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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: A Retrospect + +Author: James Hudson Taylor + +Release Date: October 1, 2008 [EBook #26744] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A RETROSPECT *** + + + + +Produced by Free Elf, Emmy and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Music files created +by Linda Cantoni.(This file was produced from images +generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian +Libraries) Full-color map generously provided by The +Missionary E-texts Archive at +http://www.missionaryetexts.org + + + + + + +</pre> + + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 426px;"><a name="front" id="front"></a> +<img src="images/illus01.jpg" width="426" height="600" alt="Signature: J. Hudson Taylor." title="Signature: J. Hudson Taylor." /> +</div> + + + + +<h1>A RETROSPECT</h1> + +<h3>BY</h3> + +<h2>J. HUDSON TAYLOR, M.R.C.S., F.R.G.S.</h2> + +<div class='center'><i>Thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy +God led thee.</i><br /> +<br /><br /><br /> +THIRD EDITION<br /> + +<br /><br /><br /><br /> +TORONTO<br /> +CHINA INLAND MISSION<br /> +507 CHURCH STREET<br /> +</div> +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"><a name="contents" id="contents"></a> +<a href="images/illus02-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus02.jpg" width="500" height="291" alt="THE "LAMMERMUIR" PARTY. See page 125." title="THE "LAMMERMUIR" PARTY. See page 125." /></a> +<span class="caption">THE "LAMMERMUIR" PARTY. <a href="#Page_125"><i>See page 125.</i></a></span> +</div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>CONTENTS</h2> + + + + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="Contents"> +<tr><td align='left' colspan='2'><small>CHAP.</small></td><td align='right'><small>PAGE</small></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>I.</td><td align='left'> <span class="smcap">The Power of Prayer</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_1">1</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>II.</td><td align='left'> <span class="smcap">The Call to Service</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_7">7</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>III.</td><td align='left'> <span class="smcap">Preparation for Service</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_13">13</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>IV.</td><td align='left'> <span class="smcap">Further Answers to Prayer</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_19">19</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>V.</td><td align='left'> <span class="smcap">Life in London</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_24">24</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>VI.</td><td align='left'> <span class="smcap">Strengthened by Faith</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_30">30</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>VII.</td><td align='left'> <span class="smcap">Mighty to Save</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_35">35</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>VIII.</td><td align='left'> <span class="smcap">Voyage to China</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_39">39</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>IX.</td><td align='left'> <span class="smcap">Early Missionary Experiences</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_45">45</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>X.</td><td align='left'> <span class="smcap">First Evangelistic Efforts</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_49">49</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>XI.</td><td align='left'> <span class="smcap">With the Rev. W. C. Burns</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_57">57</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>XII.</td><td align='left'> <span class="smcap">The Call to Swatow</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_70">70</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'> </td><td align='left'> "The Missionary Call": Words and Music</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_75">75</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>XIII.</td><td align='left'> <span class="smcap">Man Proposes, God Disposes</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_77">77</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>XIV.</td><td align='left'> <span class="smcap">Providential Guidance</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_92">92</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>XV.</td><td align='left'> <span class="smcap">Settlement in Ningpo</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_98">98</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>XVI.</td><td align='left'> <span class="smcap">Timely Supplies</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_105">105</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>XVII.</td><td align='left'> <span class="smcap">God a Refuge for us</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_110">110</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>XVIII.</td><td align='left'> <span class="smcap">A New Agency needed</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_116">116</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>XIX.</td><td align='left'> <span class="smcap">Formation of the C. I. M.</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_121">121</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>XX.</td><td align='left'> <span class="smcap">The Mission in 1894</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_126">126</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'> </td><td align='left'> <span class="smcap">The Mission in 1902</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_128">128</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left' colspan='2'><span class="smcap">Stations of the C. I. M.</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_131">131</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'>——————</td></tr> +<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'>MAP OF CHINA</td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'></td><td align='left'> <span class="smcap">Showing the Stations of the China Inland Mission; Corrected to June 1900</span></td><td align='right'><i>To face page</i> <a href="#map">131</a></td></tr> +</table></div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>ILLUSTRATIONS</h2> + + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="Illustrations and Cover pattern"> +<tr><td align='left'><img src="images/cover.jpg" width="123" height="600" alt="Cover pattern" title="Cover pattern" /> +</td><td align='left'><div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="Illustrations"> +<tr><td align='right'>1.</td><td align='left'> Portrait of J. Hudson Taylor</td><td align='right'><a href="#front"><i>Frontispiece</i></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>2.</td><td align='left'> The "Lammermuir" party</td><td align='right'><i>Facing <a href="#contents">"Contents"</a></i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'> </td><td align='right'> </td><td align='right'><small>PAGE</small></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>3.</td><td align='left'> Honorary banner presented to a missionary</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_1">1</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>4.</td><td align='left'> A heavy road in North China</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_7">7</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>5.</td><td align='left'> Salt junk on the Yang-tsi</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_13">13</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>6.</td><td align='left'> Travelling by mule cart on "the great plain"</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_19">19</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>7.</td><td align='left'> Ch'ung-k'ing, the Yang-tsi, and mountains beyond</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_24">24</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>8.</td><td align='left'> Water gate and Custom house, Soo-chow</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_29">29</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>9.</td><td align='left'> View on the Kwang-sin River</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_30">30</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>10.</td><td align='left'> Temple and memorial portal</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_34">34</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>11.</td><td align='left'> "Compassionate heart, benevolent methods"</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_35">35</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>12.</td><td align='left'> Outside the wall of Gan-k'ing</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_38">38</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>13.</td><td align='left'> The new girls school at Chefoo</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_39">39</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>14.</td><td align='left'> Entrance to the Po-yang lake</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_44">44</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>15.</td><td align='left'> A fair wind, at sunset, on the lake</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_45">45</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>16.</td><td align='left'> A view on the grand canal</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_49">49</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>17.</td><td align='left'> Down the Yang-tsi on a cargo boat</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_57">57</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>18.</td><td align='left'> East gate and sentry box, Bhamô, Burmah</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_69">69</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>19.</td><td align='left'> Farmhouse, with buffalo shed attached</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_70">70</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>20.</td><td align='left'> A fishing village on the lake near Yünnan Fu</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_77">77</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>21.</td><td align='left'> Teng-yueh, the westernmost walled city in China</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_91">91</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>22.</td><td align='left'> A small temple near Wun-chau</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_92">92</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>23.</td><td align='left'> Group of Christians at Lan-k'i, Cheh-kiang</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_97">97</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>24.</td><td align='left'> A boat on the Red River, Tonquin</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_98">98</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>25.</td><td align='left'> Students' quarters, Gan-k'ing Training Home</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_104">104</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>26.</td><td align='left'> A Mandarin's sedan chair</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_105">105</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>27.</td><td align='left'> A presentation banner (a mark of high respect)</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_110">110</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>28.</td><td align='left'> View on the Po-yang lake</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_116">116</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>29.</td><td align='left'> A village on the grand canal</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_121">121</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>30.</td><td align='left'> The battlements of Pekin</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_126">126</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>31.</td><td align='left'> Native woodcut of a landscape</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_131">131</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>32.</td><td align='left'> Elder Liu and wife, Kwei-k'i</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_136">136</a></td></tr> +</table></div> +</td></tr> +</table></div> +<div class="hang1">The hearty thanks of the Mission for the use of photographs and sketches +are hereby tendered to Rev. George Hayes for Nos. 4 and 6; Dr. +G. Whitfield Guinness for Nos. 8, 12, 16, 25, and 28; Miss Davies +for No. 23; Mr. Thomas Selkirk for Nos. 18 and 21; Mr. J. T. +Reid for Nos. 14, 15, and 27; Mr. J. S. Rough for No. 30; Mr. +Grainger for No. 19; Mr. E. Murray for No. 13, and also to other +friends unknown by name.