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CHINESE DIAMONDS
rOR THE
KING OF KINGS
Chinese Diamonds
for the King of Kings
BY
ROSALIND GOFORTH
(MRS. JONATHAN GOPORTH)
" God hath made of me Blood all Mfn under Htami."
<pK
»V0,V|f;K",SMISSlONAKV.S(it;,trr
PUSLICATIONvS
fi^ « m C"NF £D^RATI(Wi LIFE BULOlMfi
I EVANGELICAL PUBLISHERS
I INGORrORATED^ ,
•M CollH. StTMt. Toronto. Ciud.
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Copyright 1920, bv
Evangelical Publishbrs
iNcoaroiATiD
PUBLISH MS, IMPOITUS AND DISTHIBUTOBS OP
SOUND CHRISTIAN LITERATURE
868 COIXBOB 8TB««T
TORONTO
r \NADA
FOREWORD
A]17*'^.^^ libraries have been written on Oh^i ♦
lifted out of the feaXi nit l^F ° * f^Jeemed soul-a soul
culties may occur a e«,»?tT.T" .^^^^^^f intellectual diffi-
isnotof th^lswo^S^ibfrrTsiS' '"""^"^ "'^'^ ' ''^^^ ^''-^
couS:S[ "I^pon ^Xm' TJI^ ' f ""^/ ^'?fi^^'^ ^^ had en-
There lived fnthri^Se" h^wJf 1 '™P''^"'°"
singularly beautiful charact^ wZ .rf ""r"**" °^"
■ng « .„y told by B,ZTb^^' ''^fZtXL'Z"'"'-,
nauirht It i7w?;?o* 1 • '^^Pe'ate, of them that are
after life verified the realifvnfS ^ fiflonfied ones whose
able to saveSo the utfemo^f wIST'^:? ''^"°^^- "^ '«
redemption. Go ye, tSeXt«id teU Hout''" " ^'^"^"*'"
(REV.) R. p. Mack AY. n. D.
INTRODUCTION
THE following sketches are as photographically true as
my knowledge of Chinese life and people can make
them. They are written primarily as an answer to the
oft met questions, "Do missions pay?" and, "After all are
there any real Christiani in China?" '
We missionaries ar frequently told that the average
church member at horat h 3 pome to think of missionari^'
letters as ' too dry to read. " Wherefore, my attempt to give
missionary facts in a different, possibly more readable, form
With what success remains to be seen. The little book is sent
torth with the earnest hope and prayer that those who read
these sketches may come to soo the truth of what Paul said-
Ood hath made of ONE BLOOD all men under heaven."
ROSALIND OOFORTH.
Kikungshan, South Honan, China,
July 24, 1920.
CONTENTS
SKETCH I.
AS SaVER IS REFINED -
Part i.-THE Birth of a Soul -
Part ^.-From Gleam to Glory
SKETCH n.
CHARACTERS FROM ONE VILLAGE
Part /.~Wang-ee - - . . .
Part ^.— Wangee's Neighbors
SKETCH HI.
THE MAN WHO PROVED GOD
SKETCH IV.
OPENING A NEW STATION
Part I.—Thb Missionary's Home -
Part ^.-As Rain from a Clear Sky
Part ^.-Sowing Before the Storm
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23
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36
37
39
SKETCH V.
TESTING GOD
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SKETCH VI.
A CHRISTIAN GENERAL - -
SKETCH VII.
A CHINESE NOBLEMAN -
MR. DOONG
SKETCH VIII.
SKETCH IX.
HEATHENISM AS I HAVE KNOWN IT
Part i.— Hbathbn versus Christian Worship
Part ;2.— Facts
SKETCH X.
THE BLIND FAMINE REFUGEE
SKETCH XI.
LINKS IN A LIVING CHAIN - . . .
SKETCH XII.
OUR FIRST WOMAN CONVERT-A MERE
MEMORY ^
SKETCH XIII.
TWO "RICE" CHRISTIANS .....
Por/ /.—Thb "Wolf Boy". - . . .
Part 2.—THZ Wolf Boy's Mother - -
SKETCH XIV.
DAYBREAK IN ONE HOME ....
Part 1.— LiTTtE Si,AVE -
Part 2.— Slave's Father -....'
Part 5.— Slave's Release - - . . .
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SKETCH I
As Silver Is Refined
Part 1: The Birth of a Soul.
Part 2: From Gleam to Glory.
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As Silver Is Refined
Part I. The B«TH OF A Soul.
One Hultry afternoon in June 19 at. -i^^-i
the IW'?Mti^-l ♦». ^''"'°« *"* ''*"ow down oppowte
♦K;-«r ""/*"*^" »ayuig. Honorable Lady, mv ehil.l in vorv
••mil ♦», tVi ?^ *^'i"'« ^*t«' a*id two bowls.
Wheel the child into the shade and rest vourse f " -ij
the woman as she Bllpti tha K««i« \u \^- ^""™*". said
opentrtKnvemtior '''" ^°'"^' '''' ^'"^^^ *»^ -«3^ «»'
•• Wh*?!l^".f ""^ "'i*'"^ *? *^« ^°^"8° *io«tor at W "
Well, replied the man, "all I can mv io thi. o • uu
"But, why then do people telk so?" persisted Mrs. Dwan.
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Chim»k Dumonos
erabi,. meuug. «„d ^aa wide y k,.o«n ! ^ '*^''*^°.*'' °^ coMwd-
lloctor though he had no knowledl wh.*^ -ought after aa a
»»'thotJsoltmuingtli8iM»ea nni«r ''*»»*«r«'" <>' Western
m the art of ' • needle prfS^' 2 r'*""^' ^"* ^*» *" «P«r
"ot infre„ueutly u.ed'^iith ffui r^X"" ^"^"'"^ "•*'"^'"«"'
'>'.1'-:«T;,«'Ji;r ^i',^ t'dVJ"-'''^^*^^^ •" ^'^ ^^-tanoe.
street fro... where hia ^ fe wa« 8^"";^ S*'"'**'^' ««'««» ^he
related what had juat paLL Th"*^n ?"'."« *'''° *•> b«r -he
"othing; paying no attenStn[hP'^'°5 '***«"^*^' »>ut said
m.«.io..arieH with which srendj^^.t?^^
through many year, of bitter ^Tn!^' "^ huaband had learnt
•ut act. When%rt° low^'^XSth'^'S ^^^'^ '"^ '"'^ ''"IJe
hi8 intention of taking the yoZer 7n to' t?"'/"'' *""°"°««J
to have a growth on hia foot removpyj ^? ^^^ »"''•''«" C)octor
Kan to storm and rage buUo , " m.rr;. '*'"""• *^"- '^^-n be-
ot interest to her neighbors trmihiTf' T""^*^ *« ^'^'^ matter
;««:«« to herself. HefTs of ten %'' *'*''* '''^"'^hol.l. an.l sick-
ta.ned that it is little wonder X^^n. '""''" ,? ^'°'^»t and sus-
a general collapse, when the n.l.?r«T "f "*^'^' '***^ *'*'' ^ay by
for days as helpl^ Z cfaUd ' ^^' '"'^''^ **onmn would lie
"e t^oo^^;:elft:ra;rt"t hi;;„t]""-' «-pitai. it wouu,
o|; doubt, but his intense curiosTtvt'""' ''"u ^' ^"^ ^'^'" ^^ar
about whom he had heard sucrconfltr ^^' ^^'^'^'^ ^^^'o'*
sire, If possible, to see wmethh./^??*'*'"*^ '"^P^'"*''' and a de-
overcame every'othe?thTghflwa?;^r''°^' '^ ''"'''^^^^'
Mission Hospital they found T>.r„. , :• ^° reaching the
crowd of sick and suiring onL pZ '\''^'^'' ^^ «
admission they joined themfelve« to ^h^lT"^ ^^^'^ ^'^^^^^^ of
ti.e Dispensary door Thrmoment fe^n "' '^^'''"^ ^^^a^ds
and his child, with a dozenrmor.^^i. ''■''" Z''""^' bin^elf
A« SiLv» u RMwwm 13
hud ffiven it Dr HI...1, .1. • V""*- *"« momoiit he
rorw.rd with .ueh VfrL„dir,S ''f J"" r"'""/'"' ™""-
thi. man', imoranw .nd f,?.ri ^■""•""'Jf «>»™b«mi that
«• h. hi,u*!lf h.d'nj'iyed ' '"''' °' ■ •■""•««" """h
ope^trS'ltlitirTtt'. "i "!' '?'■'» '°°' "»• « --P'«
nervouaiiesB, but a few unipt «r^l „ ^ J^*^ showed decided
wonder and admiratio'rXry detaU of^*h ^ '^ '''*''"-«
Dr. Blank saw thp m-n ' 1, ^^^ operation,
nected with the nosuhaTanH "*" '""^^^^^ '» everything con-
so that the father ^Sd be ;l^'h?°^'**.i°'' '^' "^'^ ^^ his lH>y
afternoon clinfe! a'.d Ird vbUa^^^l^ wV^'!:f '"«^ '•^•"- *»>«
day was over the miZ^l^ visitation. When the work of the
his atudyTn LI house rt^r^^r?^ '"^^*«^ ^' D^"' to
such times the^Sionart d-T- ^'"Pound- It was at
brother the way^rsKon °^'°'^ *° *•'' '^** ^^^o''^*^
to riLruntiilt ^^tttn^'r .^ "-" — <^
when Dr. Dwan spoke out sn^fni ^! **"''°« '" ^^e study
his mind : ^ * suddenly as if to get something off
before hl^t t «^Sr °' ""^"^ P"^^* ^^^"^^ —
"What can I do for you f'
strange1,^";7n ySTomt ^'^ould'v "^^^ ^^ ^^ ^-e
place?" J^ »rnome. would you allow me to see the
»/n^t^^co^J'X^„'•,'^,f«^^^^ « relieved «,„i,e
Th™,»b the bouae tbey w™Te.4"r^r,S^''SL^';«„':
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Chikbse Diamonds
a. well .. boyJ!;"r:' tt.J'leZS'Tr hf if""-?*
deeper impression on hifi m,«^ ir^ I* • .**® "^ °»«de a
he himself auietSe^eaS ^''^ 'n^ionary or even
Some days later when in eonversatinn «,i*i, , .
about you allT" ^°'' '""'"' "'"' f^P'" •« MJ-ing
you .™ doLnS,' r/SS' • "" ^°'' "^ -^^ -'» «» "'•'
heart/ ■ It i, like this, JesK^ktkft I? I?'""**? °' » '""
suffer and die for S—S^-^T 4 , '""h"™ m heaven to
that He has ^v^ tT^:7J',i.J'"'lZ'" """ "»*« Him do
that make, uf d^^TtS^ Sy^Se"' ' " " *- ^''^^
ChriJ^-i^^^iS-aX^Lrd,^?" following in Jesu,
follow ^m?,;^?.."'' '^" l-^Uy. "just that. WiU you
a JlJz^^s" ii^"-:,i'! -■ »-•» '- -
yes, I will, I will folW the Lord Jesus. ••
path would be t..'Tdr^M?^.!:r.?re?it^TAi^d'
Part II. From Gleam to Globt.
The Son of God goes forth to war
XT- f,"^*i^ ^'^^ to gain ;
mo^^n"^ ^^^^x^r «*^«"°« afar:
Who foUows m His train T
Who best can drink his cup of woe
Triumphant over pain, '
H.^fnfh* ^^ ^« ''"'^ below-
ile follows m His train. "
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As Silver is Rkpined jg
senues and stood bcftiw. thT^^ somewhat recovered her
pasted, p«p^ riht ''"'" °^'' '^•^^^^ '^' «^ was
they were mde ofpa^rT J? ?i 5*^!!*^''' '" **^ *^d«' (^o^
the eourt; heiSf for S 'an hour th^h'™^^ "''^"^ ^^^^
with intense ea^estn^^J th» i« ^^u'^X"^ ""^ preached
giving His Sonfo^e^ H?t Jn t''^,*^' ?^" '^™« «od i«
them before the crowd wh^whrJ'n''^^ ^'^^ «°^ *^<J burnt
with black looks'^JL>j'l?e" "" ''"' ^^P^"^' ^"*
andtethTl^^^^^^ -n. his neighboi.
wrui^^tsjsS^ ° n
that the t^eThldh^ltSt {T^^ T T" ^ outsiders-
certainly wreS their ve^re^^cf unl*".^- ^^'''i^' «^ ^^"W
paj^otrjart^Jr^r^^D^wir^^^^^ ^^ ^orel^ers,
had come out as a Christian onVnf?i; P""! "^y* "^^ a^ter he
^ughing a piece ottC]aLd^tl ?! I?"*? ' ^'^^ ^«« wa«
When crossiig the rai^ and S^nV/f ^ ""^.^^^^ (o'* °»«le8).
was blowing, the mln did nl ^^"^ ^/ * dust-storm which
and killed tth aSTak thol^ l'" ?' ^™'" ^^^^^^ struck
mained uninjured ^^ ^^^ *'^***»«« h'^ed man re-
nexr?o[alt£Tijrndr.^TDVrhaT^^^^ ^ ^^-'
a fine healthy child, he was thp nr m! ^^^-^^^ '"<''» treasure;
parents. Soon after thr^w! ^1® ''"I ^^^ ^^ ^oth grand-
-w Christian's faS.,*'thi:':hSdToit^^^^ *^ *^ '^^
ehaS^^^a^L^Va^^^^^^^^^^ son pur-
other animals it was dis«)vered to hi "^ ^.° P"* ^^h the
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Chinese Dumonds
that through it all Dr. Dwan 's fa 1 /n V^""^""^ ^" «fiven
When feeling the need of hi« i ^"^ "^^e'* flinched,
to hi8 friend the foreSS dS^tJr ^ ^""^ «?couragement. a visit
courage. But darkerXg^^"^' T^' ^«"ed to give frZ
needed all the helph^YeuZchr-':^^ ^'' ^^'°' a^dTsurdy
One day a deDnf«t!«t. ^ Christian could give
deavored to show th^m Lt! • ^ *?®"^ courteously and I?,
to such an objecT no?that he^wr^' ' ''7'' fo^Wm t ^^'j
True God. When S^Jwth'ZX?^'^ ***" ^"« Only and
not move him, thev left in ! ^^P^^ation saw that thev eouW
chose to go againXtlu/JhToeinr !,'"^°^^ that'^t
sequences. The price he haS to pay'^jh J!! "t^^'J^^^ the con!
,ln J^ ^'"^ i^y^ ^^ter the above twk niLl .k**?^ ^« «h»" «ee.
dogs were both found poiwued Thi rt'***^ ^"^^''^'^ ^^tch-
much upon these dogs for nSnt ; J ^^'""^^ depend very
everywhere in this if^d CL tWs oT/^ *^'Er' ^'h<> ^^e
on a system of petty thieving «/fu I^ *^^ neighbors carried
continued till w^thX a hortVi*^of l?-*^ ^^^
people, as is general in China workL It ^-^^l^- '^^^ ^^'a^e
operative plan, at least to ?h; extif ^u ^^"^ o° the^-
Property many neeessaiy farminJ i^nf '^^T^ «" «o™°»o»
pwan came to require th^e ^ i„ '^P^ements. When Dr.
fused. Patients ceased to?om? a^d o^^ T^*' *^«^ ^^^^^ be-
came a thing of the past In a hundr^i °V ^^«**°«« be-
to petty persecution.*^ When theTy^lffi 7T,. ^« ^«« subject
senses, 'more serious actfon w^p/^tV' '"°^ '^°^ *° ^^«
reac^hS ^S ttrhL^t l^^d'^^^^^^^^ ^ome, the news
and burned. A few momhslafe? W? ^'^ ^^^ ««* «« A^:
vest his wheat field was set on fire^ Lh °/L' ^''\^''««* ^ar-
stood alone with his God --never IVint? ^^^''''^^ '^ «" he
. Then, as if God ^w he needle k?^L°^' °'^"^ ^°"bting.
ignant cancer of theXoa? brS^^J"* ^^^ ^"^ refining, mal-
that the tide of PubVcX' Ssf eme^to^t'^ ''"x,-^* -«« ^^-
began to show signs of rXhanee V>. V"™' , ^'' "^'^^ ^^en
her husband, but it was not tm much IterTh^T"'" '^^"^'^
be really converted. The eldestTm tl u^^^ ^^e seemed to
^ Silver ls Kefined j^
'^'-^n:ZTj^^^^^ ^r U" verdict that D.
ing in every poJb,e tf to make^ for' ?h" '"'*'^'- *^"^««^«'-
heathen neighbors begaf. to ^tthem JvL' '^H ' ^"''" '^^
this man wrong?" ««ein8ei\e8, Have we done
dyi'g'isr;r'revT^^^^ -its to the
cussed by all th^ villa^rs < JJe^wS 5 ^J""* ^"^^« ^^^ ^is-
and) there is little dKit th?t ^ "" °°i ^^'"'^ '^ ^^''^
by the foreigners on the.- visit- »,«h """^ ^""^ '"^•^''^^t «hown
that htrwo'^^r s^:i:^it^' t ^^^ °^" ^--«
neighbors had b^me Chi-i^rans " ""'" ^' '"^^'•"' ^^ ^is
drawrw^raliLJSVea^ff^^^^^^ ?« '^^ breath was
the Saviour's voice m He sLiS 'TJ/^** "^^^^^*^ fa'°»' a°^'
fu, servant-enter thou hu^l^joy'':^^^^^^' *"' '«**'^-
nessS'Ji: dXS o1 tt ^.r V'^^^'^' ^he writer wit-
PUBLIC CONSENT that tt '''"t*^- ?"»P'«.-<le8troyed by
building a Chr^ti^Jchu^^r^^^^^^^^^^ ^^ "««d in
the land on which the Church was buihT^'"*' °^ ^'^^ ^"'^«'
the men who so bitterly pe^cutS thl « ^"'A^?^'^ ^y «"« of
^ It was in this little Wlla^Ch^I^'Jvf"* ^^'Mtian.
