flDtss Susie X. IRawson. 
 
 I can not give Miss Rawson’s birth-place, ex¬ 
 cept that it was in Ohio. Her childhood years 
 were spent in this State and Pennsylvania. 
 When but a child her family moved to Akron, 
 Ohio, where several years of her life were spent. 
 The family were members of theM. E. Church, 
 and it was here that Miss Susie first heard C. 
 H. Yatman, the great M. E. revivalist, a man 
 especially interested in missions. When Mr. 
 Yatman held revival services in Cleveland, in 
 the fall of 1898, Miss Rawson went to hear him 
 and to tell him that “the hope begotten under 
 his preaching in the year 1890 was about to be 
 realized, and that she was at last really going 
 to the foreign field” With this object in view, 
 she entered Hiram College in the spring of 1893, 
 having previously connected herself with the 
 Second Christian church in Akron, In the fall 
 of 1893 Miss Graybiel became Lady Principal of 
 the college for one year, and who shall say that 
 that one year’s companionship between teacher 
 and pupil may not have turned her thoughts 
 toward India as a possible field for service? 
 
 The succeeding five years were years of hero¬ 
 ic preparation; aided by a member of her home 
 church who thoroughly believed in her, Miss 
 Rawson labored untiringly, in term time and 
 in vacation, to make her way through college. 
 Vacations were given to labor, and when, in 
 June, 1898, she closed her study in the college, 
 she was much exhausted. She was needed in 
 Mahoba even then, but Miss Graybiel said; 
 
“The Dew teacher must have some knowledge 
 of kindergarten work.” It was made possible 
 for her to spend her last year of preparation in 
 Cleveland, where she took certain studies in 
 the kindergarten college and carried on her 
 music, which is so helpful to mission work 
 everywhere. Her practice in Hiram House 
 Kindergarten was of great value to her, and 
 her year in Cleveland greatly perfected her for 
 service. She sailed from New York on October 
 21, 1899, a well-equipped teacher, ready to re¬ 
 lieve the weary workers in Mahoba, and very 
 happy to be about her “Master’s business.” 
 From a letter written by her from Bombay, 
 December 8, I quote these words: “My happi¬ 
 ness is great because my feet at last are firmly 
 ifianted on the soil of India, the land of my 
 adoption, My heart goes out to this land as it 
 never went out to the home land, and I have a 
 feeling that I am at home as I have never been 
 before.” Miss Graybiel, in a letter from Maho¬ 
 ba, dated December 14, says: “I want to say 
 to you that Susie meets every hope I have had 
 in her. She fits into her place among us to a 
 nicety. You shall have joy in her, I am as¬ 
 sured, and in her work, as the years go by.” 
 If the worker and the work fit each other, what 
 more can be desired? Mrs. H. Gerould. 
 
 Cleveland , Ohio. 
 
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