</div> + + + + + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[1]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus03.jpg" width="500" height="176" alt="Honorary banner presented to a missionary" title="Honorary banner presented to a missionary" /> +</div> + +<h2>CHAPTER I</h2> + +<h3>THE POWER OF PRAYER</h3> + + +<div class='cap'>THE following account of some of the experiences +which eventually led to the formation of the <span class="smcap">China +Inland Mission</span>, and to its taking the form in which it has +been developed, first appeared in the pages of <i>China's +Millions</i>. Many of those who read it there asked that it +might appear in separate form. Miss Guinness incorporated +it in the <i>Story of the China Inland Mission</i>, a record which +contained the account of <span class="smcap">God's</span> goodness to the beginning +of 1894. But friends still asking for it in pamphlet form, +for wider distribution, this edition is brought out.</div> + +<p>Much of the material was taken from notes of addresses +given in China during a conference of our missionaries; +this will account for the direct and narrative form of the +papers, which it has not been thought necessary to change.</p> + +<p>It is always helpful to us to fix our attention on the +<span class="smcap">God</span>-ward aspect of Christian work; to realise that the work +of <span class="smcap">God</span> does not mean so much man's work for <span class="smcap">God</span>, as +<span class="smcap">God's</span> own work through man. Furthermore, in our privileged +position of fellow-workers with Him, while fully recognising +all the benefits and blessings to be bestowed on a +sin-stricken world through the proclamation of the Gospel +and spread of the Truth, we should never lose sight of the +higher aspect of our work—that of obedience to <span class="smcap">God</span>, of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[2]</a></span> +bringing glory to His Name, of gladdening the heart of +our <span class="smcap">God</span> and <span class="smcap">Father</span> by living and serving as His beloved +children.</p> + +<p>Many circumstances connected with my own early life +and service presented this aspect of work vividly to me; +and as I think of some of them, I am reminded of how +much the cause of missions is indebted to many who are +never themselves permitted to see the mission field—many, +it may be, who are unable to give largely of their +substance, and who will be not a little surprised in the +Great Day to see how much the work has been advanced +by their love, their sympathy, and their prayers.</p> + +<p>For myself, and for the work that I have been permitted +to do for <span class="smcap">God</span>, I owe an unspeakable debt of gratitude to +my beloved and honoured parents, who have passed away +and entered into rest, but the influence of whose lives will +never pass away.</p> + +<p>Many years ago, probably about 1830, the heart of +my dear father, then himself an earnest and successful +evangelist at home, was deeply stirred as to the spiritual +state of China by reading several books, and especially +an account of the travels of Captain Basil Hall. His +circumstances were such as to preclude the hope of his +ever going to China for personal service, but he was led +to pray that if <span class="smcap">God</span> should give him a son, he might be +called and privileged to labour in the vast needy empire +which was then apparently so sealed against the truth. +I was not aware of this desire or prayer myself until my +return to England, more than seven years after I had +sailed for China; but it was very interesting then to know +how prayer offered before my birth had been answered in +this matter.</p> + +<p>All thought of my becoming a missionary was abandoned +for many years by my dear parents on account of the feebleness<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[3]</a></span> +of my health. When the time came, however, <span class="smcap">God</span> +gave increased health, and my life has been spared, and +strength has been given for not a little toilsome service +both in the mission field and at home, while many stronger +men and women have succumbed.</p> + +<p>I had many opportunities in early years of learning +the value of prayer and of the Word of <span class="smcap">God</span>; for it +was the delight of my dear parents to point out that if +there were any such Being as <span class="smcap">God</span>, to trust Him, to obey +Him, and to be fully given up to His service, must of +necessity be the best and wisest course both for myself +and others. But in spite of these helpful examples and +precepts my heart was unchanged. Often I had tried to +make myself a Christian; and failing of course in such +efforts, I began at last to think that for some reason or +other I could not be saved, and that the best I could +do was to take my fill of this world, as there was no +hope for me beyond the grave.</p> + +<p>While in this state of mind I came in contact with +persons holding sceptical and infidel views, and accepted +their teaching, only too thankful for some hope of escape +from the doom which, if my parents were right and the +Bible true, awaited the impenitent. It may seem strange +to say it, but I have often felt thankful for the experience +of this time of scepticism. The inconsistencies of Christian +people, who while professing to believe their Bibles were +yet content to live just as they would if there were no +such book, had been one of the strongest arguments +of my sceptical companions; and I frequently felt at +that time, and said, that if I pretended to believe the +Bible I would at any rate attempt to live by it, putting +it fairly to the test, and if it failed to prove true and reliable, +would throw it overboard altogether. These views I +retained when the <span class="smcap">Lord</span> was pleased to bring me to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[4]</a></span> +Himself; and I think I may say that since then I <i>have</i> put +<span class="smcap">God's</span> Word to the test. Certainly it has never failed me. +I have never had reason to regret the confidence I have +placed in its promises, or to deplore following the guidance +I have found in its directions.</p> + +<p>Let me tell you how <span class="smcap">God</span> answered the prayers of my +dear mother and of my beloved sister, now Mrs. Broomhall, +for my conversion. On a day which I shall never forget, +when I was about fifteen years of age, my dear mother +being absent from home, I had a holiday, and in the afternoon +looked through my father's library to find some book +with which to while away the unoccupied hours. Nothing +attracting me, I turned over a little basket of pamphlets, +and selected from amongst them a Gospel tract which +looked interesting, saying to myself, "There will be a +story at the commencement, and a sermon or moral at the +close: I will take the former and leave the latter for those +who like it."</p> + +<p>I sat down to read the little book in an utterly unconcerned +state of mind, believing indeed at the time that if +there were any salvation it was not for me, and with a distinct +intention to put away the tract as soon as it should +seem prosy. I may say that it was not uncommon in +those days to call conversion "becoming serious"; and +judging by the faces of some of its professors, it appeared +to be a very serious matter indeed. Would it not be well +if the people of <span class="smcap">God</span> had always tell-tale faces, evincing +the blessings and gladness of salvation so clearly that +unconverted people might have to call conversion "becoming +joyful" instead of "becoming serious"?</p> + +<p>Little did I know at the time what was going on in +the heart of my dear mother, seventy or eighty miles away. +She rose from the dinner-table that afternoon with an +intense yearning for the conversion of her boy, and feeling<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[5]</a></span> +that—absent from home, and having more leisure than she +could otherwise secure—a special opportunity was afforded +her of pleading with <span class="smcap">God</span> on my behalf. She went to +her room and turned the key in the door, resolved not +to leave that spot until her prayers were answered. Hour +after hour did that dear mother plead for me, until at +length she could pray no longer, but was constrained to +praise <span class="smcap">God</span> for that which His <span class="smcap">Spirit</span> taught her had +already been accomplished—the conversion of her only son.</p> + +<p>I in the meantime had been led in the way I have +mentioned to take up this little tract, and while reading +it was struck with the sentence, "The finished work of +<span class="smcap">Christ</span>." The thought passed through my mind, "Why +does the author use this expression? why not say the +atoning or propitiatory work of <span class="smcap">Christ</span>?" Immediately the +words "It is finished" suggested themselves to my mind. +What was finished? And I at once replied, "A full and +perfect atonement and satisfaction for sin: the debt was +paid by the Substitute; <span class="smcap">Christ</span> died for our sins, and not +for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world." +Then came the thought, "If the whole work was finished +and the whole debt paid, what is there left for me to +do?" And with this dawned the joyful conviction, as +light was flashed into my soul by the <span class="smcap">Holy Spirit</span>, that +there was nothing in the world to be done but to fall +down on one's knees, and accepting this <span class="smcap">Saviour</span> and +His salvation, to praise Him for evermore. Thus while +my dear mother was praising <span class="smcap">God</span> on her knees in her +chamber, I was praising Him in the old warehouse to +which I had gone alone to read at my leisure this little +book.</p> + +<p>Several days elapsed ere I ventured to make my beloved +sister the confidante of my joy, and then only after she +had promised not to tell any one of my soul secret.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[6]</a></span> +When our dear mother came home a fortnight later, I was +the first to meet her at the door, and to tell her I had +such glad news to give. I can almost feel that dear +mother's arms around my neck, as she pressed me to her +bosom and said, "I know, my boy; I have been rejoicing +for a fortnight in the glad tidings you have to tell me." +"Why," I asked in surprise, "has Amelia broken her +promise? She said she would tell no one." My dear +mother assured me that it was not from any human +source that she had learned the tidings, and went on +to tell the little incident mentioned above. You will +agree with me that it would be strange indeed if I were +not a believer in the power of prayer.</p> + +<p>Nor was this all. Some little time after, I picked up +a pocket-book exactly like one of my own, and thinking +that it was mine, opened it. The lines that caught my +eye were an entry in the little diary, which belonged to +my sister, to the effect that she would give herself daily +to prayer until <span class="smcap">God</span> should answer in the conversion of her +brother. Exactly one month later the <span class="smcap">Lord</span> was pleased +to turn me from darkness to light.</p> + +<p>Brought up in such a circle and saved under such +circumstances, it was perhaps natural that from the commencement +of my Christian life I was led to feel that the +promises were very real, and that prayer was in sober matter +of fact transacting business with <span class="smcap">God</span>, whether on one's +own behalf or on behalf of those for whom one sought His +blessing.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[7]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus04.jpg" width="500" height="193" alt="A heavy road in North China" title="A heavy road in North China" /> +</div> +<h2>CHAPTER II</h2> + +<h3>THE CALL TO SERVICE</h3> + + +<div class='cap'>THE first joys of conversion passed away after a time, +and were succeeded by a period of painful deadness +of soul, with much conflict. But this also came to an end, +leaving a deepened sense of personal weakness and dependence +on the <span class="smcap">Lord</span> as the only <span class="smcap">Keeper</span> as well as <span class="smcap">Saviour</span> +of His people. How sweet to the soul, wearied and disappointed +in its struggles with sin, is the calm repose of +trust in the <span class="smcap">Shepherd</span> of Israel.</div> + +<p>Not many months after my conversion, having a leisure +afternoon, I retired to my own chamber to spend it largely +in communion with <span class="smcap">God</span>. Well do I remember that +occasion. How in the gladness of my heart I poured out +my soul before <span class="smcap">God</span>; and again and again confessing my +grateful love to Him who had done everything for me—who +had saved me when I had given up all hope and even +desire for salvation—I besought Him to give me some +work to do for Him, as an outlet for love and gratitude; +some self-denying service, no matter what it might be, +however trying or however trivial; something with which +He would be pleased, and that I might do for Him who +had done so much for me. Well do I remember, as in +unreserved consecration I put myself, my life, my friends, +my all, upon the altar, the deep solemnity that came over<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[8]</a></span> +my soul with the assurance that my offering was accepted. +The presence of <span class="smcap">God</span> became unutterably real and blessed; +and though but a child under sixteen, I remember stretching +myself on the ground, and lying there silent before Him +with unspeakable awe and unspeakable joy.