the finest personal te^t monlL she hL ?' ^"^^^^eard some of
last of a week's specia meetb« thf . T ^'f "f" ^^ ^«« the
tunity for any who w^kIh V«^' ^*'^^'" ^^"^ K^^en oppo,-
an iiitant a poTworkh,^,^!^'''" * P'^""^ testimony; i.
lest others woSw geTaH 7^^%^- ^ « ^^^*' «« ^^ «^raid
"Please. Pasto^ I wlJnt in S J**'V? ^^^''^ ^^^ ««*<' =
prayer I was wh;eLra barrow fuU of'ZT ?'^ '^^^^^^
place the other evenine wL ft k^^J ^ *^°*' ''°''» « steep
leave my barrow or ?he eoa? woSm K ^T,"" ^ *^'^ "«* ^^^e
dare stay there or I would f^T t^- '^'''f^' *"^ ^ did not
roadside and asked S to lenH '-f ^ ^"'* ^"'* ''°^'" ^y the
was praying a man c^e aC "^^ °"' *° ^"'P '"^^ As I
called to kn!w what I w^ dZl' itV/'^^ T °^ "^^ *^°«««
God to send me some on? f« I f " ^''^ ^"" ^ "«« asking my
man then ^ir^Your S^J^hL ^ T"l'^? "»^ b«"««- The
for I'm a carpenter and I h'r*^'"*'^,^"*^^ ^^^ ^^is time
along." Hemrd^'^yUrowanTheCn'^'^"^^' ^. ^^'"^
i^ow; / do know Ood atJuelsZy^r'^ *"'"•
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PutS^^The^^rj^ I>wan had rise,
the woman next to her%he stowi «St i-^"* ^ **»« '^n* ot
speaking in a low but clear voiS^tt^' ,?*** ?]"«' ^^ity and
The first day. of thew meetin«l r^l?^ f ^*" P^^*'-
mg I longed to help some ontSJ ^I^n'^''^ * «««' We«-
many duties with my littircWld^n SS'' ^^^' ^"^ ^ ^-d so
go out so I just keptp^^f^'^^^i^y^^^^^ ^ r '«* °°t
make the people iro to thp pI.,- u , ^* ■°®"* ™y '^ork, 'Lord
hasn't He heLdCp«ye«r'\2r ?.^ T' *«*^- No^.'
she waved her hand fi%S 7n tL J^"* V^. * ^^o^^ o^ triumph
men's, saying as she d?d ^ 'r!^??i.' "^* *"^ **»««» *<> the
building waa packed if«l!S'"~-^^ ^^'^' *"<* «»«w!" The
were blce?^fth gc«"^an'iS^?Z'^^*^*" **>« ^<i°ws
And now the cCn^ wene &rf i^ "?^ attentively,
mentioned meeUngs a nSr of rh^f*'°"°'^« "»« »^^«-
not unsympathetic^laL,?^*K ^J»™tiang and a crowd of
and erected to hi Sm^'a^^ *^ I^^'^IP'' ^^'b grave
recorded on iV th?t hrpaTh ha?W?.^k ^"" T«^* ^^ ^ave
from his first GleamVf ?he tr^ff T^* ?^.''*y °^ *^« Cross,"
Gloiy beyond ""^ ^'^*** *° ^"' entrance into the
SKETCH II
Characters From One Village
Part 1— Wang-ee.
Part 2— Wano-ee's Neighbors.
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Characters From One Village
Part I. Wano-ee.
«i#„TIl!i 'f *f *"4 prosperous village of Ta-kwan-chwaug is
situated twelve miles southeast of Changte. As in most vil-
ihS^aoL r.'^H*^ f u*^*' °^ head-man, and its worst
character-the leader of the worst element. In this case the
former was Wang-ee; the latter a man named Liang
^„. L r.r*^'"-*'^ ~ * ^^"''* ^'^'^ ^^"^ ««s being con
of alf fhii^' T^ station by Mr. M when to the si^prise
of all this notoriously bad Liang was led in by one of the
Chnstians who begged that he might be permitted to join the
class as he was breaking oflf opium and wanted to be a good
man. As the days passed poor Liang seemed incapable of tak-
ing in anything. He slept most of the time, would fall asleep
the moment Mr. M-_ began speaking, and his snores, to Zy
the least, were most disturbing.
«n ,^« ^t tbe mwsionary's patience became exhausted when
TJi^^^Y ^*"*^ T""* ''^''^^ ^^ ^^- Liang was told he
had better leave as his presence was "useless to himself and
disturbing to others." The man returned home appa^^^^^^^^
much crestfallen and aU thought he would never re?urnTbm
JZ^'l ^^'t*****? °*^T ^"^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^ •" him. OA his
return home his changed life became the talk of the village
Wang-ee, the headman, who was probably the wealthiest farm-
Z L ^^fif'O"' heard of Liang's becoming a Christian, and
of his wonderfully changed life. He talked with Liang and
soon became interested. The Missionary, Mr. G hearinir
of the movement m this village, was preparing to pay them a
visit when he received the following letter from Wang-ee
Honorable teach^Keo,-! hear you are planning to visit
rrr^r''" .'°°'^'*^'^ ^ ««* °"« hundred others to believe
as 1 do I will come to you— not before. "
This message awakened much interest in the man. and day
by day he was remembered in prayer. Several weeks passed
w^en one day Wang-ee appeared at the missionary's door,-a
ypical, burly, well-to-do farmer. He lost no time in coming
to his point. The first greetings over, he said, "I want to see
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Chinese Dumonm
eiS"jSir"''Th°'°'' ^^ ^^"J^' mi«oi,«y led him through
each room. The sewing machine puzzled him— not till it hf.!
SScVLTl*:?' «"«>^i,i^de would he Wievebu h.'^
Jiched wTna'J?'' '^T^'^A ^^^'^ *^ '"* »*>« kitchen W.1
»o ♦ir! "' "^ang-ee exclaimed, "why that is wHrJ I
wanted to see most of all. " Down they w*.nt ThL i,« kL
a vigorous search, the book box^ theJ iTcoa^^'i 'iide^^of
ti^zii:^o^r^:^:''' ^^'^^ «pp-"tir«ts:5!hi
ha hoY®"' ^^ ^'**°^ "'■^ '•*"• A neighbor of mine told me
SLJ ^l^dowiT """^ ^** "-^« «"«^ wirhThi^dren":
f-iJi'l/'^V®*"'?^'' *° th« 8t"dy' when a long and earnest
^ conducting through the house. On reachi^ the TeHar
Wang-ee became much excited. "Now look eve^piere" ' he
yoTtold me o?° wm '^ '^''' r '^"y ^^ *»>«« ^^ ^'hiidren
LXl T It^r. w ""^^ »f «ed very humble and not at all re-
sentful. Later Wang-ee took them all into the city and treat-
ed them to a good dinner before returning home
Nor was this all. A few days passed when again Wan«r-ee
muCanI SideH "''' ?,>« -Reeled cartTAwn^Sy^Jx
mules and loaded down with women, all the women he could
coax to come. These he led through the same procew of en
hghtenment as the men. This time Wangf^^'s S^rwas a
Z^'^'^'''^ '"'l^ ""^ ^''^ ^«««>»t ^ he «w the wZen's
mT mthnnZ., *«t*»"«\?««t «?<! delight at what they
Christi^f Wi*v *''° «^««PtV>°« a" of these women became
Christians. Withm a very short time a llourishine little
^rr tifwh '^ r I*"^-^«:« ^^"«««- Y«»' ^y year theVurch
fiZ i i *"'/ °"1^""* °^J^- ^^' i' "Ot «" the Chris-
wLo^r*^ '''.*^'i* *^^'^^^ *^™« °^ per8ecution,-Wang-ee
„? K fr ^~*°'°'!H*"^ ^^" were stolen, his life threaten-
od. but he remained faithful.
The storm passed. The missionaries returned work was
reorganized. The Chinese Government ordered Indemnity to
Chakaotibs From Ome Village 23
be given to the Chrwtiaiis for their loMett. Theu like mai.v
others, Wang-ee, though brave and faithful iu peril and S-
cuuon, fell under proaperity. He gave in false eatimaf^ of
hui Ip-e. and received in proportion. God knewlhouVh t^^
U-.end and sent the son home to bring his ^fa^L^ When
Wang-ee arrived he met Mr. G with "Whv ijh v«
for me T I.am too old and, anyway, l^'^'no^^ to co^nTesT' ' '
Hn. L *f * ^T ^*"«-^ «««°^«d "hal^en as by a "eZest
"new n^' wha'tVdJir- J"""^ '"^ *^« ««'"*' '^^ ^^^^
Knew not what to do— tor Wang-ee wou d say nothinir When
moniing came Wang-ee sent a message to Mr. O—^saTin '
Oh Pastor give me a chance to confess before the mS nf '
I can't bear this, I will burst." The missionary met ^T^t
a imie later near the church door. WiS heir arms ar^S
gich other and tears flowing freely they entered fhTbuS
Reaching the phitfonn Wang-ee cLt hinwelf down on hb
LhTar^dZtThi''"''!^- Jo'^^-ral moments noTwng^couW
Ue heard but the man's sobs and sympathetic weeninff thronah
Sot th A^H^'Tk /* ^'"^ ^« "^^ ^^^^ conSr HeTld
how the church had gone down, down, and how when the mis
-TKr^i^ jueation him as to th^ cause he would reX
Ihe time for bleasing has not come " ^^'
nnt?1,I°j''i*'^ "^^""^^ ^^""^^ "P°« hi°»««lf- He said it was not
fourth generation """^ «»"-ounded by his family to the
Part II. Wano-ee's Neiohbobs
It was while visiting in one of these villages, Ta-kwan-
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CuiNESE Diamonds
on their flretvSi; r.hl ° "'"'^"'•"^ lb« women '■ Mrty
astonished the writeJ^ X? ""^^ self-command which often
"■""a*"" "';!,• '?"■ •"»« -^Se n^r4hT.r' ■ *'
Cha«act»8 From One Villaok
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oephew who wav comoietelv i-p«»«r-,i m ■
reality and power of OnHmL!?''- ^'"* »*'^f of flu-
of yoJng ChSi ' * '^"^P »mpre«iion on the band
tempt to d«S'heranne^^^^^^ ^n'**'- ' ''^•" "«» at-
in winter garb, he/cljfhl S^^' ""^r*"!^ " "^e looked when
bed quilt, but m^doubtedhr Shi *^ quite aa heavily wadded a« a
old lidy «id Sien S h.r nK '? ^^"*»>^"">' "-y aa another
cerUiniy the mit uSftiff,li^^° ^'"' ^**" ^"^ *'««• "!'"»
From the Uml ^°^"*''"^««t ^oman under heaven."
tried again and amin tn nlo f ***''??* ^er. Miaa M
tried h!r, but in^S q^ ^""m" * ^.^'''^ ^o'"*"- Then I
five minutes iSdJS of afrour"rh"°J- *'"''* *° ""'^'^''^^ ^o*"
moat earnest. ShrLlddnnZ^rfT^'^'l.'''''^!'' ^'^^ ^^'^ the
free, being motherleT^ .h T i ^"*'^ "°*^ «'«« entirely
yea^ did wStt she^uWin hp/** ° ''*"''" *'°'"''' ''"^^ ^^^
8he came to our ifdy d^tor «nH T^if^.""- '^'^^^ ^ne day
a place to spreJd her bS^ tb^ ff^'^-^t'* "*»« '"^^bt have
Ihe doctor hesitated k... — - . ♦».- "'"««•
ance caused, but dec^tTtr; heV That'wr^' ^7u "PP^*"-
years ago, and Mrs. Sung is stiU work^t f«Sl?r *•"*" ^^^^
patients. She found her '"ook '^ Sh^tJ t^""^/™<'°K *he
happy as the day i« long iSTeachifa ♦ J ^^ ^^"^^^' *°^ " "
learn the simple GosidfeSlIf^S* *5^ '^°™^" *° P™^ and
and^co^tentm^ent^S^^^^^^^^^^ jhines^th ^oy
beiifv^r'^J^^^jj^^t^^^^^^ iTr ^T^ '''^ -r'-t
otherwise, never having r^d a ^ord^^h "f-V '°"'^ ^'^^ b«
to the hardest toil in the fidds J^^n 1? ^^ '»^«; acc^tomed
hands showing only too pSvth-f ^- *'°°'^' '^^^ ^««« and
she had come through and tSn I^il P^^ation and hardship
master the Christfan Cat^£sm It t T" °!,'*^ i!^^"^ *°
sigh and say, "I shall nmrTarn to read ^Z^r.^^' ^'^^^
characteristic way look up and^v "Bnt'n/ *^^5 '? ^^''
pray anyway!" She alwavp Jo^^' i, • "r* "®^^^ ™^"^' ^ can
and would tJke one 's ha^d and tha* "'^^' '™"^ '^ ^^'^•«'°«-
coming. *°** *"* " "" «ga»n and again for
Then the Boxer uprising came. Both Mr. and Mrs.
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Cbinkuc Dumonds
J*»^,o' W- emptor., but fiiully^de hS^SSSe For thrl!
raontha he wu driven fMm «i-*^ » • '■"■P*- 'or three
death butohLtllJ^iLS^'^^®* to pi«ce, until nigh unto
ed Md'lSrt «^. "^ "•^ "P '"•°'^- '^l^*" -no-t nL-
.oldlI«":.L7S,SS'S!A?;' "'^.ii- J^i'« -"ff^red too. The
official. X^fteXaiSi ti?M^';iJ!f *•;' ^S..^ *»»« Chanre
thua. -t knowin1Tu^tha'^evJr'd«'^:i:^^^^^^
happy she eould not kMn f h««, -; • "waiiea her, ihe felt so
hundred bloWto iSa£?*r ♦«n ^'^^i ?*** ""^ ^^^ ^^^
her finger w^t^Sd but. h!i''*'-"J^^ ^"^^^ ^'^ Then
it all. On o" ISWin 19!^\rL""**^ *™ *"** *™« through
many ye^nhaZ^cTv^fhr-^''' ?""°* .'°'^*' t**^"**'
wipe away all tears from their ey^" *^ ^'^ ■*•■"
I
SKETCH III
The Man Who Proved God
'Bim thai honoreth Mt I will honor."
The Man Who Proved God
"Bim thai homnlh Me I will honor.
>>
more towards the mr of ?h?lr— *°'' ^"^^^ ^« ^ace once
hi- beloved ga;iv^Lle L^roTr^ir^r^'^^^^^ '^y
spent in fighting disease^d^lJith "**'^" "^*"^ * ^^^^
not m^?e^rJ,1y''^r^*;^^, *^' ^"^^'^ «''*«' something, shall we
and he r'^^lTli.^^^Tt'T'^'^ '' "^^^^ him turn J^ut!
dispensa. door ht^e^n^„t fcLtt^,^ ^^^ --^'
eamI?C"rC£rthtrd","T "'^^^ ^"^ » -^ --'
premises. They were ei?den«v Jn?^"'fu ?*"* ^^^ Mission
a« they mopped S sViS™ n ° k '° ^H ^* '^^ ^""^o^ 'or
caped them Suddenhr rtS. ifii^""'' ^'^^^"t oaths es-
dropped their bS ^S tl^T^^^ "^"^ '«"«hed. they
hpth bearers haJ^X^siirhtT thJ'? "^° **•" ^^'^^d' ^o^
the gate. This was bv f«r ♦ • *^® foreigner coming up to
both^en SQuattTdotn oU^S t^i^t^ ? "*^* *° ^^ «^
watched with keenest iSerK^ ?! ^^ *° '^^ ^•^"e they
WM to all kinds of "Mi« " fjff J"" '"*■ Hardened u he
hta, fjjhe gavel ^i^^ltl^^""''' "■«^«'
nderrng as we came up whetW t^Il i^ T® ''®'« J"«t con-
CD 2
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Chinese Dumonds
"'h'Xtetr^T'.?s!v^ii^,« tt"^ °';,'i? ^^^^ ^« ^^<* -^
save him. If he dies h?wir>.i ""*• ^^ ^^ *^ ^ «^«<1' I'»
suiting together f^' « fY ^*''* P^P^'' ^''"»^" After con-
docto/aMS .'rou%'aThre"r ''^^^^^^^^ *° *^«
ned into the hospital ®° *^® °^^ '''" ca^"-
f or Lu Yum Kwan th«.i„i,», t *'»™Mt prayer roue
«»e «em Te ml« topel^ X'h^.lL'"" ''"?'y.°««i« h"
gler (about anTi, i„ fi. , ' °"' '"*" ' profMsiona jug-
the U.JU.S «lv"C SrSS :S3 b^y''B"l''SeT'" ""
Mi»io,, frfeud," tao^rd^^^'J,';!* tTS? f^ '"
on him, and he tobp «<> ♦ k^ * * "*** ^^ *»*d mt-cy
in ChS^t J^^ "^ ^ ^^^ ^"*"^« proved' *'« ^t^w cr.a<,«H''
shop^whlA Iny P^ S a^^ft^ * ?r " ^^^''y '^'^d food
*rom the first opening of his business he determinpH t«
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The Man Who Proved God 31
answered, ''My nlme i« fhtS °1 *^^ '*'««*' ^" °ame. He
Tt iB««* ♦ ^ * *°® Gospel accordine to Luke 1 "
famine conSuions prtvalfed Th^^^^^^ ^^^-^^^ ^^^ «'°»~t
when the missiona?? S a JSt^t^ \'u T^.* ?^*°'« ^^«^ou,
tiaas which had gaKd a?oZ fJ?. f'Jw 'f ^^""^ °^ <^*'"«-
Truth. KBinerea around this faithful witnesser to the
Not?cl^Va"LffieldVwUu^^^^ ^-^ ^or a walk,
dead fields of Jahi suTrn^n^? ??'^? *'°°*''*«* ^<> ^^e almost
whomitbelongfS VZ^etS\L?>^ ««^«d *«
homt mVT^ '<:5le7utV'h^ writer^"^:i3iting near his
hiB life. One mnf^7^id''':j'!?f^'^'^ h- the story of
aUowed me to fall twice T »« ♦ i^'^ """^ "^^^ ^he Lord
le.™ that Christ m^^be aVrTn^J^^'' '•^*- ' '^' "^
^^^^e67,:'f:^TSs't^'' came tfm,,, his Master,
full assurance of Eternal I-Se S. wl\*i!? ^l^ ^' ^'^ ^^
children comfortab y pJovidS ffr «.?' k""^.^". ^^°^ *«^
to testify to God's faithftJi»« r ' """^ * ^*°<^ ^^ Christians
"windows of Weiw- fo^X "^'''f » ** ^« ^''^ P^^i^
Him. ""^ ^^"^ **^« °^a° who dared to ''prove"
cident wSchSrrXte^^^^^^ "^'^^' i*« *° '^^^ ^ «'-
which Mrs Lu p^oJ^d ZZ ITri^iS' her hnsband 's death in
To be understood the stor^ „,«?>? *^1P^ *<> t^e writer.
