to scotland thare I 1 labored for over a ear most of the time in the city of glasgow scotland is a very pretty place and one where here there ts is much room for missionary work mainly out in the small towns and villages also up in the north where our missionaries been for years it seems ve e always have our grea greatest greated tet success in these thee sections for this reason and that ohp cities hive have been worked so much in times past pres talmage has a system of country work nork by which all of these villages and isolated isolate farm houses house s are reached and worked I 1 left scotland before the plan was adopted anti and so I 1 have much of this country work there in the cities there our best way to place the gospel before the people was at open air meetings so during the summer months month we took every advantage of the good weather and held a sometimes sometime we averaged a meeting a day but usually for every three gool days we had a week of rain since coming down to the sheffield conference lat Jan january uLry my companion and I 1 have spent much of our time out in the country districts there we have hae had a great many experiences v ach will make golden links in our chain of memories some of them exactly pleasant at the time but after we e were able to laugh at some and take leson lesions from others othen thus thu we profited by each one the timp time of one of our country trips was spent in anti and around scrooby the tow n from which the fathers left we visited the old manor house and the hou house houe e in which william Brew lived while he was post to james I 1 and queen elizabeth from 1594 to 1607 at pre present ent we are labo laboring ting in the little village of bakewell a quaint little place about half wiy way between haddon hall the place made famous by dorothy vernon vemon and chatsworth house houe the eat of the duke of devonshire round about here it is rather hilly and thus to a we westerner at least v very ery pretty it is really a part of the derbyshire moore and since many people come to spend their holiday hero hem it ts is rather a busy bu sy place it is nuite a change of subject to shift from the beauty of a country to th industrial situ situation at I 1 0 it I 1 but ut rip nover v e r th less since they are so closely as 0 foliated focia ted with each other I 1 believe it will be appropriate you heard that the st sanke ake was called off on may I 1 13 I 1 that was jut just the general strike the miners are still out nai and from the looks of things there will bee be no immediate settlement As a result practically all of the large works are closed and there are thousands of men out of work ork many of liuch hardly knew where they were to get their next net meal while working so GO what it is with them now one can hardly imag me since the first two weeks of this trouble many of the children in some of these thee mining towns hav received a meal at school day to help them out this is done by public subscription now to mike make matters matter worse th ahr union have run out of nione gonei anti and anere will lie be no unemployment money fol foi the men it has been estimated that it is costing the country per day almost as much a as it cost them during the war but aside from all ive witnessed ind and vahie hile laboring in this country ive found and had it very well ell imprE tseu ca uron upon my mind that indeed there i is no place ilk like home therefore Th for the success and nd of our home town paper and our community I 1 remain very verv sincerely J deloy hansn Har tsAn |