</p> + +<p>For what service I was accepted I knew not; but a +deep consciousness that I was no longer my own took +possession of me, which has never since been effaced. It +has been a very practical consciousness. Two or three +years later propositions of an unusually favourable nature +were made to me with regard to medical study, on the +condition of my becoming apprenticed to the medical man +who was my friend and teacher. But I felt I dared not +accept any binding engagement such as was suggested. I +was not my own to give myself away; for I knew not +when or how He whose alone I was, and for whose disposal +I felt I must ever keep myself free, might call for service.</p> + +<p>Within a few months of this time of consecration the +impression was wrought into my soul that it was in China +the <span class="smcap">Lord</span> wanted me. It seemed to me highly probable +that the work to which I was thus called might cost my life; +for China was not then open as it is now. But few missionary +societies had at that time workers in China, and +but few books on the subject of China missions were +accessible to me. I learned, however, that the Congregational +minister of my native town possessed a copy +of Medhurst's <i>China</i>, and I called upon him to ask a +loan of the book. This he kindly granted, asking me +why I wished to read it. I told him that <span class="smcap">God</span> had called +me to spend my life in missionary service in that land. +"And how do you propose to go there?" he inquired. I +answered that I did not at all know; that it seemed to +me probable that I should need to do as the Twelve +and the Seventy had done in Judæa—go without purse<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[9]</a></span> +or scrip, relying on Him who had called me to supply +all my need. Kindly placing his hand upon my shoulder, +the minister replied, "Ah, my boy, as you grow older you +will get wiser than that. Such an idea would do very +well in the days when <span class="smcap">Christ</span> Himself was on earth, but +not now."</p> + +<p>I have grown older since then, but not wiser. I am +more than ever convinced that if we were to take the +directions of our <span class="smcap">Master</span> and the assurances He gave to +His first disciples more fully as our guide, we should find +them to be just as suited to our times as to those in +which they were originally given.</p> + +<p>Medhurst's book on China emphasised the value of +medical missions there, and this directed my attention to +medical studies as a valuable mode of preparation.</p> + +<p>My beloved parents neither discouraged nor encouraged +my desire to engage in missionary work. They advised +me, with such convictions, to use all the means in my +power to develop the resources of body, mind, heart, and +soul, and to wait prayerfully upon <span class="smcap">God</span>, quite willing, +should He show me that I was mistaken, to follow His +guidance, or to go forward if in due time He should open +the way to missionary service. The importance of this +advice I have often since had occasion to prove. I began +to take more exercise in the open air to strengthen my +physique. My feather bed I had taken away, and sought +to dispense with as many other home comforts as I could, +in order to prepare myself for rougher lines of life. I +began also to do what Christian work was in my power, in +the way of tract distribution, Sunday-school teaching, and +visiting the poor and sick, as opportunity afforded.</p> + +<p>After a time of preparatory study at home, I went to +Hull for medical and surgical training. There I became +assistant to a doctor who was connected with the Hull<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[10]</a></span> +school of medicine, and was surgeon also to a number +of factories, which brought many accident cases to our +dispensary, and gave me the opportunity of seeing and +practising the minor operations of surgery.</p> + +<p>And here an event took place that I must not omit +to mention. Before leaving home my attention was drawn +to the subject of setting apart the firstfruits of all one's +increase and a proportionate part of one's possessions to +the <span class="smcap">Lord's</span> service. I thought it well to study the +question with my Bible in hand before I went away from +home, and was placed in circumstances which might bias +my conclusions by the pressure of surrounding wants and +cares. I was thus led to the determination to set apart +not less than one-tenth of whatever moneys I might earn or +become possessed of for the <span class="smcap">Lord's</span> service. The salary I +received as medical assistant in Hull at the time now +referred to would have allowed me with ease to do this. +But owing to changes in the family of my kind friend and +employer, it was necessary for me to reside out of doors. +Comfortable quarters were secured with a relative, and +in addition to the sum determined on as remuneration +for my services I received the exact amount I had to pay +for board and lodging.</p> + +<p>Now arose in my mind the question, Ought not this +sum also to be tithed? It was surely a part of my income, +and I felt that if it had been a question of Government +income tax it certainly would not have been excluded. +On the other hand, to take a tithe from the whole would +not leave me sufficient for other purposes; and for some +little time I was much embarrassed to know what to do. +After much thought and prayer I was led to leave the +comfortable quarters and happy circle in which I was +now residing, and to engage a little lodging in the +suburbs—a sitting-room and bedroom in one—undertaking<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[11]</a></span> +to board myself. In this way I was able without +difficulty to tithe the whole of my income; and while I +felt the change a good deal, it was attended with no small +blessing.</p> + +<p>More time was given in my solitude to the study of +the Word of <span class="smcap">God</span>, to visiting the poor, and to evangelistic +work on summer evenings than would otherwise have +been the case. Brought into contact in this way with +many who were in distress, I soon saw the privilege of +still further economising, and found it not difficult to give +away much more than the proportion of my income I had +at first intended.</p> + +<p>About this time a friend drew my attention to the +question of the personal and pre-millennial coming of our +<span class="smcap">Lord Jesus Christ</span>, and gave me a list of passages +bearing upon it, without note or comment, advising me +to ponder the subject. For a while I gave much time to +studying the Scriptures about it, with the result that I was +led to see that this same <span class="smcap">Jesus</span> who left our earth in His +resurrection body was so to come again, that His feet +were to stand on the Mount of Olives, and that He was +to take possession of the temporal throne of His father +David which was promised before His birth. I saw, +further, that all through the New Testament the coming +of the <span class="smcap">Lord</span> was the great hope of His people, and +was always appealed to as the strongest motive for consecration +and service, and as the greatest comfort in trial +and affliction. I learned, too, that the period of His +return for His people was not revealed, and that it was +their privilege, from day to day and from hour to hour, +to live as men who wait for the <span class="smcap">Lord</span>; that thus living +it was immaterial, so to speak, whether He should or +should not come at any particular hour, the important +thing being to be so ready for Him as to be able, whenever<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[12]</a></span> +He might appear, to give an account of one's stewardship +with joy, and not with grief.</p> + +<p>The effect of this blessed hope was a thoroughly +practical one. It led me to look carefully through my +little library to see if there were any books there that +were not needed or likely to be of further service, and +to examine my small wardrobe, to be quite sure that it +contained nothing that I should be sorry to give an account +of should the <span class="smcap">Master</span> come at once. The result was +that the library was considerably diminished, to the benefit +of some poor neighbours, and to the far greater benefit of +my own and that I found I had articles of clothing +also which might be put to better advantage in other +directions.</p> + +<p>It has been very helpful to me from time to time +through life, as occasion has served, to act again in a +similar way; and I have never gone through my house, +from basement to attic, with this object in view, without +receiving a great accession of spiritual joy and blessing. I +believe we are all in danger of accumulating—it may be +from thoughtlessness, or from pressure of occupation—things +which would be useful to others, while not needed +by ourselves, and the retention of which entails loss of +blessing. If the whole resources of the Church of <span class="smcap">God</span> +were well utilised, how much more might be accomplished! +How many poor might be fed and naked clothed, and to +how many of those as yet unreached the Gospel might be +carried! Let me advise this line of things as a constant +habit of mind, and a profitable course to be practically +adopted whenever circumstances permit.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[13]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus05.jpg" width="500" height="196" alt="Salt junk on the Yang-tsi" title="Salt junk on the Yang-tsi" /> +</div> +<h2>CHAPTER III</h2> + +<h3>PREPARATION FOR SERVICE</h3> + + +<div class='cap'>HAVING now the twofold object in view of accustoming +myself to endure hardness, and of economising +in order to be able more largely to assist those amongst +whom I spent a good deal of time labouring in the Gospel, +I soon found that I could live upon very much less than I +had previously thought possible. Butter, milk, and other +such luxuries I soon ceased to use; and I found that by +living mainly on oatmeal and rice, with occasional variations, +a very small sum was sufficient for my needs. In this way +I had more than two-thirds of my income available for +other purposes; and my experience was that the less I +spent on myself and the more I gave away, the fuller of +happiness and blessing did my soul become. Unspeakable +joy all the day long, and every day, was my happy +experience. <span class="smcap">God</span>, even my <span class="smcap">God</span>, was a living, bright +Reality; and all I had to do was joyful service.</div> + +<p>It was to me a very grave matter, however, to contemplate +going out to China, far away from all human aid, +there to depend upon the living <span class="smcap">God</span> alone for protection, +supplies, and help of every kind. I felt that one's spiritual +muscles required strengthening for such an undertaking. +There was no doubt that if faith did not fail, <span class="smcap">God</span> would +not fail; but, then, what if one's faith should prove insufficient?<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[14]</a></span> +I had not at that time learned that even "if +we believe not, He abideth faithful, He cannot deny Himself"; +and it was consequently a very serious question to +my mind, not whether <i>He</i> was faithful, but whether I +had strong enough faith to warrant my embarking in the +enterprise set before me.</p> + +<p>I thought to myself, "When I get out to China, I shall +have no claim on any one for anything; my only claim will +be on <span class="smcap">God</span>. How important, therefore, to learn before +leaving England to move man, through <span class="smcap">God</span>, by prayer +alone."</p> + +<p>At Hull my kind employer, always busily occupied, +wished me to remind him whenever my salary became +due. This I determined not to do directly, but to ask that +<span class="smcap">God</span> would bring the fact to his recollection, and thus encourage +me by answering prayer. At one time, as the day +drew near for the payment of a quarter's salary, I was as +usual much in prayer about it. The time arrived, but my +kind friend made no allusion to the matter. I continued +praying, and days passed on, but he did not remember, +until at length, on settling up my weekly accounts one +Saturday night, I found myself possessed of only a single +coin—one half-crown piece. Still I had hitherto had no +lack, and I continued in prayer.</p> + +<p>That Sunday was a very happy one. As usual my heart +was full and brimming over with blessing. After attending +Divine service in the morning, my afternoons and +evenings were filled with Gospel work, in the various +lodging-houses I was accustomed to visit in the lowest +part of the town. At such times it almost seemed to me +as if heaven were begun below, and that all that could +be looked for was an enlargement of one's capacity for +joy, not a truer filling than I possessed. After concluding +my last service about ten o'clock that night, a poor<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[15]</a></span> +man asked me to go and pray with his wife, saying that +she was dying. I readily agreed, and on the way to his +house asked him why he had not sent for the priest, as +his accent told me he was an Irishman. He had done so, +he said, but the priest refused to come without a payment +of eighteenpence, which the man did not possess, as the +family was starving. Immediately it occurred to my mind +that all the money I had in the world was the solitary half-crown, +and that it was in one coin; moreover, that while +the basin of water gruel I usually took for supper was +awaiting me, and there was sufficient in the house for +breakfast in the morning, I certainly had nothing for +dinner on the coming day.