BctumingTo our sSon ZSf ^^^ «o°»e^hat in detail,
autumn's toSringlnUnZ « an unusually strenuous
December to the !hild?en WwS„"^** 1° f ^" ^'^^ ^o°th of
for a Woman's Bible Trai^^if* 'll*? ^'*^" '^*"'^«^ ^^e«
down and strive a^ I could ZS~' *'''V "^^ ^«*Jt*» broke
with Ihirty-fivrorforty wr^^l,?^? 1'''^''^^ ^" °^ade
the time the children iihi?i^?*!t.'^.^'*'\h*^ to be made by
the 38th of Dwember^S^f ^ **'^\'' ^^'^^ ^ Chefoo. By
and word was wnt to aU th^^'^'^ ""^T ^"^ *<> ^e canceUed
r^Vt^^r.^^r^'^^^n^s"'/ i^-t untouched
for a way out of th^ d^.l^J/oTDSe^^^Cht IS?
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ChINBSE DulfONDS
ing the Chinese Woman's Prayer meeting. I noticed Mm I ,.
Snfhome^r* *"^ "t ^'^^^ '^^^ «*« Kme frot heTdt
fo? th«^L T T^^ «»o"«tain roada with her little child
tired. Let me run the machine for you. ' ' I looked at h*.r Z
-^ement^^and said, ''You run the LchineV^y yttn"
villail^di^;^ ?* ^«P"^^/'I Joi»»ed a band of women in our
it Tus?'^^!*.^^*^'"^ ^'•°"**'* *°^ ^« '^^ »««^"^ to %u«
thintf L^""® **!"* ^"* ®**y *°^ t^«n more and more difficult
^^Sl? ^° *"** f;r *»°^ «h« did them perfectlH fel awed
at the plainneas of Ood's ]PAHin» *«» ♦u "-"/» * ^eu awea
Chines wftm«« ... * heading, for there was only one other
whT^d Z ii." ^"'^ ^ ^^^' ^ °^^ ^J»ol« Changte field
^j^^^^^duJI ,bu.d«tly mt.r ft. m«no,y of Thy pMt
SKETCH IV
Opening a New Station
Part I-The AfissioNARv s Homb.
Part 2~As Raw „bom the Clbak Sky.
Part 3— Sowing Before the Stobm.
Opening a New Station
Part I. The Missionary's Horn.
«-j^®? ^®4? ®^^ ^"^ <''«*«<* at last, and the Ured mother
r«mg from the child's bedside crossed the cem^irflc^r to the
adjoming room, where a boy of six was busUy en«3 draw
My boy,'' said his mother, "baby has just gone to sleen
Il^rf^mnro^"'*^- ^beae coitantCwTof Im:^
{k7biS? cXS and'piay. ^ '''' ""' ^^"' ""'« ^^^^^ ^'^
As the children disappeared, the mother Drenarpd to out
?n h'^T T' (^%^^^^Xt ackrcely hS shrtekeT^scrss^^
m hand when suddenly she laid them down agak and sZd
1 S*5f «iH "^^ f^"^'' ^^^ »»« ^'^"•'l theToSy shoute^f
S!IS * ®"' '^ ^^^y '^^^^ ^ heard sweeping through the
dotht.n»S;f fi'^T'*'^''. ^ I ever get the children'!
^^SinTtlde. '' '"'^ ' '^"^ '*^ "^^^'^ ~-« ' -«»>* ««t
♦i.o'lf*?®T' P^h'S'*'*'" h^"* husband's voice came through
the study door. "These crowds will not last inde&iite^? S
do your best to reach them while you mayT Before he C
"Please sit down here in the shade and rest do sit down
''Tww * *^T **" ?f '^' *'"*^ * '^^'^ ^oic«» at once.
I know you have, ' ' she replied, tryinff to sneak «; «« n«f
''{l^W l'' ^'r f"*' ^?* beWd^el'^i'^o^v^ic^*
c^^^j'^i/^rJ^r^-;,' ThenasWstillhesiS^he
leTvSi in«\?: is r "' ^^^'^ *"^ "***"' I ^^ promise to
he d^JS? Pffifi?*""" ^?" everything. " This promise had
a few^^d on^ W?T ^^7f^^ ''^ '^^' *>»« o^ benches.-
a lew timid ones kept close to the gate so as to be ready to flee
as
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Chinese Diamonds
many stranire storiMi At Uo* k iT ^t » *°®^ °**^ ^«**'d «>
ing the CV^Z lusty^ri^ Iv? L^'"^'"'^' ?°^ '°«'^-
tunity they desired ^ ' *^*''* ^''^ '^°'"^° *»>« OPPO'"
opened, f^tLgZi^!Z:^J''''''^^'^ ^^^t. drawee
they appeared satiflpd^' *"u*^ ^'^'^ P'^yed before
Iv L thTh?d^2e%nT^3rno\hTr ^?^^ ^ '^"•<''^-
Half an ht r TaS ^ h"Xn7r^t"ut^^^^^^^^
preaching to find his wife in tears "'^"^ ^'^*"" ^''^ "»«» s
;;Why, what's wrong?" he asked.
terrible things they ar^ JS^I n ^^^ ^^^^ "« «»^ ^l'**
my work I fmmS f>.! \ J "*• • ?®*^^^ ^^«» I came back to
r/d part of rmI?eriaW^wT"'i?^ °^y.^"* P^^^ o^ ^^^
all. Th"cw»khaftrK ^*! "'*'''"«* <^^««<>^- That is not
missing '' ^""^ ''*'" '" *° «*y ^^^' ««^«ral teaspoons are
in.7w%;'Srt^^^^^^^^^ "That's noth-
strain' LtrL^'^r'^fe:; tirVioSr^'/'^'''^
SSto^L^'rlTn^aZtM''^^ '' count, wood ^d
?j:'tC e;:S^^^^^ t"?crs?hrp^rS?h^
an Rlnml^^^^^''9' i"* '•«*'^c<J a moment later with
shalCnnW oi? ^ ^''^■. Po«ti«» to these words, « ' My oSd
neve this? If we do, then let ns join in asking God to me^t
Opining a New Station
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*^^"bS«1 -^^ *^ ^i*" ^°^ «« evangelist"
*«t*»oww It poasible," returned hM^f,» «'w-k
got even one convert vp* J^a ul . '*' " ^ *»ave not
"True, but GorLaWel^fuM'l H?*™'^'^^"
A8 the huaband proved thpwif?u°''°uP"'™^''
can help come. // Tif!/ J? ,7'^® **'°"«*'*' "»>'»*. oh. Aou-
explT^;*Kt it've^inXr **;:? .^^'^^'-^o*. ^deed. aa they
thr^usi be left JSrl^^t^;^^^^^^^^ *'°"'^»^*- ^^^-^ory o^
Part II. As Rain from a Cleab Sky.
and iL^"Z?gIri?;t'"'' °' *'^"''^ "''^ ' ^'' ^«''ver thee.
only^aThin "r:^irb:^;;^^^^^^^ * ^^^^ - »>-^ bed with
cold bricks. His li"d color whht*.'""'"'*."*^ ^°"° »°d the
the moderate opium ierhi^'*^*^^ P^t'^J?' ^"k shade of
breathing, all betXnTthe man^'JJi^, «"^, '"'^'^^^
only a miracle could save him bL1^?1- ®^**^^***«« ^^en
ary, who was saying earaest^'^- k f^J'!?' "***<»<* » °»"»ion.
the man's shoulderf ^*™^"y «« ^e laid h,s hand kindly on
;;Wang Fu Lin, I tell you God can save you "
what is the use of beUeTing when th^ nn? *"j°? P"*^''' ^"t
iron chains? Even Pastor Hli^«iif ^^Pl'^bu'ds me as with
no. don't waste your Ime on l^T ^^'^^ *° ^^^« '"«• No
the man turned 4ain to his opTv^ ' " "^^^"^ ^°P^" ^^^
on the Mission court enTute fo??h! * i? ^""^^ ^^^ missionary
^ For ten awful days wt/FuLin^^^
hung in the balance. Th^ISionLr^^;n^^'• °^°.^ ^*^ «>"i
was possible to relieve the m^ v^tfiT*^ "» <*oi"«r a" that
night the crisis came. IWUmSpTw '""^ *?« t^^th
how that night he went ourwheTS W«J ^*"^ • ^" ^^" to^d
ness. To his distorted brJn?K "®'* ^^^^^^ ^^^^o the dark-
rible being ur^g Wm ^^^^Z tSSf*"? ^ ^^"> «» ^o^-
«»ore in opiuZ L hT stoci^UriJ " ''•^ ^^ "'^^^^ <>^«^
"'ooa wavering a voice seemed to call
•" Chinbw Dumonos
to him, "Wang Fu Lin, Wang Fu Lin, beware! Yield now
•ndyouareloit." Aa he heard this vaice he made one
rather than yield." Staggering back to his brick bed he threw
himself upon It and slept till morning. He wakened, as the
luture proved, a new and Tictorious man.
Three years passed. The missionary at the new station is
facing the crisis described in our last sketch. Help must come
in the shape of an evangelist, or he would break down. The
spiritual wireless is set in motion. The cry for aid is heard
And help is sent truly as rav^ from a clear sky
w7«""i!.*^ *?• ^^^^ l^"^ "''*'« ^"^ deliverance from the opium.
Wang Fu Lin and his family had had a bitter struggle foi^
existence As a Christian he could no longe- make a living
by street story telling and the keeping of !ow opium dives
and every effort to get honest employment hau fail^. At Iwt
i«nh I""^t? ^ T^ a position in the city of Changte, to
reach which he miMt needs pass by the Mission where the mis-
sionary was then facing his crisis.
nuT'}^^ ^" ^^ caUed on the missionary as he was passing.
But no one could have looked less like an answer totheir
prayers. Still fearfully emaciated, racked with aTugh wS
ere long would end his life, dressed in almost Sarraw
the poor fellow presented a pitUble spectacle. But "the li?d
seeth not as man seeth. " ^ue i^ra
After consulting together the missionary and his wife de-
ternuned to try him for a few day*-for hr«>uW I leas
testify to the power of God to change and k«^p the lowS
opium slave. Witlun an hour or tw^f his entSSig theX^
S 5n h' J^P""?.?^ * ^^' ^*^ F" ^^ wa? cleansed
and clothed m a Chinese outfit of the missionary's, and was
* rom that very first day of his ministry, there was nn
doubt of hw being a messenger sent by G^d. He hTin a
wonderful degree the power and unction oHke Holy SpWt
veloped during the many years of street story telling Now
aU was consecrated to the one object^the wiping of souE to
Chris . He seemed to be conscious that his timf waT^ort
very first men were won to Christ; the firet being a native
doctor of some note, the second a weilthy land o^er
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For three yean during thoM early days of stress and
Ph!IIl:» VT" 'T*'^v*® ^%^^ "» '*y'°« **>« foundations of the
S^nf?l™';f*'- Then God took him. Though more than
twenty years have paned since his death, he is still remem-
bered and spoken of as the Spirit-filled preacher.
Part III. Sowing Before the Storm.
The five years between 1895 and 1900 were years fraught
with much danger and many difficulties to the missionaries at
Iffi Jf7 "^IT ** ^hangte. The anti-foreign, anti-missionary
attitude of the pwple was hard to live down. It became quite
a common thing for the missionary to be called hastily to the
front to quiet a thi ning crowd.
On one occasion t,. rission premises were practically sur-
rounded by an unruly >ob and for many hours the mission-
aries were m imminent p -ril. One thing helped greatly in liv-
ing this danger period down safely. The missionaries of whom
I have alreauy written had moved from the poor, unhealthy
the fi^f inif T- ^*?' rr'^f ^^^ '°*° * 8emi-foreign house,
w^ ».?• uK^^u^ ^ ^^ ^".'•* ^° **»** '•««f^o°- As this hous^
fT^n,-! ^ built they feared it might prove a barrier between
themselves and the Chinese, and perhaps hinder the progress
«; I^'?!. ^T?.^ ^*? ***«^ ^ ^ ^e'y encouraging, so they
prayed that God would make their new home a blw^ing and
a means of rwiching the people still more, and like so many of
our prayers they came to see the answer lay largely with them-
selves-so they determined to allow aU who wished, to see
through their home. Many thousands took advantage of this
permission The high water mark in numbers was reached
when eighteen hundred and thirty-five men passed through
the missionary 8 home in one day. Many hundreds of women
were received that same day by the wife an.l her colleague in
the work. On ordinary occasions the missionary had his wife
play the organ for the bands of men he led through, but on
this particular occasion she was too much engaged with the
women to do so. The missionary therefore was forced to be his
own organist Though he did not know one note from an-
other, he could at least pull out all the stops, lay his hands on
08 many notes as possible, and pump the bellows vigorously.
The rMuJt caUed forth from admiring crowds the gratifying
remark, "Why he plays better than his wife!" The oipel
was faithfully proclaimed to all who came. The missionaries
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Chinisb Dumonm
J».n jb.g.n to «H. good fruit from thi. pUn of r«ichmg th.
U*.Tlt *P®.»«^ ewimiiuUoM came round, three vun
later, the miMionary waa waII n«»«.-Jj # lu '°™*. '••"
they came aa beforTfull of Iif^?^^^ '°r t^*™- At flnt
were quite "perior i^pi^n'Si^eltflhr^^^^^ '^'* '^'^
Curiosity alone led the^iTS tt SrJ^t^o^'T."''•
8ooncr would they catch liirhf nf ik^u V °°™*-. ^"^ "o
on the misaionaS^'g VtndJ W.11 J^^ IV^ wtronomical charts
changed. T^7«bX^^:Vw^' 1 theTm'JL*^"^ ^""^'^'^
step on into the w^e« of cr«tbn o^^^^^^ IT'"?^ '^^P ''^^
iDfiT-often would come the c^ - TpI^J; ♦ ""*{ knew noth-
teacher, I could not icceD7?nv ir^"? replied-" Honorable
v!J?io-.r stSr '~ CAM
the win of the study ij VJT^ '?'''°* *'^"'* ^^^^^^^ on
field, and over naiS of tL^ * "*^^ "^P °^ *^« ^hangte
child was co^tLg^hoL J^dlnl?'^ 1"^ ^'\ P« '^^^'
nine when his father e^er^ ^^ *"^ '^"^ ^''^^^ *« '0^7-
fifty r^elj-pfa^cf •' '"^ '''' ^^' "'''"«* ^o^^^' t^ere are almost
SrhrnrreS??.-'^- *^« "^'^ ^^ thXeJtLt^L'"-
redr^LdTs'ii^^i^^l^^^^^^^^^^^^^ *^« -^ole map is
about her father's neS ^"^^ ^ ^^^ *^^ew her arm*
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Oh kind Heavenly Father, who withheld from Thy chil-
dren's human aight what Thou knewest waa so aoon to come
upon them I
A few short weeks after the above scene the apirit of the
little fair-haired child had returned to the Ood who gave it,
the miaaionariea even fleeing before their would-be murderera
— the Chinese Christians scattered. Many throughout China,
both missionaries and Chinese Christians were witnessing a
good confession even to cruel death for Chriat'a aake.
So the blood of the martyrs became in China, aa in the
early timea, the seed of the Christian Church in China.
SKETCH V
Testing God
A True Incident.
Testing God
A True Incidbnt.
«JS.(»T ""' "" '*' '"""■"'' •"»■" '■"' ""-" '*«
.™ . foliomng sketch which U true in every detoS
"I simply cannot, dare not, go," the wife was saving an
«^ li. v w ^®"®'* ?****■ P**^Jy «»at an epidemic of 8mal^
?t Lrt!'nn7^''' TJ'^t**^* ^f^^ P^«« '^^ placed tS ^0 STlf
LIS latplSw^ ^ '^P'^^ «^*^*y 8°' ^'^t suppSng he
should later take the smallpox and diet" and her voice ended
Z^fJ^^'^^^^^'^J'^: "^"*'" '«P««J her husband "? am
perfectly sure that if we definitely trust Him for the eh?H
God will not let him come to harm/ The ChriSaw a^ all el
pecting us, and would it be right to show thewS father at'
^\^n'JST:r,:i^^' Howcanwetelllh^thtesl
^^r^^XtZn^rtV^^^^ cTSl r "fn i^pe^^^
sense of duty towards her heathen sisters. At last she de
srS?et*?he^Xt' '^" ""' ^'^'"^"^^ '«"*^-^^
The fallowing evening after bumping (the only word to ei-
mt^! Z,T^ X'^' •"'""■ i" • •PringL ^rt^o^er
mils ana stony roads, the missionaries reached the viUairP of
S^SInfZi.^:?**?^, """"f^' '^' ^"-^ « few ci!:^trarwe^^
to Sp T«^. T""*^ and escorted them through the darkn^
IJiA ^°5-«*«h .«»« ai^ww to help in getSg their Juests
settled One carried the roll of bedding-two othew thffSd
box, still another sought to get posseSl,f the ba^^ b«tlj^
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Chinese Duvonds
mother feared to part with him. Evervthinff wiu. nJi-^ ;
SSKSToM^f °" ''^ i*'*^ brickX^ XS't^rup
aooui naif of tiie room which thev were told w«. ♦« u2^*u ■
there w« JLttirw1S5'w*^'S^k™ti'tr. ^TS?
their beS ™., Z fn^h.^'i"** '"»"* «» •P""'
.heS«*d°4''Z^"|S±«e:!l' r-- »d children trom
the room wa> fS to .fe.S ^"^ ^^ ■""« »''=l«k
«de t^g to ^nn** !^ t^'C^jS'g to':^'a^5r7/.,T
i:«rS£Sl r - - - -To
light and ™. the w.S& hr^SpTwtS"'Bu."^'j''*/'-
mormug found him in md feveS l^, ""'Saturday
mother's anm Th. m«ti,.. "^™''' lyuw IwUcm in his
vice .t . dirt«.rv3Lt LTlmt""* ' ""™""°-' "'•
"on^X'^"'™ ««'r r„d r.r/-'^""'''',: •» "■' ■»"-
J pnriy was astir, and as the dawn was brealting they
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SfcoSit'rllolC^ through the quiet deserted streets into
ine country, foUowing a winding mountain oath Whpn «V
i^ii^ite' "ij '"^ ""* '«'"'3' 0' «»t hour. It wL i
f»erto^^d%ytSi.t5^^^^^^^^^ tt^diiS
To^th^^Lrk^i^^^^^
S S-^ KuT«r^ t^ii^tirns^^&f
whSsThSS^M !:^ ^f'^P*,?" ^^« ^PPi^K of the ^nJkg sun
s^reTh^^it ^fS-T.^'* "P l^^ ^"*«^" ^'^y '^^d plain S
It «^™^ Jj °" **"!!!' **J*' " t^e «ye could reach.
t«,i f!^?!,^,-?*^"^ °° ^^** ^'"^-toP alone with God so easy to
trust for the htUe one who was still feverish and ill Sff-n
wreTeiiia^tr^j^xn^^^^^^ "^
early they once mor? tSThef/facl'LmerrS'anT^^^^
mother saw the bright, happy smile onTr TSd wfcf Sj
This cruel self, oh how it strives
And works within my breast,
How many subtle forms it takes
• • • •
As if it were not safe to rest
And venture a// on Thae. "
n :^^ r*" P*«e<* the mother's faith did grow but it wm on
Ood^J<^Ukfulness until she learnt it u,« Sf ^to ventu " SS
Dear fellow-mother in the homehmd, as you realize from
steTo^fromT^l^^ °' ^•^^^ '' ^*« ^ "mother in ihinlS
S''?onM^ 5''"i',T^^° «^« h«' Chinese sisters, ask you^
mL £ri *?° ?*^ ^^' ^y «^t«"' criticize les^ and pray
more for the missionary mothers of China.
SKETCH VI
A^Christian General
Hope for China's Soldiers.
A Christian General
Hope for China's Soloikrs.
• ^"^^^ ^o"o^in« letter was written on board river steamer
immediately at the clone of the viait to General Feng's camp.)
On Board Yangtze Steamer,
r» XT « . . September 2, 1919.
Dear Home Friends :
About the beginning of July, a very urgent messaffe
reached Doctor Goforth from General Feng^ Ch^^f
™w' f ^? ^?^* "mission" among his troops. The only
possible time he had to give was the last week of August, and
the meetings were arranged for this time. Later the General
telegraphed for me to come for meetings among the 70 or 80
officers' wives. *
When the time drew near that we should have to leave Chi
iiung Shan for Chang-teh, word came that cholera was raging
at places along the railway. Then the heat became so intense
1 was tempted to listen to some who urged me not to go. But
as I hMitated, I was led to Ecclesiaates 11 :4— "He that ob-
serveth the wind shall not sow, and he that regardeth the
clouds shall not reap." How could I refuse to go, in face of
such a text f If I had not gone, what I would have missed !
The journey of one day by train and three by steamer was
extremely hot It was as if we were in a Turkish bath day
and night We slept at night on the deck of the steamer. On
Sunday afternoon, Aug. 24th, we reached the house of Mr.
CaaweU of the Holiness Mission.. It was amusing to read the
General s letter written in English by his Chinese English
Teacher, m which he said to Mr. Caswell, "I beg you to pre-
pare the treatment for their coming. ' '
General Feng called within an hour of our arrival He is
over SIX feet tall, and every inch a General, yet without a
gace of the bombast so often seen in the higher-class Chinese
His manner is a curious and striking mixture of humility!
dignity, and quiet power; he has a handsome, good face. He
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ChINE.se DUIIOXDS
The Story or His Cosvmtsios.
too ion'gtZvl'i^lt^rTS ^"?«.* int^r^iing, but it is
young fellow of 8i:Se?'\i'? ^"!f' '! « «• follows :Lwhen a
the Boxer VprLSfZkelTmt' ™^- Shortl^JfTe "
put down the Boxers ajpao tinirft! k*! T"*"' thow\,ent to
cer was really in league wUhfh"/,^ ^ h«» commanding offi-
mjMion courtyard when tTe Bo^!^' ^°* -^'^ *»« stood in a
miMionary came out to mlt th-™ '"TV"'- ^ "°»'e Jady
life and the lives of the oTh^« w?t^' if"^ ^^^^ ^or her ow^
recounted «hatsheand othe«ha?b^'''r^ "i'^ 'f^* P°^«r
What she said touched th^ v«„„!. T?? ^°'"» '<>r their people
were spared then, bul helT/t^t\Z ^""^ *"^ ^^« ^the.^
later. °« "«ara that they were all beheaded
hosSin'peti^. Tnl^rnJV"' ^'^^ «* the mission
the doctor said. ' 'if vou tJT^* ?* '""ted to give monS' but
done for you. then ailT^ of vo^iir^^"' ^^' ^''"t wThave
'8 our God in heaven wSrio^" u ''° t'T™^' *^«* «»«"
obliged to go to hosDital fnJ f!!^/ "• ^ter, he was affain
from the fiSt on?.°^Herl tt,^« "^e«t ** « P'««« far dXt
most exactly the samlZ^Jt^.'^^l;';^" leaving, ^^^ al!
heaven Who loves you " Remember there is a God in
road ; and, though otherSriS ™ ^^'^"^tely started on the right
to take an o„trdl^VilTe*Z?dT'E^ ^ '«*^"^°»
Christian life from Dr. Mott 'i vfsit ^^^ning of his
The General's Work
deauf;Lri^;;^e£TeL^^^^^^ "«^*<^ heard a great
he has been her^but w^aT wA/^ accomplished in the year
heard. General Feng haS^*h^welf^r.'tiP.'^'^'^ ^''"t'^we
hody and soul, at heart. ThS lJZ\.l'\^^^'^^' both
put down vice of all kinds AH h!^ ^^ 1^^ ^■<'* that he has
are removed far from the" c^mp ^ nT*" *S? '^'''' ^^'"^tes
ambling, or opium is „„,.^%,,>^^-k,»^^^^^^^^
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binding iR RlCed. ^"** P'*'" ~"°°- '"^^ '«»»■
officii «?d"m:i "^h'e^ b^r'fi;" "':;* °' *^*^'^^'^ «p°'-»'' *-
are taught to^d tII • ^f^f^"'* 'oom; the illiterate
hvVfK.;- ^j u ^'^'^ " »» ■c'^ool ^or officers' wives taueht
.re'onhTpjjiiL'Siit^^ ^s^f %r ^^^^ °««.^" -^" ^-'"■
for womln fi^.J'A.'^}- ^*>"'' '« «" industrial school
ing The m l?m7t o? if"^^''"^ ""^"^^ ^"'' »""' ^^^^ "e near-
several™ rtyards of S ^ ^ '^'^ "^"""'"^ ^° P'^ ^^Wh
time. Tw^^ZdilonlT'''^^^^^^^ just at breakfwt
inir before tL!J^.*-*' Tu ""*' ^^'^ '"^" '° groups stand-
^ving And we^rHS^H '^^' "'•^''^^^^ ^yiL of thanks-
camp that eve^ev^iSi'^thL*''' "^r'""^^ "^'"« "^^^ th-
their%veninglj;2^"Tmet?me^^ is'*l"of "'''!" ''°^°«
Lord Jesus- therTi. »^m T I ' 9*^' *'°'°« *« ™y heart
me notT^ntle SaviZ '' A^ti?"*"',/^ Thee"-or "Pass
street, they rin» cEL h^ ^^ ^^^'''? "**'*^^ «^o«K the
ma. iug ^^S;;-^^^^^^^^ - of^the favorites for
riedToSIE-?^^^^
neighbor. AU k^tThe t.,n T* '^^^"^ ^°^ *^« ^^^^ ^^ i^is
placed or s^ng ^"^ loudly^s th^^v JoX L'^^'^l ^''^^^ '^"^ ''^
The general effect WMdLflj«5 J^-? *^^' *<^*' <^^ s^out.
for there werTSln OoS ™i *' "J'*^ *° """ *'"»<«* appalling,
engaged men tSe CrTHater S,*^«"*y if^trumenS
twenty men to sing hVthe^Z ^^^i^^'t^'^'^' ''
accompaniment it wm r».iKr J i- ulV^,^ " *"® ''**'y organ
TheyLgve^'wrfli^dJ^"'^ ^'^'*^*^^^ *° ""^^ *<> ^hm.
The Mission and Its Result
M Chinbii Diamonm
ence of about 1,000 men, chiefly officen. At three of these
meetingi the wiveg were permitted to be preMnt; but aU the
reet of the women '■ meetings were eepante, when God gave
me much help in ipeddnff to them. At oar last meeting, prac-
ticaUy all the officers' wives present said they wished to fol-
low the Lord Jesus.
At one of the last meetings for the men, General Peng
broke down as he tried to pray. What seemed to affect him
was the thought of his country. As soon as he oould recover
from his sobs, he stood up and, facing his officers, pleaded for
his country— pleaded with them to join him in putting aside
aU mean motives, and think and work and pray for their coun-
try. One of his staff officers followed, praying earnestly, then
one after the other of the officers, with sobs and tears cried
to God on behalf of themselves and their country.
An old missionary who was present, and who described
the scene to me, said he did not think there had ever been such
a scene before when a general wept before his own officers,
with all that followed. But the discipline was not } --^ken by
It; fo. when the General rose to leave, the audience rose as
one man.
oo ^m' ^^^o*"*^ *«»<* General Peng went yesterday to a camp
2d miles away, where there are about 4,000 troops. Pive hun-
dred of these have already been baptized, and hundreds more
are enquiring. A Christian Chinese gentleman, who has won
a fine name, is to come to act as the General's chaplain and
organize the work among the troops.
Thx Coming Man or China.
Many feel that General Peng is the coming man of China
His troops belong rightly to the north, but were sent down
here to fight the Southern Army. General Peng, however, has
made it clear to the Peking Government that he is willing and
eager to fight the enemies of his country; but, unless forced to
do so, he will not fight his own countrymen of the south.
When the war was on, he telegraphed more than once to be
Mnt to Prance; and when the situation looked very serious in
Shantung a few months ago. General Peng was spoken of as
the man to cope with the Japanese.
Surely it is a cause for most eameet praise to God that
such a man is being raised up. The very fact that such won-
derful possibilitiM lie before him, and that after all he is but
human, should call forth definite prayer for him. China
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need*— ob, m> terribly ! — just tuch men. May God grant that
Ocneral Feog be kept and iiaed to save his country at this time
of eriaia.
July 24th, 1919. — Almost a year has passed since the above
letter waa written. Several thousands of General Feng's sol-
diers are now baptized and the splendid work continues. But
aa I write, civil war, which has been simmering for years, has
now broken out in dead eamei^t. General Feng and his men
are in the midst of the conflict and all are looking to him and
bis friend Wu-pei-fu to save the situation in this crisis.
SKETCH VII
A Chinese Nobleman
A Chinese Nobleman
As I reriew the life of the man of whom I am to write,
two incidents of over thirty years ago come to mind. On our
way to China one of our fellow-passengers was a man who had
been in business twenty odd years in China. He declared
there were no real Christians in China, that they were all
"rice" Christians— followers of the foreigner for what they
could get and so on. Practically all the passengers, except the
missionaries heartily agreed with these statements. Later we
heard the same thing repeated on the coast steamer. Shortly
after reaching our destination a well-known resident of
China, who had occupied for twenty-five years a responsible
position in the "Customs" m&de such positive statements
along the same line that the writer bef^n to wonder if these
things could be true. Six weeks later this accuser, and as I
know now to be, cruel slanderer of the Christians had gone to
meet his Judge— dying suddo/ily in his chair as the result of
a vicious debauch !
It is now the writer's privilege to give testimonies after
thirty years standing, to the genuineness of the Chinese
Christian — here is one of them.
Twenty miles northeast of the Mission Station of
Changteho lived a well- to-do banker and landowner named
Chen-Lao-Jnng. He was a man of most masterful personality.
His old mother, to whom he was greatly devoted, had long
been afflicted l^ attacks of what the Chinese called demon
possession— which from all accounts exactly resembled those
recorded in the Bible. Every heathen means had been used
for her relief. v7itch doctors, necromancers, Buddhist priests,
and others had used their arts upon her (some of these being
very cruel), but the poor woman was "nothing better, but
rather grew worse. "
One day a Christian called when the woman was in a seri-
ous and violent condition. Mr. Chen asked Mr. Hsu, the
Christian, to pray to his God for his mother, but the Christian
replied, "I would gladly do so, but it is useless for me to pray
to my God, who is the only true God, when you recognize so
many other gods that are false. These household gods must
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Chinese Dumokds
first be destroyed: then I can pray." (Oh, that our home
Chrwtiana would realize this too, then would Ihey know the
power of prayer). '
After some demur Mr. Chen decided that he had tried
these gods and they had failed him, now he would burn them
by thi SSsto'^r"'""^*^ '' ''^^^"^ *^" "^^^'^^^ ""^'^
In face of the bitterest opposition from his family and
neighbors he publicly burnt aU the household gods. Then he
and Mr. Hsu followed by all the family and a crowd of curious
neighbors went into the mother's room where she lay foaminir
on the bed. Mr. Hsu first sang the hymn "Jesus loves me"—
then prayed, then sang again.
Gradually the woman quieted down and befor. long was
completely restored. Thus the Lord as of old answered
prayer and delivered the woman from the terrible power
which iMd had such a hold upon her. Her deliverance was so
wonderful that all the family .md some neighbors immediately
accepted the Gospel.
Mr. Chen left his home and business for several weeks and
came to the out-station where the writer and her husband
were. Here he took the place of a little child. His humiUty
eai-nestnoss, and sincerity impressed us all. When he felt he
had grasped the main truths of the Gospel he returned home
realizing as few Christians seem to do, that he had been saved
to save othen. He at once started family worship, and pre-
pared a buJding as a chapel and preaching hall-l jre he
pthered and taught all who wished to learn. His whole
lT^'SfT^°'?.f ^ *""* ^°'" ^^* *"^ «»° neighbors were
won. The first of these was a notable opium slave. The story
- fi*fl„**' ^^\ ^"1^ °^ Christianity in Mr. Chen's region
would fill a volume, but space permits only the brief record
of open outstanding facts.
About two years after Mr. Chen became a Christian the
locusts came over the country in great numbere, eating all be-
fore them. Mr. Chen told his family that since they would ail
be busy fighting the locusts, family worship would for the time
be given up. A few days later a fine boy in the family, about
seven years of age, became paralyzed in one side and was un-
able to get off the kang (or brick bed). The foUowing is Mr
Chen's own account of what followed.
T ' J9°*, <'*y I ^ o«t in the fields fighting the locusts when
I suddenly seemed to waken out of sleep "Hsing Wu kuo Ui"
I cried aloua— 'Why! ike connection is cut! The connection
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is cuti" I hastened home and called all the family together. I
told them to get down on their knees and confess with me
our sin of putting God aside, that by doing so we had cut the
ec'Unection with God, for God had said, 'Your iniquities have
separated between you and your Ood and your sins have hid
His face from you.' Oh, Lord now that the connection ia
mended, won't you heal the little boy!' And as we prayed
we heard the child get off the kang. and before we rose from
our knees he was running around quite well."
Mr. Chen became a tower of strength to the missionary,
who when obliged to be absent sometimes from that part of
his field would commit the affairs of the Church into his
bands. Did he get money for this, you ask. No — all his
service was for love of his Lord.
Not many months ago this man stood bravely, grandly,
one of the severest tests any Christian oould be put to.
lie ha«l a very dear little daughter, a pretty, gentle, timid
child of about nine years of age. This child was away from
home when she was attacked by a young woman of violent
temper, the daughter of another Christian. The child was
struck several times with a heavy stick, and as she fled terri-
fied was followed and struck again, it is believed, on the head,
a few days later the child returned home, but could say little
else than, "I'm afraid" over and over again. She sank
rapidly and died ; but before her death she told her father of
the attack upon her. A few dajrs later the writer received a
most touching letter from Mr. Chen in which he reviewed the
past — ^what he had been saved ftrom — what Christ had been to
him — then wrote as foUows—
"Shepherd Mother — My heart is crushed, my little
daughter is dead. I do not want the one who killed her to be
punished. I only ask that you warn her so that other chil-
dren shall not suffer as mine has done."
Those of ua who know how exceedingly revengeful the
Chinese are by nature will agree that one could scarcely find a
more beautiful example of the power and fruit of the Gospel
of Jesus Christ than this.
CDS
SKETCH VIII
Mr. Doong
Mr. Doong
My hniband and I with our ehildren had settled down for
a few weeks' stay at one of our out stations, when I noticed
one morning at breakfast a strange man sweeping the yard.