</p> + +<p>Somehow or other there was at once a stoppage in the +flow of joy in my heart; but instead of reproving myself I +began to reprove the poor man, telling him that it was +very wrong to have allowed matters to get into such a state +as he described, and that he ought to have applied to the +relieving officer. His answer was that he had done so, and +was told to come at eleven o'clock the next morning, but +that he feared that his wife might not live through the +night. "Ah," thought I, "if only I had two shillings +and a sixpence instead of this half-crown, how gladly +would I give these poor people one shilling of it!" But to +part with the half-crown was far from my thoughts. I +little dreamed that the real truth of the matter simply +was that I could trust in <span class="smcap">God</span> plus one-and-sixpence, but +was not yet prepared to trust Him only, without any +money at all in my pocket.</p> + +<p>My conductor led me into a court, down which I +followed him with some degree of nervousness. I had +found myself there before, and at my last visit had +been very roughly handled, while my tracts were torn to +pieces, and I received such a warning not to come again<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[16]</a></span> +that I felt more than a little concerned. Still, it was the +path of duty, and I followed on. Up a miserable flight +of stairs, into a wretched room, he led me; and oh what +a sight there presented itself to our eyes! Four or five +poor children stood about, their sunken cheeks and +temples all telling unmistakably the story of slow starvation; +and lying on a wretched pallet was a poor exhausted +mother, with a tiny infant thirty-six hours old, moaning +rather than crying at her side, for it too seemed spent and +failing. "Ah!" thought I, "if I had two shillings and a +sixpence instead of half-a-crown, how gladly should they +have one-and-sixpence of it!" But still a wretched unbelief +prevented me from obeying the impulse to relieve +their distress at the cost of all I possessed.</p> + +<p>It will scarcely seem strange that I was unable to say +much to comfort these poor people. I needed comfort +myself. I began to tell them, however, that they must not +be cast down, that though their circumstances were very +distressing, there was a kind and loving <span class="smcap">Father</span> in +heaven; but something within me said, "You hypocrite! +telling these unconverted people about a kind and loving +<span class="smcap">Father</span> in heaven, and not prepared yourself to trust Him +without half-a-crown!" I was nearly choked. How gladly +would I have compromised with conscience if I had had a +florin and a sixpence! I would have given the florin thankfully +and kept the rest; but I was not yet prepared to +trust in <span class="smcap">God</span> alone, without the sixpence.</p> + +<p>To talk was impossible under these circumstances; +yet, strange to say, I thought I should have no difficulty +in praying. Prayer was a delightful occupation to me in +those days; time thus spent never seemed wearisome, and +I knew nothing of lack of words. I seemed to think that +all I should have to do would be to kneel down and +engage in prayer, and that relief would come to them and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[17]</a></span> +to myself together. "You asked me to come and pray +with your wife," I said to the man, "let us pray." And I +knelt down. But scarcely had I opened my lips with "Our +<span class="smcap">Father</span> who art in heaven" than conscience said within, +"Dare you mock <span class="smcap">God</span>? Dare you kneel down and call +Him <span class="smcap">Father</span> with that half-crown in your pocket?" +Such a time of conflict came upon me then as I have +never experienced before or since. How I got through +that form of prayer I know not, and whether the words +uttered were connected or disconnected I cannot tell; +but I arose from my knees in great distress of mind.</p> + +<p>The poor father turned to me and said, "You see what +a terrible state we are in, sir; if you can help us, for <span class="smcap">God's</span> +sake do!" Just then the word flashed into my mind, +"Give to him that asketh of thee," and in the word of a +<span class="smcap">King</span> there is power. I put my hand into my pocket, +and slowly drawing forth the half-crown, gave it to the man, +telling him that it might seem a small matter for me to relieve +them, seeing that I was comparatively well off, but that in +parting with that coin I was giving him my all; what I +had been trying to tell him was indeed true—<span class="smcap">God</span> really +was a <span class="smcap">Father</span>, and might be trusted. The joy all came +back in full flood-tide to my heart; I could say anything +and feel it then, and the hindrance to blessing was gone—gone, +I trust, for ever.</p> + +<p>Not only was the poor woman's life saved, but I realised +that my life was saved too! It might have been a wreck—would +have been a wreck probably, as a Christian life—had +not grace at that time conquered, and the striving +of <span class="smcap">God's Spirit</span> been obeyed. I well remember how that +night, as I went home to my lodgings, my heart was as light +as my pocket. The lonely, deserted streets resounded with +a hymn of praise which I could not restrain. When I took +my basin of gruel before retiring, I would not have exchanged<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[18]</a></span> +it for a prince's feast. I reminded the <span class="smcap">Lord</span> as +I knelt at my bedside of His own Word, that he who giveth +to the poor lendeth to the <span class="smcap">Lord</span>: I asked Him not to let +my loan be a long one, or I should have no dinner next +day; and with peace within and peace without, I spent a +happy, restful night.</p> + +<p>Next morning for breakfast my plate of porridge remained, +and before it was consumed the postman's knock +was heard at the door. I was not in the habit of receiving +letters on Monday, as my parents and most of my +friends refrained from posting on Saturday; so that I was +somewhat surprised when the landlady came in holding a +letter or packet in her wet hand covered by her apron. +I looked at the letter, but could not make out the handwriting. +It was either a strange hand or a feigned one, +and the postmark was blurred. Where it came from I +could not tell. On opening the envelope I found nothing +written within; but inside a sheet of blank paper was +folded a pair of kid gloves, from which, as I opened them +in astonishment, half-a-sovereign fell to the ground. "Praise +the <span class="smcap">Lord</span>!" I exclaimed; "400 per cent for twelve hours +investment; that is good interest. How glad the merchants +of Hull would be if they could lend their money at such +a rate!" I then and there determined that a bank which +could not break should have my savings or earnings as the +case might be—a determination I have not yet learned to +regret.</p> + +<p>I cannot tell you how often my mind has recurred to +this incident, or all the help it has been to me in circumstances +of difficulty in after-life. If we are faithful to <span class="smcap">God</span> +in little things, we shall gain experience and strength that +will be helpful to us in the more serious trials of life.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[19]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus06.jpg" width="500" height="168" alt="Travelling by mule cart on "the great plain"" title="Travelling by mule cart on "the great plain"" /> +</div> +<h2>CHAPTER IV</h2> + +<h3>FURTHER ANSWERS TO PRAYER</h3> + + +<div class='cap'>THE remarkable and gracious deliverance I have spoken +of, was a great joy to me, as well as a strong confirmation +of faith; but of course ten shillings, however +economically used, will not go very far, and it was none +the less necessary to continue in prayer, asking that the +larger supply which was still due might be remembered and +paid. All my petitions, however, appeared to remain unanswered; +and before a fortnight had elapsed I found +myself pretty much in the same position that I had +occupied on the Sunday night already made so memorable. +Meanwhile, I continued pleading with <span class="smcap">God</span>, more +and more earnestly, that He would graciously remind +my employer that my salary was overdue. Of course it +was not the want of the money that distressed me—that +could have been had at any time for the asking—but the +question uppermost in my mind was this: "Can I go to +China? or will my want of faith and power with <span class="smcap">God</span> prove +to be so serious an obstacle as to preclude my entering +upon this much-prized service?"</div> + +<p>As the week drew to a close I felt exceedingly embarrassed. +There was not only myself to consider; on +Saturday night a payment would be due to my Christian +landlady which I knew she could not well dispense with.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[20]</a></span> +Ought I not, for her sake, to speak about the matter of +the salary? Yet to do so would be, to myself at any +rate, the admission that I was not fitted to undertake a +missionary enterprise. I gave nearly the whole of Thursday +and Friday—all the time not occupied in my necessary +employment—to earnest wrestling with <span class="smcap">God</span> in prayer. +But still on Saturday morning I was in the same position +as before. And now my earnest cry was for guidance +as to whether it was my duty to break silence and speak +to my employer, or whether I should still continue to wait +the <span class="smcap">Father</span>'s time. As far as I could judge, I received the +assurance that to wait His time was best; and that <span class="smcap">God</span> +in some way or other would interpose on my behalf. So +I waited, my heart being now at rest and the burden gone.</p> + +<p>About five o'clock that Saturday afternoon, when the +doctor had finished writing his prescriptions, his last +circuit for the day being taken, he threw himself back in +his arm-chair, as he was wont, and began to speak of the +things of <span class="smcap">God</span>. He was a truly Christian man, and many +seasons of very happy spiritual fellowship we had together. +I was busily watching, at the time, a pan in which a +decoction was boiling that required a good deal of attention. +It was indeed fortunate for me that it was so, for without +any obvious connection with what had been going on, all +at once he said, "By-the-bye, Taylor, is not your salary +due again?" My emotion may be imagined! I had to +swallow two or three times before I could answer. With +my eye fixed on the pan and my back to the doctor, +I told him as quietly as I could that it was overdue some +little time. How thankful I felt at that moment! <span class="smcap">God</span> +surely had heard my prayer, and caused him, in this +time of my great need, to remember the salary without +any word or suggestion from me. He replied, "Oh, I am +so sorry you did not remind me! You know how busy I<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[21]</a></span> +am; I wish I had thought of it a little sooner, for only +this afternoon I sent all the money I had to the bank, +otherwise I would pay you at once." It is impossible to +describe the revulsion of feeling caused by this unexpected +statement. I knew not what to do. Fortunately for me +my pan boiled up, and I had a good reason for rushing with +it from the room. Glad indeed I was to get away, and +keep out of sight until after the doctor had returned to his +house, and most thankful that he had not perceived my +emotion.</p> + +<p>As soon as he was gone I had to seek my little +sanctum, and pour out my heart before the <span class="smcap">Lord</span> for some +time, before calmness—and more than calmness—thankfulness, +and joy were restored to me. I felt that <span class="smcap">God</span> had +His own way, and was not going to fail me. I had sought +to know His will early in the day, and as far as I could +judge had received guidance to wait patiently; and now +<span class="smcap">God</span> was going to work for me in some other way.</p> + +<p>That evening was spent, as my Saturday evenings +usually were, in reading the Word and preparing the +subjects on which I expected to speak in the various +lodging-houses on the morrow. I waited, perhaps, a +little longer than usual. At last, about ten o'clock, there +being no interruption of any kind, I put on my overcoat, +and was preparing to leave for home, rather thankful +to know that by that time I should have to let myself +in with the latch-key, as my landlady retired early to +rest. There was certainly no help for that night; but +perhaps <span class="smcap">God</span> would interpose for me by Monday, and I +might be able to pay my landlady early in the week the +money I would have given her before, had it been possible.