He looked such a queer bundle of incongruous clothes I could
not make out if he were a teacher, a poor farmer, or a coolie.
The man's face was so wrinkled and his shoulders so stooped
he looked a much older man than his years, which could not
have been more than fifty.
"Who is that queer old manf " I asked my huabind.
"His name is Doong Lin Huo," he replied, "he has come
to study the Gospel and is so grateful for what he is getting
he has begged me let him do something to shew his gratitude. ' '
Some days later one of the Evangelists came to me for
some medicine for Mr. Doong, saying he was very ill with
that foe of native and foreigner aUke— dysentery. I had only
one small bottle of expensive medicine which I kept for our-
selves in case of emergency. It was unopened and when once
opened I knew it would lose its strength. So I said :
"I have only medicine for ourselves."
"I fear if something is not done for Mr. Doong he will
die," the Evangelist said as he turned away disappointed.
This dedded me and I hastily gave him out several doses.
Later he came for more and a few days passed when Mr.
Doong himself appeared d re ss e d up in &ie borrowed garments,
and his face shining with the extra rubbing he had given it.
Before we could prevent him he had prostrated himself before
me knocking his head several times on the floor, saying, "Oh,
lady, you have saved my life I"
The story of this man's conversion is of interest in that it
is typical of thousands in China. His people were farming
mountain villagers. Some years ago when visiting his vil-
lage I was impressed with the pieturesqueness of the situation,
built as it is on the side of a steep mountain cliff above
a rapidly running stream. As we went through this village
street we walked up steps as if going up stairs.
Mr. Doong's family was laige even for this land, it con-
sisted of several of the old passing generation, also his five
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lona and their wiv« and eLUdren and loine of their wna' wive*
and their children. AU lired within one enclorore. Th!
n!nwi2r?'#"*?v .^^ ^* ■" ^« »°«">" increaaed it waa
notaufflcientfortheiraaadaanJ some sought employment
eapecially during the winter moiitfaa. Mr. D?ong wSS?^
among thew, he joined a low travelling theatrical company, aa
oook and lived aa low a life while with them aa any hSnan
being could weU live. When the mianonary flrst came aeroa
aim he waa nafaig hia animala during the alack winter montha
to eaoort travellera over the mountains west of hia home.
One day the mianonary arrived in the village with hia
**!?^.^'?"^*? •*" **'•*' '^y to a famoua goddeae' temple
aituated two hundred Chineie milea further weat among the
mountaina. Mr. Doong and hia animala were hired for th^
journey Day by day aa the party etopped at noon and for
the night pre -huig waa carried on in the open. During thoae
daya Mr. Doong caught Uttle el«? of the preaching than that
they were speaking againat the goda. He became aUrmed and
» Bure waa he that the great goddeaa would cauae some
ternble calamity to overtake them on their arrival at their
doatination he determined to leave the partv aa epeedily as
possible, and it waa with a senae of real relief that he saw. as
he thought, the laat of them.
Some weeta later he had occasion to go to the distant city
of liin-llaien far off among the mountains. Here he found
the same missionary with his preachers stiU preaching aa be-
fore-and no calamity had befallen them ! He began to have
doubts aa to whether th«qr might not be right after all Every
opportunity was taken advantage of to hear what they had to
say with the reau.r that when the time came for him to leave,
ne turned hia face towarda home a changed man.
Hia firat atep waa to deatroy the houaehold gods, much to
the horror and anger of his family and neighbors, who aU
believed him to have become bewitched by the foreigner and
waited to 8et< some dread judgment faU upon him. Surely
facing such odds aa bravely aa this man did and with quiet
steady calmness raiaea him to the place of a real hero.
out Vh*; ^fn If^R."^ ^ ^"^^^ ^ **P^"™- Th" he did with-
out the ud of other druga. He aimply sought God 'a help and
got it. Hia la one of the rare caaea we have known of. where
the terrible opium habit haa been broken without humkn aid
««aT ^^^ ^.J7*"' ^ ^^ out^tation to learn to read and
teaeW .^K- •*' ^' K^i ^' ^« «<> «»V task for either pupiUr
teacher at his age, but so earnest waa he and diligent that in a
Mft. DooNO
•7
few week* he could reMl the ChineM New TesUment «nffiei.
entiy weU to get the meaning and in • few months had prae-
ticaUy maaterwl ita • • charaeten. ' '
♦K "^t"^ ^•*" ^.'"^ *^*"^ ^*"«*> ^™« ^' !>«>«« h^ won
u»e higheat opinions from missionanes and his fellow
Lhnstians. His name was suggested as a probationary evan-
gelist, and although his Uek of edueation was against him. his
beauUful epint, so gentle, snd so full of love to all with whom
lie came m contact, seemed to more than make up for this lack
and he was unanimoualy called to the preaching of the OospeL
As time passed, results from Mr. Doong's m ristry amply
justified this step, for wherever Mr. Doong was placed the
work flourished and converts were added.
On one occasion the writer visited one of these places with
her husband. It was a busy pottery centre, known far and
Tm ,?'!o'^. unspeakable immorality. Yet even in this most
difficult field Mr. Doong had gathered out a little company of
I shall not soon forget the welcome we received on our
arrival after a long trying dusty journey, at the door of the
humble place where he lived and where we were to stay He
was so hearty and kind and yet had a certain dignity and
courtei^r which made me say inwardly, " Can this be the same
man who was cook in a low theatrical company t " Yes he was
the same, yet not the same, for his whole Hfe, his looks, his
wonderful power of holding heathen audiences for over an
hour at a time ail testified to the power of Christ to save and
transform men.
At the close of our visit I told my cook to settle as was the
custom with Mr. Doong for the coal we bad used during the
ten days we had been there. The cook returned to say Mr
Doong refused to take anything for it I called the dear old
man and protested that this would not do. He looked at me
with tears in his eyes and said, "Mother, Shepherd, will you
not allow me the privilege and pleasure of doing even this
much for you, when you and your husband have done so much
M "^^'/i^'-.T^^iJ? ^ *"^« *^° ^'^ yo" not come with this
blessed Gospel t" With full heart and dim eyes I could only
put my hands together and bow low my thanks.
When home on furlough I sent to a missionary for a photo
of Mr. Doong for a lantern slide. In due course the photo
amved with a note from Mr. Doong himself, which ran as
follows : Dear Shepherd Mother, I thank you for the compli-
ment you have paid me in asking for my photo. I would
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«eiproc«t« and Mk for youn but there ie no need /or your
After an abeenoe from oar old Held for come fire years it
WM a great joy to both my huaband and myaelf to hive Mr
Uoong onoe more our oo-worker, but it was only for a brief
penod. Our hard pre«ed doetor needed the beat man we
couW give him aa Hospital BvangeUst and Mr. Doo^wia
viS^^JS;*'"''*^**?"- There he remained tm adv^eing
years with its inoreaaing physieal Weakness forced his retire-
ment and he returned home, but not to the home of the early
L*^nv n?*? •^i.!" had been won to Christianity, as well
as many of his neighbors.
fl^k ^°1 ***'**'**••/• *»*'^ ****»•* n»*ny wise after the
flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are caUed. But Gou
♦« .h.^^'T ^\!^^^ tW"«» o^ the world that he m^t pS
to shame them that are wise. ' * ^
SKETCH IX
Heathenism As I Have Known It
Part 1— Hbathkn Vusus CnsisruM yfoaeatp.
Part 2— Facts.
Heathenism As I Have Known It
*'// ikou forbear to doUver them thai are drawn unto
death, and thoee that are ready to he slain; if thou tayeet, Be-
hold we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart
coimder itf And he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know
ttt And shall not he render to every man accordina to his
works f" {Prov. 24 : 11, 12.)
''If you can get our ehureh people to really believe the
heathen NEED the Ooq^l, you will have gone a long way to
bring about the dedred attitude towards Foreign Mianona."
So said a prominent Foreign Mi«ion Seeretary to the writer.
Another Foreign Miaion Secretary, who had spent many
years on the Foreign Field as a missionary, suggested the sub-
jeet for this Sketeh, saying, "Draw it plain, for they need to
know.".
The subject is not a pleasant one; draw the picture of
heathenism as you will, it can be only dark and repelling;
neither dare one write all one knows. . . .
1. — ^Hkatbkk Vkbsus Christian Wobship.
Missionaries and converts were gathered in full force for
their annual evangelistic campaign at one of the largest, most
important centers of heathen worship in China— the Hsun-
Hsieu Fair or Festival. Inclement weather had somewhat
delayed the influx of pilgrims. It was suggested that my hus-
baad and I take advanfa|e of this fact to make a k>ng planned
visit to the temple of the goddess Lao Nai Nai, (Old Grand-
mother) who drew to her shrine every year vast crowds of
men and Tfomen of every class. (It is estimated that during
the ten days of the winter festival alone, over a million pil-
grims kneel before this image.)
We started quite early one morning hoping thereby to
escape any possibility of great crowds. As we ascended the
hill on which the temple stood, the road was Uned on ei^r
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side with booths and mat stalla where commodities such as oil-
gnms required, were sold. There were paper babies, jnade
of briJiant colored paper on oomstolk frames. (The goddess
was believed to have power to bestow living children in return
for the naper offerings.) There were paper horses, and
women and young girls, made to look very life-like. aU of
which were supposed to turn into the real kind for the use
of the spirits beyond. Dice and gambling cards were much in
mitSSiei^kiSr "''*"'' "*'^' "'^ ^''"^ "^'^ ^«- '' '•»*
.on,?r *^® *™® '"* t*? !:®*®***^ '*»« ""i° entrance to the
emple my courage had begun to fail, and gladly would I
have backed out, but my husband felt we mu!t go on Pms-
;?i nf"*"?- J**^ ^'* «"]** r *"*«'*^ * »*^ co'rt, on either
side of which were crowds of men and women, some at tables
some seated on the ground, all feasting or gambling. In and
out among these, peddlers passed calling loudly their wares.
Utter confusion prevailed, but we had no difficulty in getting
through to the court beyond; here, however, we foimd the
crowd mcreasingly great. A large iron caldron resting on a
pedestal 8tTo<l m the center of the court surrounded by wveral
SThri"??!^*?!.*''^' waist these were dancing and ihouting
S&i*'!rlJ''* *"" m the caldron with iron sticks, the Sf
^TJ ^ L?"" P'P^"" ?f*^ *^ '»»« P***'^""- The men's
faces aiid bodies were blackened by the paper ashes The
'"^Inferoo"^ ^" ™°** fimiesome and rominded one of Dante's
The men, catching sight of us. demanded fien sly our paoer
offerings; one of them going so far as to seize me by the arm
I shrank in terror behind my husband, who urged me not t<^
!!527ki *' ?u ^J"^^ °'*^»°« on; to go back now was im-
poawble, for the who e crowd was moving on towards the right
hand flight of steps leading up to the goddess' temple. On
reaching these steps there was a pause and then a sudden rush,
strain, and crush, when I found myself landed at the top of
the steps and my husband pushing me out of the crowd into
frimfhelriwd'^'^""- ««-- -^^x* •P-t. almost hidden
What a sight the courts below presented! The crowds
seethed and crushed; hundreds of explosives seemed Zb^
fired every moment; the noise and confusion was iudescriS
Slrt i^^r H ^K*^ •'^*" were some things that made one's
heart ache. Heathenism seemed stamped upon most of the
races. Old men and women oould be seen helped
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73
younger onec 8ome of these mutt have been well on to
eighty ; ■ome were so frail and old as to be almost carried. We
knew Uiat these were old grandfathers or grandmothers being
taken to , ie goddess' shrine to ask for a grandson.
As I turned from the si|^t, sick at heart, and closed my
eyes for a moment, I seemed to forget my surroundings and be-
fore me rose a vivid scene in the dear homeland. I seemed
to be once more in the old seat in Knox Church, Toronto. Our
beloved, white-haired pastor, Dr. Parsons stood at the Com
munion Table. And I could hear him say, " That I might
know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellow-
ship of I 'is sufferings." The quietness, the reverential wor-
ship, the aolemnity of the whole scene seemed as real as if I
were there. But oh, the cnnti^st as I opened my eyes on the
scene before us! That was Christian — this heathen worship!
Taking advanta;,e of a lull in the crowd, we entered the
temple. On one side a group of Buddhist priests at a table
were counting the money offerings. In the center was the
shrine of the goddess, the image itself being far back almost
out of sight Immediately in front of the image a brass ring
was scvpended. A railing kept the pilgrims from getting too
near, and as they knelt at this rail they threw their offerings
through this ring. If the cash or coppers passed safely
through the ring their petitions were sure to be granted!
This, of course, encouraged many trys. It is said many mil-
lions of cash are thus offered year by year The Buddhist
priests use this money largely in gambling, druiikeness, and
evil living.
We bad seen enough. Qraduatly we made our way out by
a baek gate through the kindnem of a frleiujly tHiinese. We
Eassed a sroal) side ^hriue ml behind the gmiilcaa' teiupte
ooking inside 1 nottoed wn^i peemed like a bundle of filthy
rags, but seeing it move, \ jmiked elwer and found beneath
a beggar — dying of staivatloii. f^rbiu a near by eat-
ing house we jpi'ucurea a nuwl of hot soup, but the poor crea-
ture was too far gone for help. There at the very foot of the
heathen goddfws the man died, with multitudes of her de-
votees passing him by without a thought of pity or sense of
responsibility towards a fellow being. As soon as his last
breath would be drawn, yes, and knowing what I do of
heathenism, I dare say, even before, he would be taken out,
thfOWIl into a hole and barely covered ; while his poor beggar
ra^ Would be claimed by other beggars who perhaps before
long, caisc to share the same fate. That ia heathenism !
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II.~Pact8.
"Tk* tender NMToiM of th« Am^Am are cruel."
Some y«u« ago my hnsbuid and I went to a certain out
b^ore we amyed a nun had kiUed one of the «>ldie« iTJ
«^t The man ewaped, but waaUter caught. (Theutterin
E!Mf?:i^u?***.*^?^«^™*«P<*«We, even probaMe the
SSf^"£i''"S^"**fJ He wa. taken befoJ;7he,Siit^
chief who aaid, "Sinee the man haa killed one of vonnelvM
you can do a* you like with him. " ^^ younelvea
Pot three daya, whUe a pUtform waa beinc erected th*
^ bJ SSSTi ''^ ""^- .'^* P^^'o™ o» ''Wch he
waa to oe ezeeuted waa erected quite doae to wham wa Ui,»a
r'i::!r^arf'^ "^ '^««™ «d*L "J;: pr^L^if
a great multitude of men, women, and children waa cmellv
S2S!n ^«*T?* **/ •^•™*- The awful detaila of thi
S2?^«?^!J^P"'.*°P»P^ That evening I eaUed our
Si2liS;?^i.'?u"^ ^^' "Pleaae writolut a. ftdl a
^S^t^ "^^ »-f,*«ken place a. po«ble, for I wSh tS
^mt^£:^!^ " '"^ "^^^ -"^^ *"'**^-
"But what ia the nae, Teacher Mother r This it not an
si^^ssLli^^''* '^ ^^ ■^^'^•" •" -- ^ -<>-
..«,!£!* ST ~^^ be aaid on thia phaae of heatheniam-
cruelty. But we do noi wiah to dwell longer than neewM^
Jdth^hl?w**Jif'r? K "'^^ ^^ y«" °' «»««» contact
^ i,.Mlir«?^P»*' ^ *'*''* *!?T ^° '*«' **»•* this heartleae-
(^e outstaiidi^ illTatration of thia. Li Shan Pao waa the
-on of one of our Evangeliata ; he war » young lad of pZ^
nZr^^S^^ day he and K>me other lada were by the river
near the aehool. Li Shan Pao undreaaed and went in for a
was atill cold. He swam aeroaa the river and about half way
encfc, when he seemed to get into difficuitiea. The other la^
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75
on the ahore called frantieally to a paaaing boat for a«iatanee.
The men on thia boat by jnat patting out an oar, or atretehing
out a helping hand, could have aaved the boy, but though the
lada on ahore kept offering more and more money the only
auawer they received waa, " It 'a not enough ! ' ' Then over the
drowning boy they went without an effort to aave him ! When
the miaaioRariea came on the acene and drew the boy out, he
waa quite beyond help. That i$ Heath4num. Unt terrible ^i
the guilt of theae men may aeem to us, yet are they not more
guilty who deliberately eloae their eyea to their peramaal re-
aponaibility towarda the dying aoula of their felk>wmen,
whether at Home or on the Foreign Field f
The practice of Infanticide, which ia one of the meat ter-
rible fruita of heatheniam, is far more eommon than many be-
lieve. For aeveral years I scarce v knew of ita exiatenoe till
my work began to take me out am y the people. The three
eaaea which I ahall confine myaelf i., in thia Sketch, came to
my notice within a abort time of each other.
When preaching in a district among the hills Northwest
of Changte, my huaband, through what aeemed a mere accident,
found out that the euatom eziated through a wide region, of
putting all girU but one to death tU birth in each family I This
they juatifi^l by aaying the grain and water would not be auf-
fldent for all if the population waa not kept down !
A Chineae woman, belonging to a well-to-do family, call«Kl
to aee me one day. She had a beautiful baby boy in her arms.
Her huaband had juat become a Christian and she aeemed in-
terested and some time later became one of our leuding Chria-
tian women. But how dark her heart waa then can be aeen
by what followa. A few weeka after her first viait ahe came
again, but without the baby. The following oonveraation took
place:
"Why! Where is your beautiful boyt"
"Oh, it's thrown away."
"But it waa quite well when you came before. What
diaeaae did it havet"
"It did not have anything wrong." By thia time I felt
there muat be aomething not right and determined to find out
the truth. At laat the woman told thia atory. One cold night
the baby waa lying on the outaide of the "lung" or brick bed,
it got out from under her cover and rolled off on to the floor.
It waa quite naked for the Chineae do not use ni|^t dothea,
and inatMd of the mother taking the child up dl the cold
brick fioor, she let it scay there all night. When ahe picked it
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op in the mornmg it was dead. I uid, *0h, how could you
•e w cruel t " She replied with a Uugh, ' ' I had plenty of other
<»udren and did not want the bother I"
Whoi at an out-atation a man brought a little baby, aaking
me to give it aomething to atop its crying aa the mother waa
ao tired of hearing it cry she did not want the child. I could
not find anything the matter with the little one and told the
father ao. Some days Uter I law the man in the yard and
aaked about the baby. He said it waa "thrown away" mean-
ing dead. I caUed my Bible woman and told her to find out
the cauae of the child '■ death. Thia is the atory the father
told her. On returning home the mother received her huaband
with angry looks saying, "I told you I don't want it; take it
away. The father took the little one to a field away from the
-illage and making a hole put the baby into it. but aa he ran
away the child a criea cauaed him to return and take it out
again, but when the little one kept on crying he became im-
pat ent and throwing it back, covered it over and returned
home. Who can aay how man children meet a like fate in
thia heathen land every yearf
What can one say of the inji ice, cruelty, and oppreaaion
meted out to vaat numbera of yo ng bridea and the younaer
wivea and women by the oldtr ontx or their huabandaf The
marriage euatoma of China whic^ lemand that a young wo-
man be under the care of, or rati guarded and watchS. by
her mother-in-law m necestary so ung as the morality of tl^
T u^ Bible woman and I were preaching in a heathen home.
1 bad noUeed a very fine young woman of about twenty among
our listeners. As we were preaching criea and aoba came
from a room to the aide of the court where we were. I aigned
11 7" *^* *° ^^^ °"' ^'*® **^^- ^ 'e^ momenta later she
called me out, and led me to the room from which the cries
had come. As we paased through the court I noticed a poor
Idiot boy, a most pitiful sight. I found in the room we enter-
ed the fine young woman I had noticed among our listeners
She was sitting on the brick bed, a picture of utter despair
iJT ^u'® ■*'**'"*"« <^ow° he' cheeks, and as she rocked her-
self back and forth she moaned and sometimes cried aloud,
always the same worda,— "Oh, it ia for life, for life!" I
tried to discover the cause but failed. The only thing anyone
would say was, "She often takes these turns." On our way
home my women told me the truth. This beautiful girl in the
pnme of bfc had been married to the idiot boy. The boy^s
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family needed a strong woman of ability to do their weaving
and sewing. An extra gift to the Go-between on condition
she oecured such a wife for the idiot boy procured for them
what they wanted. But what did they care for the broken
heart f They were Aea^Aen/
The last phase of heathenism I will touch upon i»—It»
utter hopeleunets in face of Death. Again and again have
I asked heathen women what they had to look forward to after
death ; one and all have said, only horror and fear. Never
has the story of my own dear Mother's wonderful death,
passing as she did with the very Glory of heaven shining on
her face, failed to move an audience of heathen women : again
and again have they come to me at such times saying, "We
want to know how to die like that. We suffer cnou^ here,
how can we go where there is no more suiSFeringf "
Many dark seenea come to mind as I write; but what I
have given is sufficient to justify us in saying that Heathen-
ism is cruel; it is wicked, and heartless, and selfish, yes, and
devilish I
If THOU forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto
DEATH ... He that keepeth THY SOUL doth not He
know itf"
SKETCH X
The Blind Famine Refugee
The Blind Famine Refugee
in wJU^ak/I V^"*^' *»'««' one 'or thoM living
^cSS '. sS;!''?^.- A^u' «^t Yellow River, truly called
ii«r!?*i.Sr"''' ,*"'^.*"*"* '^ »»nkt, devMtating a large
fISLi SS^ populated ooontry. In .pite of well ?rgani2d
J^^J^^f^"""*^^ ^y mi«ionarie. and other repl^
fSm flZ^f '«"»«" ^"ntrie. (wme of whom loat their liv^
S£ f.i^! "22"*** ^TP't**"* '" '«'°» *«• o' theTlliSiTn
JJ" '"»"»• wpon. On the cold brick floor juat in front of
i« ml' SZ ^^R* ^^'"J "W Fa-ine WM dSing
SLS^^?}«^^2?**° **"" ''°' * ''^ ''•^^ '^''e' -'laying
»M*w»rda and forwarda moaning piteoualy. On the oDDoaite
warmth, alept a little boy of about lix yean of ase
kn.^tK**^^i *^* ~^** P^»"«- "»«»»» th" PooTwoman had
bielt there liatamng to the hard breathing which toS what
Jhe eould not «M5.-that the end wa. near. L the day dawn^
^mi!l?™f*!*' ••^ ^"•"y' "^'^ the quieted d
t'^nll'ht'jra'i^r^.X." ^ ' ''"''■ ■'°"^'" '^^^ "^°-
t«f **K^#"*' "*^ ■**? heaitated. Where ahould they cro
dde ^lI'^ZA'T^'^r '^^'^ *^ """^^ them on %eS
Se «,^w!^/*T*^*"**^« ^*" «*"»• into h« mind
the remembrance of what aomeone had aaid long before--tSt
a long wray off, .bout one hundred mile, dis^t UvST^n
who cou^d give sight to the bUnd. Quiddy^th TaeLTof
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the shelter of a wayride temple. Sometimes a whole day would
pass when they failed to obtain even the few crumbs of black
mouldy bread (made chiefly of chaff) usually thrown to them.
liater, when attempting to teU the story of these days the
poor woman seemed able to recaU litUe else than the ever
present dread she had, lest when they reach the doorway of
the wonderful man who could give sight to the blind, it would
perhaps be closed against them. Needless to say these fears
were groundless, for when at last the mother and child
reached the Mission gate almost dead from starvation and ex-
haustion, kmd loving hands received them. They were taken
into the Women's Hospital, cleansed, clothed, and fed.
The day following their arrival one of the missionaries
went to Mrs. Ma, for such was the blind woman's name and
said:
"Mrs. Ma, I have been sent to tell you that the doctor has
great hopes of restoring your sight But yon are far too weak
for the operation yet. He says you are to have all the food
you can eat, and that I am to get you anything you fancy.
Now just tell me what you want"
At first the poor woman could not take it in. Then when
Mrs. S , repeated what she had said, and the meaning
began to dawn upon her, she stretched out her hands and with
an indeseribably touching ezy in her voice said, "If it is true
indeed that I can reaUy have what I most crave for, then oh,
please just give me a little SALT ! "
Reader, you, who have never known want, can scarcely
comprehend the full significance of that request "Just a
little salt!" What deprivation, what agony of want is re-
vealed in that word ! To those of us who had seen something
of the sufferings of famine victims, it meant volumes.
With tender loving care Mrs. Ma was nursed back to
strength and health ; but many weeks passed before the doc-
tor pronounced her fit to stand the operation. Sight was re-
stored to one eye, the other being quite beyond recovery. With
glasses she was able to learn to read. The woman's gratitude
knew no bounds. At first her eagerness to hear the Goispel
and learn to read was largely due to this intense gratitude,
but gradually the "True Light" entered her soul, and she be-
came a sincere, earnest, humble Christian. Later she was ap-
pointed matron of the Women's Hospital where for twenty
years she worked faithfully for the salvation of the women in
the hospital
Mrs. Ma's little son was put into the Boys' School soon
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after their amval As the yean went by he pwaed through
one MiMion School mto another, untU he reached Jie UidSn
Medical CoUege of Peking. His whole life as a studenHS
been such that the missionaries felt amply justified in JayW
M n 'S^ *^'^«i,*^ ^^<^^ course. He received hJ
^:P-'«^^?^^«'^^y^^ehhononml9 . A large hos-
rl!fn« n^'Ht *^° ^"^^f^ ^ *^ important city in^North
hS«i 4 ^* T *?.^ *° ^^°^« ^o'^ physician of this
n.^^ o « nf^!.^'^ appointment to this position he
mamed a fine Christian girl, one of the most promising
graduates of the Women's College of Peking ^^
♦K-J^iT" "?* ^r *°^ *^- ^'« ""^ ^o°»e near the hospital
that the writer iMt saw old Mrs. Ma who was there on aVisit
to her son. She had long been too frail for active work. Her
sight was gone, but the reflection of an inner light iUumined
her countenimce as we recalled together the goodness of the
Ijord since the day she arrived at the Mission gate a Door
starved Blind Beggar Refugee seeking Light. ^
SKETCH XI
Links in a Living Chain
Links in a Living Chain
A poor suflfering woman lay in the ward of the Womena'
Hoyitel at Changte. She had been there for over a month,
ilad she come earlier her life might have been saved, but
Ignorance and fear had kept her back tiU the terror of Death
drove her to the Miasion Hospital.
Aa the Missionary Doctor entered with her assistants the
woman's face brightened up with a glad welcome smile.
How much have you learnt to-day!" said the doctor
bending over her kindly.
"Oh, doctor, I'm so stupid, and the pain is «o bad I can't
learn like the others. But oh, doctor, I have learnt this," and
as she spoke she drew out from under the coverlet a sheet of
paper on which was printed in Urge Chinese characters the
hymn Jesus Loves Me. " And as she crooned over slowly the
four verses making some sli. the doctor listened patiently,
correcting when needed. Then with a few tender words she
passed on through the wards.
Not many days later, Mrs. Chang, the sick woman, had to
be told nothing more could be done for her but she must
return home to die. The tong journey home over rough stonv
roads was borne with amazing fortitude, for had not her
life been one long lesson in bearing hardness. For weeks
she lay on the brick bed in her home at Linchang, a wonder
to her family and neighbors. What was the secret of the
change? She had left them with the horror and dread of
death upon her face. She returned with her face shining with
joy and openly stating she no longer feared death although
she Imew her days were few. She seemed happy and in peace.
The hymn sheet was always in her hand and when asked why
she was not afraid to die she would point silently to the second
verse of the hymn and then chant aloud, trying to sing as she
had heard others sing in the Hospital, but though the tune
she sang could not have been recognized it sounded sweet in
the ears of One who heard. Over and over that second verse
was repeated for it contained that which was the Hope of her
soul:
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"Jeww loves me, He who died,
Heaven's gate to open wide,
He will wash away my sin,
Let His little child come in!"
bo«"and%rf/«^T' ""Sf^ .according to Chinese custom neigh-
en" ^ M„;'11T''k*? u^ the chamber of death to see the
fn ;», ^^^P« «■ «>? *»ad breath she urged her husband to so
might a^ZZT^l'^'f ''' ^T^'- S^« begJS that noSe
tTere I wni t. Pw *° ""ffP'i?' "*« «^«J. "I ''"l "ot be
as If to welcome someone as she pised away °^'
\fJru ®^* °[ *\"' deathbed scene was truly remarkable
Mr Chang her husband, her only son and daughter Td in's
septi^erMrctn^'.^^^^^^^^^^ ^ ^"*"«» -^'^^ had
separated Mr. Chang and his eldest brother for ten years was
r?ew Zn?h« n«" ^r'i'' ''^^"^^ ^ ««"«t Christi^ On^
f amn V tS ^' "^^^ ^ *''^,' °^ '"^«'« t^'ting came to this
tamily. The son's wife was taken ill and died. Durinir her
t^ Christi^' f''^ Bhe witnessed as wonderfurtSony
to the Christian's hope as her mother-in-law.
«,«.: i"*'^^^" °°. *^® «*«t side of the Chang's homestead
were a large influential family named Pan. The youn^rM^
Chang's death-bed scene so touched one of the yoTg^m^ S
this family tha he determined to break away from the
heathenism of his home and become a follower of ChrT Hk
in L ^.^^^Hv'^ '?A'.' ^°' *^« ^'^ t^*t he influenc™ mSy
irnl. ♦^ • [^ until they were on the point of turning awav
ba^d ind'l h^i^'"''""' ^' ^?^ "' thi« Juncture that Jy JS^
band and I began an aggressive evangelistic campaign in this
frf«°T *^«>^, ^r*' «»d P-eat hop^ were felt thf? the en
tire family would become Christian, when as in the case of Dr
Srized^Jh! ^^^^'^^. ? ^^"^^^^ ^ serS^f eJeXi £r
S fh-! V*""''/ ^^^^ ^^I ^^^'^ ^ y«*r they refused to believe
their be i.?' ^^r, ^«^ ^^^ting against them for changSg
their belief. And is it any wonder? Almost immediately
after young Mr. Fan became a Christian one calamity after
another came upon the family till the climax was wach^
to SiZ' °V^' ^'^*^^'' ~"°' «^"* f°"^teen ye^ old wTt
to visit a relative some ten miles distant. He never r^hed
i mtiZ'' ^''^t disappeared and was never hea^ of^
In ^ tK Tif ''•^''■^?,''^'* ^^^ ^"""^^ * meeker after St
ni -L w^ ^'*'°'' ^*^ apparently well was taken suddenly
iJl and before even a neighbor could be caUed passed away.
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liut in spite of these thiugH, which to the heathen people
of Linchang were certain proofs of the power of the gods to
take revenge, young Mr. Fan stood true and within a year
had won back several of his family. From this time the church
grew in Linchang. Within a few years a nice Christian church
and school house was erected by the Christians within sight of
the Fans' home, the evangelist in charge also being supported
by themselves.
Some years later it was the writer's privilege to assist her
husband in a series of special meetings held in this little Lin-
chang church, which during the ten days of the "Mission"
was filled to its utmost capacity. Not soon could one forget
the scenes of those days when one after another consescrated
himself afresh to the Lord.
Two cases stand out prominently. One was that of a
wealthy landowner who also was partner in a prominent busi-
ness concern in Linchang. At considerable financial loss to
himself he gave up this business to become a preacher of the
Gospel. The second case was that of a proud Confuci&n
scholar who at that time held a position of head teacher in a
government school. He also caught the vision which forced
him to resign his position in order to preach the Gospel.
Many times during those days as I witnessed the Holy
Spirit working in the hearts of these men and women and
saw signs of the light of the Gospel beginning to spread
throughout that whole region I thought of that first little seed
of truth sown in the heart of the poor suffering woman as she
lay in the women's hospital in Changte.
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SKETCH XII
Our First Woman Convert
Our First Woman Convert
A Mere Memory.
The lollowiiig ifl but a brief memory of tlu- long goin- pa«t
*.ven the name of the womau in for|fottt-n but not the look on
her pale patient face as she lay for weekn in the Mission
Hospital— our first womau iu-patieiit. TJiough almost thirtv
years have come and gone since those earliest days in Nort'h
Uoiian the memory of this womau rtmaius as one of the verv
few bright gleamg in what was to us pioueer missionaries *a
time ot darkness and peril.
The people were still bitter against us though a year ha<i
passed smee a foothold ha.l been gained in what we had so
ong looked forwaid to as our •Promised Land." Stories of
the vilest nature widely circulated and believed did much
to hinder the progress of the Gospel, and make the people
fear and hate us. They believed we were capable of the verv
worst atrocities. Were I to attempt the plain record of manv
of these stories British law would forbid the publication '
It IS little wonder, therefore, that our good doctor, a mau
ot exceptional ability who had left bri"iant prospects behind
to come to China chafed under the pet.y cases which came to
the Hospital, and had more than once openly expressed his
wish for some "good cases" which would help to open the
people s hearts towards us. Before long his wish was abun-
*«-!/ ^^\I^\^ ^°^ ^'''■^ y^'**^ '«*^'' ^hat hospital recorded
twenty-exght thousand treatments in one year, p goodly pro-
portion being "good" cases. ^ ^
The beginning of the breaking of the ice of prejudice
came when one day a man wheeled into the hospital yard a
barrow on which lay his sick wife. He seemed very loath to
come but his poor wife appeared past feeling. It was most
evident that only the hope of relief from otherwise certain
forei *^°d '"<^"«e<^ **»«"» to risk coming for help to the
A little later the doctor announced a serious operation im-
perative To this the woman gave her consent but the man
hesitated. How impossible it is for those brought up in a
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Westeru land to form any conception of the struggle the man
went through in face of such a sweeping away of life-long pre-
''-^elS ** "" ^'"'^ °^ ^^** ^®** *°^"y' ^^"^^'^^
Oh how we prayed for that case I There we were, a mere
handful of missionaries in the midst of a bitterly hostile peo-
ple many of whom were only waiting and watching for an
excuse to attack and murder us. Should the operation prove
tatal and the woman die under the doctor's knife it would
have been quite sufficient to stir up a mob whi.^h would in all
probability have destroyed us all. But the operation passed
saiely and during the weeks of convalescence the doctor's wife
told into willing ears the message of a Saviour who died to
open Heaven s door." From the first the woman showed a
wonderful keeness in learning the truth. While still unable to
sit upright and scarcely strong enough to hold her book she
studied almost constantly the simple Christian Catechism
One day to my great surprise as I responded to a timid
tap at my do^ ■, I found this dear woman shrinking and uncer-
tam as to whether she would be admitted, and almost fainting
rom weakness. I led her gently in and as she lay on the sofa
we talked together of the blessed Saviour. After all these
years the joy I felt in speaking of the precious truths to this
hrst Christian Woman of North Honan, stiU remains She
seemed even then to have her thoughts turned toward
Memity for she loved to have me dwell on the Heavenly
tlome, and the hymn she loved best was :
"My home is in Heaven, my home is not here."
Soon her visits became quite regular and as she lay on the
lounge hstenmg and asking questions she was not the only
one who was learning for many were the lessons she uncon-
sciously taught me of fortitude under suffering, and the
sunpleness of childlike trust. It seemed at times aa if every
separate fruit of the Spirit in that glorious cluster could be
seen m this very babe in Christ. Love, joy, peace, long-suffer-
ing, gentleness, faith, meekness, all just shone from her coun-
tenance. One day shortly before her return home she asked a
question concemmg the Holy Spirit which showed what won-
derful progress she had made in spiritual understanding
Although she left us apparently cured, a few months saw
her back again for treatment. It was then she was received
as our first Probationer for Baptism but long before the year
of probation had ended she had passed away in certain hope
of entering into the Presence of her Saviour
SKETCH XIII
Two "Rice" Christians
Part 1— The "Wolf Bot."