</p> + +<p>Just as I was preparing to turn down the gas, I heard +the doctor's step in the garden which lay between the +dwelling-house and surgery. He was laughing to himself<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[22]</a></span> +very heartily, as though greatly amused by something. +Entering the surgery, he asked for the ledger, and told +me that, strange to say, one of his richest patients had +just come to pay his doctor's bill—was it not an odd +thing to do? It never struck me that it might have any +bearing on my own particular case, or I might have felt +embarrassed; but looking at it simply from the position of +an uninterested spectator, I also was highly amused that a +man who was rolling in wealth should come after ten +o'clock at night to pay a doctor's bill, which he could any +day have met by a cheque with the greatest ease. It +appeared that somehow or other he could not rest with +this on his mind, and had been constrained to come +at that unusual hour to discharge his liability.</p> + +<p>The account was duly receipted in the ledger, and +the doctor was about to leave, when suddenly he turned, +and handing me some of the bank notes just received, +said, to my surprise and thankfulness, "By the way, Taylor, +you might as well take these notes; I have not any change, +but can give you the balance next week." Again I was +left—my feelings undiscovered—to go back to my own +little closet and praise the <span class="smcap">Lord</span> with a joyful heart that +after all I might go to China.</p> + +<p>To me this incident was not a trivial one; and to recall +it sometimes, in circumstances of great difficulty, in China +or elsewhere, has proved no small comfort and strength.</p> + +<p>By-and-by the time drew near when it was thought desirable +that I should leave Hull to attend the medical course +of the London Hospital. A little while spent there, and +then I had every reason to believe that my life-work in +China would commence. But much as I had rejoiced +at the willingness of <span class="smcap">God</span> to hear and answer prayer and +to help His half-trusting, half-timid child, I felt that I +could not go to China without having still further developed<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[23]</a></span> +and tested my power to rest upon His faithfulness; +and a marked opportunity for doing so was providentially +afforded me.</p> + +<p>My dear father had offered to bear all the expense of +my stay in London. I knew, however, that, owing to +recent losses, it would mean a considerable sacrifice for +him to undertake this just when it seemed necessary for +me to go forward. I had recently become acquainted +with the Committee of the Chinese Evangelisation Society, +in connection with which I ultimately left for China, +and especially with its secretary, my esteemed and much-loved +friend Mr. George Pearse, then of the Stock Exchange, +but now<a name="FNanchor_1_1" id="FNanchor_1_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a> and for many years himself a missionary. +Not knowing of my father's proposition, the Committee +also kindly offered to bear my expenses while in London. +When these proposals were first made to me, I was not +quite clear as to what I ought to do, and in writing to +my father and the secretaries, told them that I would +take a few days to pray about the matter before deciding +any course of action. I mentioned to my father that +I had had this offer from the Society, and told the +secretaries also of his proffered aid.</p> + +<p>Subsequently, while waiting upon <span class="smcap">God</span> in prayer for +guidance, it became clear to my mind that I could without +difficulty decline both offers. The secretaries of the +Society would not know that I had cast myself wholly +on <span class="smcap">God</span> for supplies, and my father would conclude that +I had accepted the other offer. I therefore wrote declining +both propositions, and felt that without any one having +either care or anxiety on my account I was simply in the +hands of <span class="smcap">God</span>, and that He, who knew my heart, if He +wished to encourage me to go to China, would bless my +effort to depend upon Him alone at home.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[24]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus07.jpg" width="500" height="175" alt="Ch'ung-k'ing, the Yang-tsi, and mountains beyond" title="Ch'ung-k'ing, the Yang-tsi, and mountains beyond" /> +</div> + +<h2>CHAPTER V</h2> + +<h3>LIFE IN LONDON</h3> + + +<div class='cap'>I MUST not now attempt to detail the ways in which +the <span class="smcap">Lord</span> was pleased—often to my surprise, as well as +to my delight—to help me from time to time. I soon found +that it was not possible to live quite as economically in +London as in Hull. To lessen expenses I shared a room +with a cousin, four miles from the hospital, providing +myself with board; and after various experiments I found +that the most economical way was to live almost exclusively +on brown bread and water. Thus I was able to make the +means that <span class="smcap">God</span> gave me last as long as possible. Some +of my expenses I could not diminish, but my board was +largely within my own control. A large twopenny loaf of +brown bread, purchased daily on my long walk from the +hospital, furnished me with supper and breakfast; and on +that diet, with a few apples for lunch, I managed to walk +eight or nine miles a day, besides being a good deal on +foot while attending the practice of the hospital and the +medical school.</div> + +<p>One incident that occurred just about this time I must +refer to. The husband of my former landlady in Hull was +chief officer of a ship that sailed from London, and by +receiving his half-pay monthly and remitting it to her I +was able to save her the cost of a commission. This I<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[25]</a></span> +had been doing for several months, when she wrote requesting +that I would obtain the next payment as early as +possible, as her rent was almost due, and she depended +upon that sum to meet it. The request came at an +inconvenient time. I was working hard for an examination +in the hope of obtaining a scholarship which would +be of service to me, and felt that I could ill afford the +time to go during the busiest part of the day to the city +and procure the money. I had, however, sufficient of my +own in hand to enable me to send the required sum. I +made the remittance therefore, purposing, as soon as the +examination was over, to go and draw the regular allowance +with which to refund myself.</p> + +<p>Before the time of examination the medical school +was closed for a day, on account of the funeral of the +Duke of Wellington, and I had an opportunity of going +at once to the office, which was situated in a street on +Cheapside, and applying for the due amount. To my +surprise and dismay the cleric told me that he could not +pay it, as the officer in question had run away from his +ship and gone to the gold diggings. "Well," I remarked, +"that is very inconvenient for me, as I have already +advanced the money, and I know his wife will have no +means of repaying it." The clerk said he was sorry, but +could of course only act according to orders; so there was +no help for me in that direction. A little more time and +thought, however, brought the comforting conclusion to my +mind, that as I was depending on the <span class="smcap">Lord</span> for everything, +and His means were not limited, it was a small +matter to be brought a little sooner or later into the +position of needing fresh supplies from Him; and so the +joy and the peace were not long interfered with.</p> + +<p>Very soon after this, possibly the same evening, while +sewing together some sheets of paper on which to take<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[26]</a></span> +notes of the lectures, I accidentally pricked the first finger +of my right hand, and in a few moments forgot all about +it. The next day at the hospital I continued dissecting +as before. The body was that of a person who had died +of fever, and was more than usually disagreeable and +dangerous. I need scarcely say that those of us who +were at work upon it dissected with special care, knowing +that the slightest scratch might cost us our lives. Before +the morning was far advanced I began to feel very weary, +and while going through the surgical wards at noon was +obliged to run out, being suddenly very sick—a most +unusual circumstance with me, as I took but little food +and nothing that could disagree with me. After feeling +faint for some time, a draught of cold water revived me, +and I was able to rejoin the students. I became more and +more unwell, however, and ere the afternoon lecture on +surgery was over found it impossible to hold the pencil and +continue taking notes. By the time the next lecture was +through, my whole arm and right side were full of severe +pain, and I was both looking and feeling very ill.</p> + +<p>Finding that I could not resume work, I went into +the dissecting-room to bind up the portion I was engaged +upon and put away my apparatus, and said to the demonstrator, +who was a very skilful surgeon, "I cannot think what +has come over me," describing the symptoms. "Why," +said he, "what has happened is clear enough: you must +have cut yourself in dissecting, and you know that this is a +case of malignant fever." I assured him that I had been +most careful, and was quite certain that I had no cut or +scratch. "Well," he replied, "you certainly must have +had one;" and he very closely scrutinised my hand to find +it, but in vain. All at once it occurred to me that I had +pricked my finger the night before, and I asked him if it +were possible that a prick from a needle, at that time, could<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[27]</a></span> +have been still unclosed. His opinion was that this was +probably the cause of the trouble, and he advised me to +get a hansom, drive home as fast as I could, and arrange +my affairs forthwith. "For," he said, "you are a dead +man."</p> + +<p>My first thought was one of sorrow that I could not go +to China; but very soon came the feeling, "Unless I am +greatly mistaken, I have work to do in China, and shall not +die." I was glad, however, to take the opportunity of +speaking to my medical friend, who was a confirmed +sceptic as to things spiritual, of the joy that the prospect +of perhaps soon being with my <span class="smcap">Master</span> gave me; telling +him at the same time that I did not think I should die, as, +unless I were much mistaken, I had work to do in China; +and if so, however severe the struggle, I must be brought +through. "That is all very well," he answered, "but you +get a hansom and drive home as fast as you can. You +have no time to lose, for you will soon be incapable of +winding up your affairs."</p> + +<p>I smiled a little at the idea of my driving home in +a hansom, for by this time my means were too exhausted +to allow of such a proceeding, and I set out to walk the +distance if possible. Before long, however, my strength +gave way, and I felt it was no use to attempt to reach +home by walking. Availing myself of an omnibus from +Whitechapel Church to Farringdon Street, and another +from Farringdon Street onwards, I reached, in great +suffering, the neighbourhood of Soho Square, behind +which I lived. On going into the house I got some +hot water from the servant, and charging her very earnestly—literally +as a dying man—to accept eternal life as the +gift of <span class="smcap">God</span> through <span class="smcap">Jesus Christ</span>, I bathed my head and +lanced the finger, hoping to let out some of the poisoned +blood. The pain was very severe; I fainted away, and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[28]</a></span> +was for some time unconscious, so long that when I +came to myself I found that I had been carried to bed.</p> + +<p>An uncle of mine who lived near at hand had come +in, and sent for his own medical man, an assistant surgeon +at the Westminster Hospital. I assured my uncle that +medical help would be of no service to me, and that I +did not wish to go to the expense involved. He, however, +quieted me on this score, saying that he had sent +for his own doctor, and that the bill would be charged to +himself. When the surgeon came and learned all the +particulars, he said, "Well, if you have been living moderately, +you may pull through; but if you have been going +in for beer and that sort of thing, there is no manner of +chance for you." I thought that if sober living was to +do anything, few could have a better chance, as little but +bread and water had been my diet for a good while past. +I told him I had lived abstemiously, and found that it +helped me in study. "But now," he said, "you must keep +up your strength, for it will be a pretty hard struggle." +And he ordered me a bottle of port wine every day, and +as many chops as I could consume. Again I smiled inwardly, +having no means for the purchase of such luxuries. +This difficulty, however, was also met by my kind uncle, +who sent me at once all that was needed.