Part 2— The "Wolf Boy's" Mothbb.
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Two "Rice" Christians
Part I. The "Wolf Boy."
As one travels Westward from the city of Changte, the
comitry becomes more and more mountainous and rocky.
Villages throughout that region are fre<iuently troubled, dur-
ing the cold winter season, by wolves, desperate with hunger
J^fni* i"*^uS*' ^"^*«^ **^^^^ ^"J"""K ««<i sometimes
carrying off children.
During the winter of a lad about fourteen years of
age^ named Cheng (surname) Woo-tse (given name), left his
home near Changte to visit an aunt living in a vi laire ten
mi^ west of that city. One day, as the lad was goinTon i
Srt^^' * ff f "^""^^ ^^^ **°^ **^« ^"Ja«e street, and, be-
fore he could be driven away, jumped upon the boy clawing
and eating part of his face. j ms
For months the ignorant villagers did what they could to
relieve the poor boy's terrible sufferings; but, alas, those who
are at all acquainted with Chinese methods of treatment know
how worse than useless such attempts would be. Only when
It became apparent the boy would die were the people willing
for him to be taken to the Mission Hospital.
Naturally this most unusual case aroused great interest:
all came to know of the "Wolf Boy" as he was called. For
almost a year he remained in hospital, carefully and tenderly
nursed by his mother; her devotion to her bov being most
noticeable. ' » "-^
ntJ^f^fn?'*^^ f"i ^'l assistants set themselves to do their
thftTi ^Y ^^^y ?^* ^'^ <>°« <>* ^^ °»08t difficult cases
that had ever been in the hospital. The doctor sought to give
the boy, as far a^ It was possible, a new face; but, after
ZIw^l'*''!^'?^ tr^tment and clever grafting, he was onlv
partly succ^ful. He succeeded in saving the sight of one
eye and m forming practically a new mouth. But after the
doctor had done aU it was possible to do the boy still remained
^"*'°-^!i<'"'>^'« si«ht he was forced to wear a mask
While m the hospital all those months this poor torn lad
won the hearts of all by his gratitude for every kindness, his
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cheerfulness and patience under great suffering, and his
simple loving nature. The kindness sho»/n them opened the
hearts of both mother and son to the Goapel message and both
became Christians. It was the boy, however, who received the
stoiy of the Saviour's Sacrifice with real joy. What it meant
to him came out one evening at the weekly prayer-meeting.
The little group of Christiana gathered were startled and
deeply touched when the "Wolf Boy" suddenly began to
pray ; his face was so bound as to make speech difficult but
this is what he said :
"O Lord! I thank Thee for letting the wolf eat my face,
for if he had not I might never have heard of this wonderful
Saviour."
When at last the time came for the boy and his mother to
leave the hospital, the missionaries felt it would be heartless
to turn the boy adrift to th*^ '. mder mercies of the heathen,"
so gave him the situation of . r er-carrier for their yard. Here
he lived and worked amongst us for some years.
The writer can never forget this boy's sympathy and sor-
row when one of the little foreign children, whom he looked
upon as his friends, became sick unto death. Outside the sick
child's door he waited and waited every moment he could
spare from his work, hoping and praying for the word of hope
that was not to come. When, at last, he was told the precious
spirit was no longer with us, his grief was most touching.
Pour years later the boy left us to take a situation at an
adjoining mission station. Near this mission a river, wide and
deep, flowed. It was here the wolf boy met his death. When
bathing with some other lads he was carried out of *-" depth
and drowned.
Many years have passed since this humble servant diied,
but there still remains in many a heart a warm remembrance
of the lad, so physically hampered, but through whom the
Christ-life shone so brightly as to make him a blessing and an
example to those who biew him.
Part II. Thb"Wolp Boy's" Motheb.
"Faithful in that which is least."
The following brief sketch is a true and grateful tribute to
the faithfulness of one who has been to the writer one of the
greatest blessings a mother, with little children, could have —
a faithful, devoted nurse.
As I write there comes before me a vivid picture of the
scene in the hospital ward where I first saw Mrs. Cheng. On
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the wide bnck platform or bed, which reached across one end
of the room from wall to waU, were stretched a number of
patients, each one on their own thin mattress or bedding, and
each attended by their own friends; foreign nurses being un-
known in China then. In the further corner of this "kang"
or general bed, Mrs. Cheng bent over her poor mangled son
whose face was completely hidden by bandages.
On that first visit I remember being much impressed with
the mother's soft voice and quiet dignified manner, and with
her extreme gentleness in tending her child. Each subsequent
visit increased the desire to secure this woman as a nurse for
my children. Soon the opportunity came.
Mrs. Cheng soon found that months instead of days or
weeks must elapse, before her child could leave the hospital
The question as to how she could support herself and her son
while in the hospital became a serious one; she, therefore,
gladly accepted my offer to meet their expenses in return for
her help some hours each day with the children. By the time
the doctor had pronounced the "Wolf Boy" ready to leave
the hospital, Mrs. Cheng had proved herself such a blessing
and treasure" in our home that a warm welcome awaited her
trom the children as weU as their mother and she was installed
as their permanent nurse.
Less than one year after Mrs. Cheng came to us, that ter-
rible cataclysm of horror— the Boxer uprising— took place
and we were all ordered to flee. With four smaU children the
thought of that long cart journey without Mrs. Cheng was ap-
palling; but would she comet Her boy stiU needed her to
dress his face, and her old mother, of almost eighty, to whom
she was greatly devoted, looked constantly to her for help
We laid our need before her and for one day she hesitated
going about the house as if dazed. At evening she came with
tears, saying, "Shepherd Mother, I must go with you. My old
mother weeps but tells rae to go. My boy needs me, but he, too.
says I must go, for the children need me most."
Days and weeks of terrible experiences followed, during
which Mrs. Cheng proved herself a blessing to the sorely tried
mother. Again and again she was tested as few have ever
been : how she stood the tests we shall see.
The story of that journey has already been written, and
only what specially concerns Mrs. Cheng will here be men-
tioned.
On the eleventh day of the journey a band of armed men
came down upon our party like an avalanche, and in the melee
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Mrs. Cheng and our little daughter, Ruth, became separated
from us. Can we ever forget, how, when men stood over the
faithful nurse demanding the child, she refused to give her
up, but lay upon the little one, and took blow after blow upon
her own body T Only the greed for loot saved them, for the
nien seeing others getting our things left them to get their
share.
That same night when again our party was facing what
•eemed almost certain massacre, several Chinese came to Mrs
Cheng urging her to leave us, promising to see that she would
be taken safely back to her home if she would, but she refused.
About 2 o'clock that morning I heard the sound of weep-
ing in the courtyard ; going out I found Mrs. Cheng sitting by
the steps weeping bitterly, and moaning aloud :
r if ™^>* i?' ^ ™^* ^°' *^®y °®®<* ^^' even if they kill me
1 win go. Sitting down beside her we clung in our distress
to each other. Then a strange thing happened. Two Chinese
women came creeping towards us through the dark court, and
kneehng down at our feet took our hands in theirs. Almost
too surprised for words I said :
"Are you Christians?"
"We don't understand," they replie-l
Then why have you come to us now / '
"Because our hearts feel sorrow for you." These words
but imperiectly convey the beautiful and touching sympathy
of these heathen women, for as they spoke, tears were in their
eyes, and their look and manner meant more than words. Be-
fore I had time to say more than a few words to the.a the call
came to get into our carts.
Once, during the wonderful day of deliverances that fol-
lowed, the cry was raised by the mob that surrounded our
carts:
"Get the nurse out, drag her out, we will have her : ' ' And
for a few terrible moments it seemed we would lose her, but
God in His great mercy heard the cry that went up for her
A man came through the crowd, evidently one of some influ-
ence, and shouted: "Don't touch her, leave her alone; don't
you see there are children and they need her?" So we were
allowed to pass on.
In those terrible days that followed, when almost starved,
when sickness came to first one and then another, when ali
were exhausted and tried to the lost point of endurance, Mrs.
Cheng thought not for one moment of herself, but only for
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those she served. During all those hard, hard days not a word
of complaint or of her own sufferings escaped her.
Almost a month from the time we left our home we reached
Shanghai and here we had to part with our faithful helper
It was arranged that Mrs. Cheng should go to a friend of ours
m Chefoo till the troubles were over, and we return to the
Homeland.
Last words of farewell were being said at Mrs. Cheng's
cabin door, as her steamer was about to leave. The dear wo-
man clung to me unwilling to part and her last words were:
"Oh, ray Shepherd Mother, do take good care of the chil-
dren ! So smiles were mixed with tears as we parted.
Two years passed. Conditions were once more becoming
normal, or nearly so. Missionaries were returning to their
various stations, but could we, who had been through that
Baptism of Blood, ever be just the same a6 before ? We had
OIK*! mI^t*'®^ ^°^ further servicp, while others had been
IKANbLATED, Surely we had been saved to serve as never
before. A new and difficult life was entered upon— the open-
ing of new out-stations, the breaking of new ground. All
through the years of that life when traveling constantly from
place to place, Mrs. Cheng was a patient and willing sharer
m all the hardness and a never failing source of comfort to
me. Never once in all those years, that I can recall, did this
woman ever get really angry or even out of temper with the
children, and it was a life that tried temper and patience to
the utmost.
The years have passed on and with them the little children
from our care, but Mrs. Cheng remains. Although sixty years
of age she appears in some things to be renewing her youth !
piirujg the recent war, when we women were trying to do our
"bit" through the Red Cross, Mrs. Cheng came to me one day
and begged me to allow her to take my place at the sewing ma-
chine. At first I refused, but finally let her try but with some
fear lest she break the needle. To my great surprise she was
soon able to go on with the Red Cross work quite alone ; in-
deed she came to make the soldiers' garments so well as to
call forth special praise from the R«d Cross Headquarters.
This greatly surprised me, for I could never get her to at-
tempt to learn the machine when the children were small. One
day I asked her why this was so, and her reply was :
"Then I could not learn because the children filled mv
heart, now, my Shepherd Mother, it is empty ! "
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Let u« ia^, m oloung, a peep into Mn. Cheng 'a own home.
At break of dawn on New Year's morning, 1918, Mrs. Cheng,
her only remaining son and his wife, and their three children,
were busily engaged preparing their New Year's feast, which
consisted of dozens (amounting probably to hundreds) of tiny
meat dumplings, each one just large enough for one (t)
luscious, mouthful. (These dumplings are to the Chinese at
the New Year season what turkey and plum pudding are to
the Westerner.)
When all was ready, even the pot or rather large caldron,
at boiling point awaiting the precious dumplings, Mrs. Cheng
gathered her household around her and together they knelt
and worshipped the Christian's Gtod. Heathen neighbors
pthered about the open doorway and watched, in wonderinjf
but respectful silence, the kneeling group, and listened to their
hymn of praise. Worship over, while the rest dropped dump-
lings into the bubbling water, Mrs. Cheng preached to the
curious and questioning neighbors. Telling me of it after-
wards she said,— "Of course, I could not preach, but I just
told them what I knew of the Lord Jesus."
Oh, that all God's more favored children in every land
would do just THAT.
SKETCH XIV
Daybreak in One Home
Part 1— Little Slave.
Part 2— Slave's Father.
Part 3— Slave's Release.
If-
Daybreak in One Home
Part I. Little Slave.
1 1 ?"*j **l ^^'^ '"°"^ wonderlul things about this wonderful
old land of Chuia, is the number, size and length of her great
waterways. Millions of her people live, yes and die, on he
large and small craft (chiefly tht- latter) which ply ur ind
down these great streams.
Twenty-five days' hauling up one of these rivers ir m the
Port of Tientsin, brings us to the town of Swiusen. There
can be little doubt but that this place dates far back, for not
far distant can be still seen the ruins of what was once— three
thousand five hundred years ago, or before Moses led the
Children of Israel out of Egypt.— the flourishing capitol of
the Kingdom of China.
The Wang family, for many generations, had made their
home m this curious old town of Swinsen. To trace the his-
tory of one section of this family, as I think you would lik.'
to hear it, we shall have to go back forty years. Could we
about that time, have taken a peep through one of the gate-
ways on a narrow street of this town, we would have seen a
strange sight.
Standing in the centre of the court, and surrounded by a
rough mocking group, was a young girl. She was dressed in
all the gaudy garments of an Eastern Bride, but her finery
served only to show forth the more conspicuously how un-
generous Nature had been in the matter of good looks. Tall
and very thin, with a slouchy uncertain manner which gave
her loose ill-fitting garments the appearance of being made
for another, and with deep smallpox marks covering her face
and only partially concealed by powder and paint, she certain-
ly did not appear the beautiful bride they had been led to
expect.
A storm of ridicule and scorn was kept up by the group
surrounding her. "Evidently," said one, "she has been
brought up in a poorly-managed home or why have her feet
been allowed to grow so large T"
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•)^ ere we not promiMd a beautiful, rich, clever, bride,
with tiny hetT said another. And the stonn of abuiM' upon
the innocent girl and abwuit "go-between" became so bitter aa
to make the poor creature shrink in terror. At Ust, like an
animal brought to bay, the turned pleadingly towards a bright
young man standing on the outskirta of the group, iiei- bride-
groom of a day, who till that moment teemed heartUy to enjoy
the fun of tormenting her. Catching her pleading terrifled
look he flushed as if with ahame; then calling out sharply,—
"Enough, enough! Ut her alone. She is not to blame, and
anyway, she is here to stay." With this he gave her a not un-
gentle puflh towards the door of their apartment, then
hastened through the gate and disappeared down the street.
As is the custom in China the Wang household was ruled
with a rod of iron by the old grandmother. And the old lady
certainly had her hauda full for there were four sous, and four
daughters-in-law, also numerous grandchildren. The new
daughter-in-law was no favorite with her, and young Mrs.
Wang, aa we ahall call her, had • bard and bitter life. All the
women of the family joined in making her tlu- drudge. f)ne
would have to understand heathesiam and the conditions of a
heathen home to fully comprehend what refinement of cruelty
and meanness can be exercised by women under like circum-
stances. Again ii. ' again Mrs. Wang was tempted, as she
knew so many other brides had been, to end her wretchedueaa
by jumping down the well or taking opium poison, but some-
thing seemed to keep her from this awful deed.
One day there arrived to comfort the poor girl's heart a
tiny stranger. Because it waa a girl the other members of the
family took no interest in its arrival, but the mother's heart,
crushed and starved for so long, went out to her little
daughter. She thought long for a beautiful name for her, and
at last decided to call her "Lily Blossom." But when the old
grandmother heard of her choice of a name she was furious,
and asserted her authority in no uncertain manner, declaring,
"No girl in my family will ever receive such a name. Why! it
is just tempting the fairies to send us only girb Her name is
to be SLAVE." And Slave she was called.
"The child grew up pretty and attractive, surprisingly so
considering the coarse and unattractive surroundings in which
she lived. She waa her mother's constant companion, and even
when very young would try to shield her mother from the
blows often showered upon her.
When Slave reached her sixth birthday preparations were
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nude to have her feet bound. Three or four womuu were
nowled for the pertormiujce. One to hold the child, a lecoud
to bandage, and one or two more to pull the bandages A veil
must be drawn over one terrible hour. Then we «ee her rolliuir
trom aide to nule on the large brick bed iii a HUte of iiemi-
conaciouaneM. lltr shrieka and cries had become redueiil
to low moana.
K„»^ii.lr*if' '"°^*'''i' ? F'*y °**''*** ^ ^«*«" the bandages,
but little Slave pushed her away with all her remaining
strength, saving, -No, no, 1 want my feet small, I must have
my feet small. And the mother knowing well the bitterness
and cruelty she had suffered because of her own feet being al-
lowed to grow to almost natural size, yielded.
For months Slave was practically u cripple, the gradual
ly she learned to balance herself on her crushed and broken
stumps of foet Later the child's delight .' new no bounds, for
everywhere she went her tiny feet, clothed in beautiful em-
broidered shoes, attracted the admiration of all
Seven years have passed and we now find Slave a beautiful
girl of thirteen. Her beauty had been much Ulked of, and
great expecUtiona were indulged in regarding her marriage
The child outwardly seemed to take more interest in making
her pretty shoes than in these discussions regarding her future
; Mother-in-law's home," but in reality she was a keen and
interested listener to all that was said on the subject
More than one "go-between" had visited the home for the
purpose of arranging a match with Slave, but the family knew
her market value and were hard to please. At last a woman
came from whom Slave instinctively shrank. Yet it was she
who succeeded in satisfying the demands of the family This
woman stated positively that the "Mother-in-law's home,"
tor whom she was the middle-woman, was all that could be
desired. They owned considerable property, and were the
chief family of their village. As to the man himself, why he
was all a girl could wish for or be proud to call a husband —
young, handsome, clever, and so on.
The outcome of it all was the usual gifts were exchanired
and Slave's fate was sealed for life.
Two short years passed then word was received from
SUve s motber-m-iaw's home that the wedding must take
place on a certain date in the near future. During the busy
days of preparation that followed. Slave's heart palpitated
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mauy times as with mixed feelings she thought of the future.
Then alas, ail too soon the eventful day arrived, when two
Sedan chairs were set down at the Wang's gateway. The one
containing the waiting bridegroom, was handsomely decorated
in blue and silver, but the bride's chair was even more gor-
geous in its trappings of gold and crimson.
When the time came for farewell, teai j of real sorrow were
shed, but little Slave's heart was too full of the handsome
young bridegroom to permit such sad feelings remaining long.