</p> + +<p>I was much concerned, notwithstanding the agony +I suffered, that my dear parents should not be made +acquainted with my state. Thought and prayer had satisfied +me that I was not going to die, but that there was +indeed a work for me to do in China. If my dear parents +should come up and find me in that condition, I must +lose the opportunity of seeing how <span class="smcap">God</span> was going to work +for me, now that my money had almost come to an end. +So, after prayer for guidance, I obtained a promise from +my uncle and cousin not to write to my parents, but to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[29]</a></span> +leave me to communicate with them myself. I felt it was +a very distinct answer to prayer when they gave me +this promise, and I took care to defer all communication +with them myself until the crisis was past and the worst +of the attack over. At home they knew that I was working +hard for an examination, and did not wonder at my +silence.</p> + +<p>Days and nights of suffering passed slowly by; but +at length, after several weeks, I was sufficiently restored to +leave my room; and then I learned that two men, though +not from the London Hospital, who had had dissection +wounds at the same time as myself, had both succumbed, +while I was spared in answer to prayer to work for <span class="smcap">God</span> +in China.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus08.jpg" width="500" height="393" alt="Water gate and Custom house, Soo-chow " title="Water gate and Custom house, Soo-chow " /> +</div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[30]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus09.jpg" width="500" height="161" alt="View on the Kwang-sin River" title="View on the Kwang-sin River" /> +</div> +<h2>CHAPTER VI</h2> + +<h3>STRENGTHENED BY FAITH</h3> + + +<div class='cap'>ONE day the doctor coming in found me on the sofa, +and was surprised to learn that with assistance I had +walked downstairs. "Now," he said, "the best thing you +can go is to get off to the country as soon as you feel +equal to the journey. You must rusticate until you have +recovered a fair amount of health and strength, for if you +begin your work too soon the consequences may still be +serious." When he had left, as I lay very exhausted on +the sofa, I just told the <span class="smcap">Lord</span> all about it, and that I was +refraining from making my circumstances known to those +who would delight to meet my need, in order that my faith +might be strengthened by receiving help from Himself in +answer to prayer alone. What was I to do? And I waited +for His answer.</div> + +<p>It seemed to me as if He were directing my mind to +the conclusion to go again to the shipping office, and inquire +about the wages I had been unable to draw. I reminded +the <span class="smcap">Lord</span> that I could not afford to take a conveyance, and +that it did not seem at all likely that I should succeed in +getting the money, and asked whether this impulse was +not a mere clutching at a straw, some mental process of +my own, rather than His guidance and teaching. After +prayer, however, and renewed waiting upon <span class="smcap">God</span>, I was<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[31]</a></span> +confirmed in my belief that He Himself was teaching me +to go to the office.</p> + +<p>The next question was, "How am I to go?" I had +had to seek help in coming downstairs, and the place was +at least two miles away. The assurance was brought +vividly home to me that whatever I asked of <span class="smcap">God</span> in the +name of <span class="smcap">Christ</span> would be done, that the <span class="smcap">Father</span> might +be glorified in the <span class="smcap">Son</span>; that what I had to do was to +seek strength for the long walk, to receive it by faith, +and to set out upon it. Unhesitatingly I told the <span class="smcap">Lord</span> +that I was quite willing to take the walk if He would give +me the strength. I asked in the name of <span class="smcap">Christ</span> that +the strength might be immediately given; and sending +the servant up to my room for my hat and stick, I set +out, not to <i>attempt</i> to walk, but <span class="smcap">to walk</span> to Cheapside.</p> + +<p>Although undoubtedly strengthened by faith, I never +took so much interest in shop windows as I did upon that +journey. At every second or third step I was glad to +lean a little against the plate glass, and take time to +examine the contents of the windows before passing on. +It needed a special effort of faith when I got to the +bottom of Farringdon Street to attempt the toilsome ascent +of Snow Hill: there was no Holborn Viaduct in those +days, and it had to be done. <span class="smcap">God</span> did wonderfully help +me, and in due time I reached Cheapside, turned into +the by-street in which the office was found, and sat down +much exhausted on the steps leading to the first floor, +which was my destination. I felt my position to be a +little peculiar—sitting there on the steps, so evidently +spent—and the gentlemen who rushed up and downstairs +looked at me with an inquiring gaze. After a +little rest, however, and a further season of prayer, I +succeeded in climbing the staircase, and to my comfort +found in the office the clerk with whom I had hitherto<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[32]</a></span> +dealt in the matter. Seeing me looking pale and exhausted, +he kindly inquired as to my health, and I told +him that I had had a serious illness, and was ordered +to the country, but thought it well to call first, and make +further inquiry, lest there should have been any mistake +about the mate having run off to the gold diggings. +"Oh," he said, "I am so glad you have come, for it turns +out that it was an able seaman of the same name that ran +away. The mate is still on board; the ship has just +reached Gravesend, and will be up very soon. I shall +be glad to give you the half-pay up to date, for doubtless +it will reach his wife more safely through you. We all +know what temptations beset the men when they arrive at +home after a voyage."</p> + +<p>Before, however, giving me the sum of money, he +insisted upon my coming inside and sharing his lunch. I +felt it was the <span class="smcap">Lord</span> indeed who was providing for me, and +accepted his offer with thankfulness. When I was refreshed +and rested, he gave me a sheet of paper to write a few lines +to the wife, telling her of the circumstances. On my way +back I procured in Cheapside a money order for the balance +due to her, and posted it; and returning home again, felt +myself now quite justified in taking an omnibus as far as it +would serve me.</p> + +<p>Very much better the next morning, after seeing to +some little matters that I had to settle, I made my way to +the surgery of the doctor who had attended me, feeling +that, although my uncle was prepared to pay the bill, it +was right for me, now that I had some money in hand, to +ask for the account myself. The kind surgeon refused to +allow me, as a medical student, to pay anything for his +attendance: but he had supplied me with quinine, which +he allowed me to pay for to the extent of eight shillings. +When that was settled, I saw that the sum left was just<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[33]</a></span> +sufficient to take me home; and to my mind the whole +thing seemed a wonderful interposition of <span class="smcap">God</span> on my +behalf.</p> + +<p>I knew that the surgeon was sceptical, and told him that +I should very much like to speak to him freely, if I might +do so without offence; that I felt that under <span class="smcap">God</span> I owed +my life to his kind care, and wished very earnestly that he +himself might become a partaker of the same precious faith +that I possessed. So I told him my reason for being in +London, and about my circumstances, and why I had +declined the help of both my father and the officers of the +Society in connection with which it was probable that I +should go to China. I told him of the recent providential +dealings of <span class="smcap">God</span> with me, and how apparently hopeless +my position had been the day before, when he had ordered +me to go to the country, unless I would reveal my need, +which I had determined not to do. I described to him +the mental exercises I had gone through; but when I +added that I had actually got up from the sofa and walked +to Cheapside, he looked at me incredulously, and +"Impossible! Why, I left you lying there more like a +ghost than a man." And I had to assure him again and +again that, strengthened by faith, the walk had really been +taken. I told him also what money was left to me, and +what payments there had been to make, and showed him +that just sufficient remained to take me home to Yorkshire, +providing for needful refreshment by the way and the +omnibus journey at the end.</p> + +<p>My kind friend was completely broken down, and said +with tears in his eyes, "I would give all the world for a +faith like yours." I, on the other hand, had the joy of +telling him that it was to be obtained without money and +without price. We never met again. When I came back +to town, restored to health and strength, I found that he<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[34]</a></span> +had had a stroke, and left for the country; and I subsequently +learned that he never rallied. I was able to +gain no information as to his state of mind when taken +away; but I have always felt very thankful that I had the +opportunity, and embraced it, of bearing that testimony for +<span class="smcap">God</span>. I cannot but entertain the hope that the <span class="smcap">Master</span> +Himself was speaking to him through His dealings with +me, and that I shall meet him again in the Better Land. +It would be no small joy to be welcomed by him, when +my own service is over.</p> + +<p>The next day found me in my dear parents' home. My +joy in the <span class="smcap">Lord</span>'s help and deliverance was so great that +I was unable to keep it to myself, and before my return to +London my dear mother knew the secret of my life for +some time past. I need scarcely say that when I went up +again to town I was not allowed to live—as, indeed, I was +not fit to live—on the same economical lines as before +my illness. I needed more now, and the <span class="smcap">Lord</span> did provide.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus10.jpg" width="500" height="263" alt="Temple and memorial portal" title="Temple and memorial portal" /> +</div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[35]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<a href="images/illus11-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus11.jpg" width="500" height="190" alt=""Compassionate heart, benevolent methods"" title=""Compassionate heart, benevolent methods"" /> +</a></div> +<h2>CHAPTER VII</h2> + +<h3>MIGHTY TO SAVE</h3> + + +<div class='cap'>RETURNING to London when sufficiently recovered +to resume my studies, the busy life of hospital and +lecture-hall was resumed; often relieved by happy Sundays +of fellowship with Christian friends, especially in London or +Tottenham. Opportunities for service are to be found in +every sphere, and mine was no exception. I shall only +mention one case now that gave me great encouragement +in seeking conversion even when it seemed apparently +hopeless.</div> + +<p><span class="smcap">God</span> had given me the joy of winning souls before, but +not in surroundings of such special difficulty. With <span class="smcap">God</span> +all things are possible, and no conversion ever takes place +save by the almighty power of the <span class="smcap">Holy Ghost</span>. The +great need, therefore, of every Christian worker is to <i>know</i> +<span class="smcap">God</span>. Indeed, this is the purpose for which He has given +us eternal life, as our <span class="smcap">Saviour</span> Himself says, in the oft +misquoted verse, John xvii. 3: "This is [the object of] +life eternal, [not <i>to</i> know but] that they <i>might</i> know Thee +the only true <span class="smcap">God</span>, and <span class="smcap">Jesus Christ</span>, whom Thou hast +sent." I was now to prove the willingness of <span class="smcap">God</span> to +answer prayer for spiritual blessing under most unpromising +circumstances, and thus to gain an increased acquaintance +with the prayer-answering <span class="smcap">God</span> as One "mighty to save."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[36]</a></span></p> + +<p>A short time before leaving for China, it became my duty +daily to dress the foot of a patient suffering from senile +gangrene. The disease commenced, as usual, insidiously, +and the patient had little idea that he was a doomed man, +and probably had not long to live. I was not the first to +attend to him, but when the case was transferred to me, I +naturally became very anxious about his soul. The family +with whom he lived were Christians, and from them I +learned that he was an avowed atheist, and very antagonistic +to anything religious. They had, without asking his consent, +invited a Scripture reader to visit him, but in great passion +he had ordered him from the room. The vicar of the district +had also called, hoping to help him; but he had spit in his +face, and refused to allow him to speak to him. His +passionate temper was described to me as very violent, +and altogether the case seemed to be as hopeless as could +well be imagined.