No sooner was she safely behind the curtains of her chair than
she arranged with utmost care, her veil and ornaments, seek-
ing meanwhile to get a glimpse of the one who was to be hers
for life. Often had she pictured to herself the "handsome
young man" described by the "go-between," end it was with
only joyous anticipation that she thought of the future. No
response, however, came from the other chair.
The journey was soon over, and as they approached her
future home Slave became increasingly nervous and shy. She
could easily have caught a climpse of her bridegroom's face
through her veil as they alighted from their chairs, but her
eyes seemed glued to the ground. She felt herself led through
the crowd of noisy spectators, and was conscious that he was
beside her. Together, side )y side, they knelt before the liouse-
hold gods. But it was not till she had been led to the bridal
chamber and seated on the bnek platform or bed, with her
garments arranged to the best advantage, that the crowd was
admitted and her veil was raised.
A low murmur arose at the sight of her great beauty. Still
little Slave's eyes would not rise. It was not till all had left
and she was alone with her husband that her eyes rose with
one swift glance. But, alas, poor child, it was not to see the
bridegroom of her dreams, but instead she saw a man old
enough to be her father, — a man with the marks of a de-
bauched and wicked life plainly written on his countenance, —
a typical opium slave; in other words a man only in name,
rather a brute in human form !
As Slave caught sight of this man standing there, intoxi-
cated with wine, and looking like a beast about to pounce upon
its prey, the shock of disappointment was too great. Her face
became deathly white, and with a piercing cry, — "My mother,
oh my mother," she fell forward unconscious.
We must leave our little friend to enter the darkness alone,
only one of multitudes in this dark heathen land of China
whose innocence and happiness are year by year sacrificed to
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^^greed ot gain and cruel marriage cuatoma ot their own
We shaU Me later how the Light that can lighten th« a^^
Part II. Slave's Fatheb.
dead.^WhpTtif'f L^ '"^^y ^""^ ^° *»«' P«'«"t« as if she were
who bad bTaXS^il h5. '' '»>P,'« "there had borne,
Some ^nth.^A-!?*.^^ " mprmcipled -go-betweeo. "
that children must have the small nil wh ^ "^ ?®^'®^«^
daTof happtol" LiS."=™' ™ "'^'«'' "^ «"■ '"'■'»■«
The cruel death of their two beautiful bovs wu ih» h.
guming of dark days for our Mr. aud M« Wmi TW „m'
graodmother died shortly after from e"^ oftLe me
ats of rage to which women give wav in rksl' . .
:5?.t'Ul"'Srn^^do'!:^.I«J.nSeS
^e place the old husband was found dead in bed.
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An expensive funeral and exceauve feasting which fol-
lowed and which custom required reduced the family to
desperate financial straits.
The days following the funeral were tempestuous ones for
the Wang household, and the "domestic typhoons," as they
have been correctly described, were fiercer and more fre-
quent than ever. At last the day came when the family
mutually decided to separate, which they did in true Chinese
fashion — each couple would be responsible for their own
finances, but would continue to live as before ' ' within the one
gate."
This arrangement would have been favorable to our branch
of the family had not Mr. Wang lost his situation as teacher
almost immediately after the change. Then followed several
moons (months) of fruitless search for employment. Every-
thing that could be was sold or pawned to get food.
One day Mr. Wang's boatman brother returned from the
coast. He told them of a man who had come up on their boat
who was looking for a teacher for a missionary living in an
adjoining province, and he urged Mr. Wang to take this posi-
tion. The women-folk, however, bitterly opposed saying, "If
he once geta under the spell of the foreigner we shall never
hear of him again." But they could not starve, and when it
was learned the salary would be considerably more than what
he had been getting even the women yielded.
Mr. Wang was himself only half inclined to go, for he
could not get out of his mind the remembrance of stories he
had heard of wholesale poisoning carried on by the mis-
sionaries.
Shortly after his departure a little girl came to comfort
Mrs. Wang in her lonelmess. Now that she was her own mis-
tress, she chose a pretty name for the child, little dreaming
what a beautiful herald it was of the brighter day so soon to
dawn, she called it Spring !
One morning when little Spring was just three weeks old,
the Wang family received a great surprise. They were all
seated at their own doorsteps or squatting around the court,
each with a bowl of millet poised in one hand and a pair of
chop sticks in the other, when the front gate opened and who
should appear but Mr. Wang. It was as if a bomb had fallen !
In a few moments the court was crowded with curious neigh-
bors, all eager to hear the reason for his return.
The truth in brief was that he had reached the Mission
Compound safely, had been well received by the other Chinese
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teachers, had been in the missionary's home and had tawht
SJ?^"''^]^ '^® '°,' °''* ^y' ^"* t*^t ^8»»t had been seiLd
with sudden panic lest he get undep the speU of the mission-
anes, and had gathered up his belongings and when all were
J?r^w w^'"®"^ f^^^ "^"y- Thia, however, was not just
how Mr. Wang told it to the waiting crowd. He found it
necessary to add a good many embellishments to make it a len
humiliating stoiy than it would otherwise have been, and these
additions were not always favorable to the foreigners.
"n,J,?tL f"i\^M^**!, *° ^^^'^ the fact that there were three
mouths to fill 'and some ^.rk must be got, but weeks of
searching resulted as before in failure. Our friends would
certainly have starved had not other members of the family
gpven, sometimes almost thrown, food to them. At last in
sheer despair Mr. Wang accepted a position in the Yamen
(City HaU) for just his food. Thus Mrs. Wang was left to
battle with her little babe alone. The cold pitiless winter
faced her and bitter indeed did she find the struggle for exist-
ence. To earn even three and a half cents a day, she was
Obliged to sit at her spinning wheel far into the night, with
her babe inside her wadded garment to keep it warm
During those long winter months Mr. Wang sat at his desk
m the Yamen the face of the missionary seemed to come be-
fore him vividly— so kind, so true, so different from any face
he had ever seen before.
GraduaUy he came to the point of resolving that had he
another chance he would return to the missionary. The oppor-
tunity was nearer than he imagined.
While at his work one morning he heard an unusual com-
motion outside. Stepping to the front gate he found a jrreat
crowd hurrying towards the river. A man shouted to him,
X,. ^ ^o.^eign demons are coming up the river. Come and see
the run.
Without so much as a thought for his work awaiting him
^""^^ *"lw ^^IJ'P ^" teacher's long gown to accelerate
speed and before the man ceased speaking had started to run
j^rith the others. His behaviour on this occasion at least was
quite unworthy of a proud Confucian scholar, all of whom
pride themselves on imitating the sage in never making haste
under any circumstances.
Just as the tiny house boat, with two foreign men standing
on Its deck, came in sight, Mr. Wang reached the river bank
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Had he tried he would have found it difficult to say why he
trembled so. He was only conscious of an intense desire that
one of these men might be his foreigner. At last as be
recognized the missionary he had taught for a day, he could
scarcely repress a cry of joy, or wait till the boat was drawn
op to where he stood. Then, not waiting for the plank to be
put down, he leaped on board and faced the astonished mis-
sionary, who looked his amazement as he recognized him.
Before the other could find words, Mr. Wang, making a
low bov hurriedly asked forgiveness in a few humble words.
He ended by saying, "I know, sir, you are not what people say
you are. I was wrong, forgive me. If you will take m.' I)ack
I will be glad to teach you."
While he was speaking the missionary's face was a study
—surprise, annoyance, relief, pleasure— all came in turn.
The missionary, who could now speak the Chinese language a
little, laid his hand kindly on the young man's shoulder and
said:
"Not a word uiort, Mr. Wang. I am in need of a teacher
so you may consider yourself engaged, but you must be ready
to start back with us three days from now."
The poor fellow looked his gratitude but could find no
woids. As he turned to leave the missionary called him back
and said in a low voice as he handed him some money, "Take
this, you have a wife and she must be provided for, we will
reckon later." This thoughtftil act completed the capture of
Mr. Wang's heart. Prom that moment he became the de-
voted follower of the missionary although as yet he knew
nothing of his message.
Three days later found Mr. Wang settled in his little
"tsang" or cabin on the missionary's houseboat. Next to his
was the larger cabin occupied by the two missionaries as sleep-
ing and living apartment. A partition of open woodwork
covered with paper separated the two cabins. Mr. Wa"? had
not been in his compartment very long before he had, in true
Chinese fashion, by moistening the tip of his finger and apply-
ing it to the paper partition, made a hole siifficiently large to
enable him to watch all that passed in the adjoining cabin
without himself being seen. Day by day he spent every
moment he could get at his self made vantage ground. How
those men puzzled him ! As he noticed how quiet and orderly,
and above all how strangely happy they were, without being
boisterous, he became consciou-i of a growing' sen.i<» of respect
and admiration. Befor they had reached their destination,
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the missionary's home, Mr. Wang had lost every trace of doubt
or fear of the foreigners.
Mr. , the missionary, was a keen judge of character.
His knowledge of human nature was gained in the slums of a
so-called Christian city, and it was well for him that such ex-
perience had been gained before meeting tKe more complex
problems of the Chinese chaneter. As day by day the mis-
sionary studied with Mr. Wang he became more and more con-
vinced that this man must meet Christ first in him, His repre-
sentative, for he found him sharp, keen, critical, and alas,
utterly untrustworthy. But the day came when Mr. Wang
testified, when he was being received into the Church, " I
learned first to u /e the Pastor, then to love his Saviour."
Part III — Slave's Release.
Six years have passed since Mr. Wang entered on his duties
as teacher to the missionary. During all those years he had
been an invaluable assistant to Mr. in the strenuous
and difficult work of opening a new mission station at the
large and important city of C . The time had now
come when it was thought best for Mr. Wang to bring his wife
from their old home. A small cottage was secured just op-
posite the mission gate for them, and here a happier life be-
gan fo- Mrs. Wang than she had ever thought possible.
Mr. Wang, like so many Chinese Christian men, thought
his wife too stupid to learn, and when she first came in touch
with Mrs. , the missionary's wife, she was prac-
tically a heathen. As she came in with little Spring, now a
bright little girl of nearly seven, the foreign woman could
scarcely hide her disappointment when she saw Mrs. Wang
she was so extremely (shall I use the word) ugly, so untidy'
slouchy, and even far from clean. Yet there was a look in
those raiall deep set eyes which said plainly, "Yes, I know
how different I am from you, but oh, I do want you to love
me. And the other felt herself strangely drawn to her. Be-
fore long a deep and abiding affection sprang up between the
two, so different, yet at heart one.
Many times in the lesson penods that followed Mrs.
was tempted to give up in despair, Mrs. Wang was so slow to
learn. One day after a particularly discouraging time of
study, Mrs. Wang turned to her teacher and said, "Teacher
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Mother do not be diwouraged beeauM my mind is like a sieve
for my heart haa Jesus there. ' ' '
The evidence of the new life within soon began to be seen
m the changed, happier, more restful face, andin the cleaner
tidier garments Willingly she aUowed little SpringVf^rto
remain unbound, which meant much at that time when women
and girls with unbound feet were unknown
Although Spring had not the beauty of her older sister
Slave, she was bright, quick in her wayj like her father ^^d
«hnw i 1 " ^T^ T'^i^ ?P"'^ ^ ***« <^<«P«»' "he can.e soon to
show a love for the Saviour unusual in one so young The
fo It^n *''^!,* * '*^*f ^P'^"5 '^''^^ ^"""^ '" ^^ early dJys was
to be allowed to play with the gentle fair-haired foreign child
or her own age.
One day the two children wandered outside the backirate
mto the fields beyond Suddenly they came upon somfC
devouring the body of a UtUe child. Spring. tTwhom such^
^;f^I?? °°- ^^fj^' ^°S^.^ "'^ unmoved, but the tonderly
guarded foreign child gazed m speechless horror, then scream-
ing loudly ran towards home. Her mother, anxious at her dis-
appearance, had ju3t reached the gate when the child an-
peared almost frantic with terror and shock. A word was
sufficient for the mother to learn the cause of the trouble. ' ' Oh
Mother ' c •,' the child, sobbing on her mother's
breast. If .^^, a dear Uttle baby. Oh, mother, mother,
tnose terrib ..gs. I can never forget it. "
That night the mother knelt long beside her child's bed-
side. Other little ones had come and gone. This child seemed
Ike a debcate lily, too sensitive and high strung for such a
land as China, where outside the Mission Compound one could
never tell when one would come upon a scene that mieht hurt
and shock.
Some time later the child was taken ill. There was no doc-
tor near and once more the parents went down into the Valley
of the shadow of death with a precious child. Meningitis de-
veloped. Spring and her mother watched and waited out-
side the child 's sick door for some word of hope. But after
days of great suffering the little one was taken to where there
will be " no more pain, neither sorrow nor crying. ' '
A day later missionaries and Christians gathered about the
open grave beside which rested the little coffin almost covered
with beautiful flowers. It was then that Mrs. Wang recalled
the cruel death of her two boys and what had been done with
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their bttto bodus. The oontnat wu indeed great : here were
every token of love and honor for the preeioue renuuna; but
what moved Mrs. Wang end went to her heart was the look of
Hope wntten on the mother's face as they all sang together—
"Little children, little children.
Who love their Redeemer
Are the jewels, precious jewels,
His loved and His own.
"Like the stars of the morning
Eis bright crown adorning.
They shall shine in His beauty
His loved and His own."
As these words sank deep into Mrs. Wang's very soul,
tnere came a great yearning that her own people might hear
ot this Gospel that gives a soul a hope after death.
Sometime after her little friend's death, Spring entered
the mission school for girls, the first girls' school to be opened
m that part of China. Year by year as they passed, Spring
grew in the love and esteem of her teachers. Her bright,
happy ways and true Christian character endeared her to all.
But the one Spring loved most of aU was the mother of the
fnend she never forgot. On one occasion when the writer
was home on furlough, she received the foUowing letter from
bprmg: Dear Teacher Mother, Come back very soon. As
one who IS hungry longs for food and one who is thirsty for
drink, so my heart longs for you I"
. . "Jf^en fifteen years of age Spring graduated with such dis-
tinction that she was sent to the advanced school for girls in
f,. ?8f- ^VP®?*^®'* "turn she became assistant teacher in the
Mission Girls' School
About this time Mrs. Wang's health broke down. A little
daughter had come whom they named "Brightness." Through
all the months of weakness and failing health, the poor suffer-
ing woman showed forth a true spirit of patience and resigna-
tion. One day an urgent call came for the missionaiy's wife
to go and see the sick woman. Hastening to the little cottage
across the way, she found the court empty so entered the
door unannounced, and passing through the outer room she
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lifted the curtain that served for door into the room where
■he could lee dimly the form of her loved friend lying on the
bnck bed.
There was uo mistaking the look which plainly told the last
call had come to Mrs. Wang. Overcome with the shock of see-
ing the end so near, Mrs. sank down beside her friend
and wept bitterly. Slowly the dying woman raised her hand
and stroked the head of the weeping woman, and with diffi-
culty said, "Don't grieve for me. There is much I want to
say, but the time is too short. Listen ! My child, my little
Slave, does not know about the Saviour. Help Spring to go
to her before it is too late. "
There was a long silence broken only by suppressed weep-
ing from Spring who was standing by. Then Mrs. Wang
continued, "And you, my friend; thank you again for bring-
ing this precious Saviour to even me. And you have helped
me so much."
"No, no," said Mrs. unable to keep silence longer.
"It is you who have helped me. Your patience under trial
has been a constant rebuke to me for my impatience." She
could say no more for even while she was speaking the Glory
of the unseen world seemed to shine on the dying woman's
face.
Some months after her mother's death the way was opened
for Spring to visit her father 's old home. She had many times
longed and prayed that she might fulfil her mother's dying
request. With some difficulties Spring found where her sister
lived and as she drew near the house her heart rose in earnest
prayer for her sister's conversion.
An old woman responded to her knock at the gate, to whom
Spring made herself known, then asked to see her sister. The
old woman who turned cut to be Slave's mother-in-law,
directed her to the door of the room where we last parted with
poor Slave— a broken-hearted bride.
Tapping gently on the door and receiving no answer,
Spring entered. On the long brick bed at one end of the room
lay her sister. The wasted frame and racking cough told all
too plainly Slave's days on earth were few. As Spring stood
looking at her sister for a moment, almost too overcome to
speak, she thought of her mother's words, "before it is too
late."
For three, days Spring remained with her sister.
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fn^T^'l^ '°M''*"' ^^^ ^'*^«'" »»"»»>'^d ^>^ not at home
and the old mother-in-law left them alone only too glad to
When Spring described to her sister their mother's
Oh, that I too could have such a hope'"
«n™I^-" *^' my rigter," eagerly cried Spring. "I have
sTL" "^CnZfli "^ '^/\^'"" ^i"^ you can%o to where
sae IS. Then patiently and lovingly she opened up to her
sister, step by step, the glorious Gospel of a Saviour from sk^
and a hope after death. Slave listened and drank i,. the mT
sage as one parched with thirst would drink from a liS^g
„,w?°? K**? **'® ■'■'^" ^^''^ ^^'^« «l««ly together, Slave
suddenly broke into a passion of uncontrollable weeping Then
e«mr httle by little a« she had strength to teU it, the story of
tho^ terrible years since she left her father's home. At last
JlJ-iT^'iT ^'H ^'*'. ^^'^ loosened her garment and revealed
her shoulders and back covered with bruises and healed scan,
silent witnesses to the cruelty of the past
Gradually the Peace and Hope bom of her new found
faith came into Slave's poor starved soul. And as the sisters
parted never as they knew well to meet again on earth. Slave
said, Yes, it is different now, I shall be in heaven before you.
J have no more fear now. But pray for mv husband. "
There is > Love that longs with deep affection
To gather all the sinsick sons of men
Beneath its wings of shelter and protection,
And give them health again.
It is the love of Jesus, sweet with longing,
His full salvation to the world to give
Co'ing to all the dead, earth's highways thronging,
Oome unto Me, come unto Me, and live."
By Annie Johnson Flint.
Copyright. Evangelical Publishers.