</p> + +<p>Upon first commencing to attend him I prayed much +about it; but for two or three days said nothing to him +of a religious nature. By special care in dressing his +diseased limb I was able considerably to lessen his sufferings, +and he soon began to manifest grateful appreciation +of my services. One day, with a trembling heart, I took +advantage of his warm acknowledgments to tell him what +was the spring of my action, and to speak of his own +solemn position and need of <span class="smcap">God</span>'s mercy through <span class="smcap">Christ</span>. +It was evidently only by a powerful effort of self-restraint +that he kept his lips closed. He turned over in bed +with his back to me, and uttered no word.</p> + +<p>I could not get the poor man out of my mind, and +very often through each day I pleaded with <span class="smcap">God</span>, by His +<span class="smcap">Spirit</span>, to save him ere He took him hence. After dressing +the wound and relieving his pain, I never failed to say a +few words to him, which I hoped the <span class="smcap">Lord</span> would bless.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[37]</a></span> +He always turned his back to me, looking annoyed, but +never spoke a word in reply.</p> + +<p>After continuing this for some time, my heart sank. It +seemed to me that I was not only doing no good, but perhaps +really hardening him and increasing his guilt. One day, +after dressing his limb and washing my hands, instead of +returning to the bedside to speak to him, I went to the door, +and stood hesitating for a few moments with the thought in +my mind, "Ephraim is joined to his idols; let him alone." +I looked at the man and saw his surprise, as it was the first +time since speaking to him that I had attempted to leave +without going up to his bedside to say a few words for my +<span class="smcap">Master</span>. I could bear it no longer. Bursting into tears, +I crossed the room and said, "My friend, whether you +will hear or whether you will forbear, I <i>must</i> deliver <i>my</i> +soul," and went on to speak very earnestly to him, telling +him with many tears how much I wished that he would let +me pray with him. To my unspeakable joy he did not +turn away, but replied, "If it will be a relief to you, do." +I need scarcely say that I fell on my knees and poured +out my whole soul to <span class="smcap">God</span> on his behalf. I believe the +<span class="smcap">Lord</span> then and there wrought a change in his soul.</p> + +<p>He was never afterwards unwilling to be spoken to and +prayed with, and within a few days he definitely accepted +<span class="smcap">Christ</span> as his <span class="smcap">Saviour</span>. Oh the joy it was to me to see +that dear man rejoicing in hope of the glory of <span class="smcap">God</span>! +He told me that for forty years he had never darkened the +door of church or chapel, and that then—forty years ago—he +had only entered a place of worship to be married, +and could not be persuaded to go inside when his wife was +buried. Now, thank <span class="smcap">God</span>, his sin-stained soul, I had every +reason to believe, was washed, was sanctified, was justified, +in the Name of the <span class="smcap">Lord Jesus Christ</span> and in the <span class="smcap">Spirit</span> +of our <span class="smcap">God</span>. Oftentimes, when in my early work in China<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[38]</a></span> +circumstances rendered me almost hopeless of success, I +have thought of this man's conversion, and have been +encouraged to persevere in speaking the Word, whether +men would hear or whether they would forbear.</p> + +<p>The now happy sufferer lived for some time after this +change, and was never tired of bearing testimony to the +grace of <span class="smcap">God</span>. Though his condition was most distressing, +the alteration in his character and behaviour made the +previously painful duty of attending him one of real pleasure. +I have often thought since, in connection with this +case and the work of <span class="smcap">God</span> generally, of the words, "He +that goeth forth <i>weeping</i>, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless +come again rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him." +Perhaps if there were more of that intense distress for +souls that leads to tears, we should more frequently see the +results we desire. Sometimes it may be that while we are +complaining of the hardness of the hearts of those we +are seeking to benefit, the hardness of our own hearts, +and our own feeble apprehension of the solemn reality of +eternal things, may be the true cause of our want of +success.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus12.jpg" width="500" height="260" alt="Outside the wall of Gan-k'ing" title="Outside the wall of Gan-k'ing" /> +</div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[39]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus13.jpg" width="500" height="166" alt="The new girls school at Chefoo" title="The new girls school at Chefoo" /> +</div> +<h2>CHAPTER VIII</h2> + +<h3>VOYAGE TO CHINA</h3> + + +<div class='cap'>SOON after this the time so long looked forward to +arrived—the time that I was to leave England +for China. After being set apart with many prayers +for the ministry of <span class="smcap">God</span>'s Word among the heathen +Chinese I left London for Liverpool; and on the 19th +of September 1853 a little service was held in the stern +cabin of the <i>Dumfries</i>, which had been secured for me by +the Committee of the Chinese Evangelisation Society, under +whose auspices I was going to China.</div> + +<p>My beloved, now sainted, mother had come to see me +off from Liverpool. Never shall I forget that day, nor +how she went with me into the little cabin that was to +be my home for nearly six long months. With a mother's +loving hand she smoothed the little bed. She sat by my +side, and joined me in the last hymn that we should sing +together before the long parting. We knelt down, and +she prayed—the last mother's prayer I was to hear before +starting for China. Then notice was given that we must +separate, and we had to say good-bye, never expecting to +meet on earth again.</p> + +<p>For my sake she restrained her feelings as much as +possible. We parted; and she went on shore, giving me +her blessing; I stood alone on deck, and she followed the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[40]</a></span> +ship as we moved towards the dock gates. As we passed +through the gates, and the separation really commenced, +I shall never forget the cry of anguish wrung from that +mother's heart. It went through me like a knife. I never +knew so fully, until then, what <span class="smcap">God</span> <i>so</i> loved the world +meant. And I am quite sure that my precious mother +learned more of the love of <span class="smcap">God</span> to the perishing in that +hour than in all her life before.</p> + +<p>Oh, how it must grieve the heart of <span class="smcap">God</span> when He sees +His children indifferent to the needs of that wide world for +which His beloved, His only begotten <span class="smcap">Son</span> died!</p> + +<div class='poem2'> +Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear;<br /> +Forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;<br /> +So shall the <span class="smcap">King</span> desire thy beauty:<br /> +For He is thy <span class="smcap">Lord</span>; and worship thou Him.<br /> +</div> + +<p>Praise <span class="smcap">God</span>, the number is increasing who are finding out +the exceeding joys, the wondrous revelations of His mercies, +vouchsafed to those who follow Him, and emptying themselves, +leave all in obedience to His great commission.</p> + +<p>It was on 19th September 1853 that the <i>Dumfries</i> +sailed for China; and not until 1st March, in the spring +of the following year, did I arrive in Shanghai.</p> + +<p>Our voyage had a rough beginning, but many had +promised to remember us in constant prayer. No small +comfort was this; for we had scarcely left the Mersey when +a violent equinoctial gale caught us, and for twelve days we +were beating backwards and forwards in the Irish Channel, +unable to get out to sea. The gale steadily increased, and +after almost a week we lay to for a time; but drifting on +a lee coast, we were compelled again to make sail, and +endeavoured to beat on to windward. The utmost efforts +of the captain and crew, however, were unavailing; and +Sunday night, 25th September, found us drifting into<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[41]</a></span> +Carnarvon Bay, each tack becoming shorter, until at last +we were within a stone's-throw of the rocks. About this +time, as the ship, which had refused to stay, was put round +in the other direction, the Christian captain said to me, +"We cannot live half an hour now: what of your call to +labour for the <span class="smcap">Lord</span> in China?" I had previously passed +through a time of much conflict, but that was over, and it +was a great joy to feel and to tell him that I would not for +any consideration be in any other position; that I strongly +expected to reach China; but that, if otherwise, at any rate +the Master would say it was well that I was found seeking +to obey His command.</p> + +<p>Within a few minutes after wearing ship the captain +walked, up to the compass, and said to me, "The wind has +freed two points; we shall be able to beat out of the bay." +And so we did. The bowsprit was sprung and the vessel +seriously strained; but in a few days we got out to sea, and +the necessary repairs were so thoroughly effected on board +that our journey to China was in due time satisfactorily +accomplished.</p> + +<p>One thing was a great trouble to me that night. I was +a very young believer, and had not sufficient faith in <span class="smcap">God</span> +to see Him in and through the use of means. I had felt +it a duty to comply with the earnest wish of my beloved +and honoured mother, and for her sake to procure a +swimming-belt. But in my own soul I felt as if I could +not simply trust in <span class="smcap">God</span> while I had this swimming-belt; +and my heart had no rest until on that night, after all +hope of being saved was gone, I had given it away. Then +I had perfect peace; and, strange to say, put several light +things together, likely to float at the time we struck, without +any thought of inconsistency or scruple. Ever since, I +have seen clearly the mistake I made—a mistake that is +very common in these days, when erroneous teaching on<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[42]</a></span> +faith-healing does much harm, misleading some as to the +purposes of <span class="smcap">God</span>, shaking the faith of others, and distressing +the minds of many. The use of means ought not to +lessen our faith in <span class="smcap">God</span>; and our faith in <span class="smcap">God</span> ought not +to hinder our using whatever means He has given us for the +accomplishment of His own purposes.</p> + +<p>For years after this I always took a swimming-belt with +me, and never had any trouble about it; for after the +storm was over, the question was settled for me, through +the prayerful study of the Scriptures. <span class="smcap">God</span> gave me then +to see my mistake, probably to deliver me from a great deal +of trouble on similar questions now so constantly raised. +When in medical or surgical charge of any case, I have +never thought of neglecting to ask <span class="smcap">God</span>'s guidance and +blessing in the use of appropriate means, nor yet of +omitting to give Him thanks for answered prayer and +restored health. But to me it would appear as presumptuous +and wrong to neglect the use of those measures +which He Himself has put within our reach, as to neglect +to take daily food, and suppose that life and health might +be maintained by prayer alone.</p> + +<p>The voyage was a very tedious one. We lost a good +deal of time on the equator from calms; and when we +finally reached the Eastern Archipelago, were again detained +from the same cause. Usually a breeze would spring up +soon after sunset, and last until about dawn. The utmost +use was made of it, but during the day we lay still with +flapping sails, often drifting back and losing a good deal of +the advantage we had gained during the night.</p> + +<p>This happened notably on one occasion, when we were +in dangerous proximity to the north of New Guinea. Saturday +night had brought us to a point some thirty miles off the +land; but during the Sunday morning service, which was +held on deck, I could not fail to notice that the captain<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[43]</a></span> +looked troubled, and frequently went over to the side of +the ship. When the service was ended, I learnt from him +the cause—a four-knot current was carrying us rapidly towards +some sunken reefs, and we were already so near that +it seemed improbable that we should get through the afternoon +in safety. After dinner the long-boat was put out, +and all hands endeavoured, without success, to turn the +ship's head from the shore. As we drifted nearer we +could plainly see the natives rushing about the sands +and lighting fires every here and there. The captain's +horn-book informed him that these people were cannibals, +so that our position was not a little alarming.</p> + +<p>After standing together on the deck for some time in +silence, the captain said to me, "Well, we have done everything +that can be done; we can only await the result." A +thought occurred to me, and I replied, "No, there is one +thing we have not done yet." "What is it?" he queried. +"Four of us on board are Christians," I answered (the +Swedish carpenter and our coloured steward, with the +captain and myself); "let us each retire to his own cabin, +and in agreed prayer ask the <span class="smcap">Lord</span> to give us immediately +a breeze. He can as easily send it now as at sunset."</p> + +<p>The captain complied with this proposal. I went and +spoke to the other two men, and after prayer with the carpenter +we all four retired to wait upon <span class="smcap">God</span>. I had a good +but very brief season in prayer, and then felt so satisfied that +our request was granted that I could not continue asking, +and very soon went up again on deck. The first officer, +a godless man, was in charge. I went over and asked him +to let down the clews or corners of the mainsail, which +had been drawn up in order to lessen the useless flapping +of the sail against the rigging. He answered, "What would +be the good of that?" I told him we had been asking +a wind from <span class="smcap">God</span>, that it was coming immediately, and we<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[44]</a></span> +were so near the reef by this time that there was not a +minute to lose. With a look of incredulity and contempt, +he said with an oath that he would rather see a wind than +hear of it! But while he was speaking I watched his eye, +and followed it up to the royal (the topmost sail), and +there, sure enough, the corner of the sail was beginning +to tremble in the coming breeze. "Don't you see the +wind is coming? Look at the royal!" I exclaimed. "No, +it is only a cat's-paw," he rejoined (a mere puff of wind). +"Cat's-paw or not," I cried, "pray let down the mainsail, +and let us have the benefit!"</p> + +<p>This he was not slow to do. In another minute the +heavy tread of the men on the deck brought up the +captain from his cabin to see what was the matter; and he +saw that the breeze had indeed come. In a few minutes +we were ploughing our way at six or seven knots an hour +through the water, and the multitude of naked savages +whom we had seen on the beach had no wreckage that +night. We were soon out of danger; and though the +wind was sometimes unsteady, we did not altogether lose +it until after passing the Pelew Islands.</p> + +<p>Thus <span class="smcap">God</span> encouraged me, ere landing on China's +shores, to bring every variety of need to Him in prayer, +and <i>to expect that He would honour the Name</i> of the <span class="smcap">Lord</span> +<span class="smcap">Jesus</span>, and give the help which each emergency required.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus14.jpg" width="500" height="229" alt="Entrance to the Po-yang lake" title="Entrance to the Po-yang lake" /> +</div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[45]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus15.jpg" width="500" height="194" alt="A fair wind, at sunset, on the lake" title="A fair wind, at sunset, on the lake" /> +</div> +<h2>CHAPTER IX</h2> + +<h3>EARLY MISSIONARY EXPERIENCES</h3> + + +<div class='cap'>ON landing in Shanghai on 1st March 1854, I found +myself surrounded with difficulties that were wholly +unexpected. A band of rebels, known as the "Red Turbans," +had taken possession of the native city, against which was +encamped an Imperial army of from forty to fifty thousand +men, who were a much greater source of discomfort and +danger to the little European community than were the +rebels themselves. Upon landing, I was told that to live +outside the Settlement was impossible, while within the +foreign concession apartments were scarcely obtainable at +any price. The dollar, now worth about three shillings, +had risen to a value of eight-and-ninepence, and the +prospect for one with only a small income of English +money was dark indeed. However, I had three letters of +introduction, and counted on counsel and help, especially +from one of those to whom I had been commended, whose +friends I well knew and highly valued. Of course I sought +him out at once, but only to learn that he had been buried +a month or two before, having died from fever during the +time of my voyage.</div> + +<p>Saddened by these tidings, I inquired for a missionary +to whom another of my letters of introduction was +addressed; but a further disappointment awaited me—he<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[46]</a></span> +had left for America. The third letter remained; but as +it had been given by a comparative stranger, I had +expected less from it than from the other two. It proved, +however, to be <span class="smcap">God</span>'s channel of help. The Rev. Dr. +Medhurst, of the London Mission, to whom it was +addressed, introduced me to Dr. Lockhart, who kindly +allowed me to live with him for six months. Dr. +Medhurst procured my first Chinese teacher; and he, Dr. +Edkins, and the late Mr. Alexander Wylie gave me +considerable help with the language.</p> + +<p>Those were indeed troublous times, and times of +danger. Coming out of the city one day with Mr. Wylie, +he entered into conversation with two coolies, while we +waited a little while at the East Gate for a companion who +was behind us. Before our companion came up an attack +upon the city from the batteries on the opposite side of the +river commenced, which caused us to hurry away to a place +of less danger, the whiz of the balls being unpleasantly near. +The coolies, unfortunately, stayed too long, and were +wounded. On reaching the Settlement we stopped a +few minutes to make a purchase, and then proceeded at +once to the London Mission compound, where, at the +door of the hospital, we found the two poor coolies +with whom Mr. Wylie had conversed, their four ankles +terribly shattered by a cannon ball. The poor fellows +declined amputation, and both died. We felt how narrow +had been our escape.</p> + +<p>At another time, early in the morning, I had joined one +of the missionaries on his verandah to watch the battle +proceeding, at a distance of perhaps three-quarters of a +mile, when suddenly a spent ball passed between us and +buried itself in the verandah wall. Another day my friend +Mr. Wylie left a book on the table after luncheon, and +returning for it about five minutes later, found the arm of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[47]</a></span> +the chair on which he had been sitting shot clean away. +But in the midst of these and many other dangers <span class="smcap">God</span> +protected us.</p> + +<p>After six months' stay with Dr. Lockhart, I rented a +native house outside the Settlement, and commenced a +little missionary work amongst my Chinese neighbours, +which for a few months continued practicable. When the +French joined the Imperialists in attacking the city, the +position of my house became so dangerous that during +the last few weeks, in consequence of nightly recurring +skirmishes, I gave up attempting to sleep except in the +daytime. One night a fire appeared very near, and I +climbed up to a little observatory I had arranged on the +roof of the house, to see whether it was necessary to attempt +escape. While there a ball struck the ridge of the roof on +the opposite side of the quadrangle, showering pieces of +broken tile all around me, while the ball itself rolled down +into the court below. It weighed four or five pounds; +and had it come a few inches higher, would probably have +spent its force on me instead of on the building. My dear +mother kept the ball for many years. Shortly after this I had +to abandon the house and return to the Foreign Settlement—a +step that was taken none too soon, for before the last of my +belongings were removed, the house was burnt to the ground.</p> + +<p>Of the trials of this early period it is scarcely possible +to convey any adequate idea. To one of a sensitive +nature, the horrors, atrocities, and misery connected with +war were a terrible ordeal. The embarrassment also of +the times was considerable. With an income of only +eighty pounds a year, I was compelled, upon moving into +the Settlement, to give one hundred and twenty for rent, +and sublet half the house; and though the Committee of +the Chinese Evangelisation Society increased my income +when, after the arrival of Dr. Parker, they learned more of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[48]</a></span> +our circumstances, many painful experiences had necessarily +been passed through. Few can realise how distressing to +so young and untried a worker these difficulties seemed, or +the intense loneliness of the position of a pioneer who could +not even hint at many of his circumstances, as to do so +would have been a tacit appeal for help.</p> + +<p>The great enemy is always ready with his oft-repeated +suggestion, "All these things are against me." But oh, +how false the word! The cold, and even the hunger, the +watchings and sleeplessness of nights of danger, and the +feeling at times of utter isolation and helplessness, were +well and wisely chosen, and tenderly and lovingly meted +out. What circumstances could have rendered the Word +of <span class="smcap">God</span> more sweet, the presence of <span class="smcap">God</span> more real, the +help of <span class="smcap">God</span> more precious? They were times, indeed, of +emptying and humbling, but were experiences that made +not ashamed, and that strengthened purpose to go forward +as <span class="smcap">God</span> might direct, with His <i>proved</i> promise, "I will not +fail thee, nor forsake thee." One can see, even now, that +as for <span class="smcap">God</span>, His way is perfect, and yet can rejoice that +the missionary path of to-day is comparatively a smooth and +an easy one.</p> + +<p>Journeying inland was contrary to treaty arrangements, +and attended with much difficulty, especially for some time +after the battle of Muddy Flat, in which an Anglo-American +contingent of about three hundred marines and seamen, +with a volunteer corps of less than a hundred residents, +attacked the Imperial camp, and drove away from thirty to +fifty thousand Chinese soldiers, the range of our shot and +shell making the native artillery useless. Still, in the +autumn of 1854 a journey of perhaps a week's duration +was safely accomplished with Dr. Edkins, who of course +did the speaking and preaching, while I was able to help +in the distribution of books.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[49]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus16.jpg" width="500" height="170" alt="A view on the grand canal" title="A view on the grand canal" /> +</div> +<h2>CHAPTER X</h2> + +<h3>FIRST EVANGELISTIC EFFORTS</h3> + + +<div class='cap'>A JOURNEY taken in the spring of 1855 with the +Rev. J. S. Burden of the Church Missionary Society +(now the Bishop of Victoria, Hong-kong) was attended with +some serious dangers.</div> + +<p>In the great mouth of the river Yang-tse, distant some +thirty miles to the north of Shanghai, lies the group of +islands of which Ts'ung-ming and Hai-men are the largest +and most important; and farther up the river, where +the estuary narrows away from the sea, is situated the +influential city of T'ung-chau, close to Lang-shan, or the +Wolf Mountains, famous as a resort for pilgrim devotees. +We spent some time in evangelising on those islands, and +then proceeded to Lang-shan, where we preached and gave +books to thousands of the devotees who were attending an +idolatrous festival. From thence we went on to T'ung-chau, +and of our painful experiences there the following +journal will tell:—</p> + + +<div class='right'> +<i>Thursday, April 26th, 1855.</i><br /> +</div> + +<p>After breakfast we commended ourselves to the care of +our Heavenly <span class="smcap">Father</span>, and sought His Blessing before proceeding +to this great city. The day was dull and wet. We +felt persuaded that Satan would not allow us to assail his +kingdom, as we were attempting to do, without raising<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[50]</a></span> +serious opposition; but we were also fully assured that it +was the will of <span class="smcap">God</span> that we should preach <span class="smcap">Christ</span> in this +city, and distribute the Word of Truth among its people. +We were sorry that we had but few books left for such an +important place: the result, however, proved that this also +was providential.</p> + +<p>Our native teachers did their best to persuade us not to +go into the city; but we determined that, by <span class="smcap">God's</span> help, +nothing should hinder us. We directed them, however, to +remain in one of the boats; and if we did not return, to +learn whatever they could respecting our fate, and make all +possible haste to Shanghai with the information. We also +arranged that the other boat should wait for us, even if we +could not get back that night, so that we might not be +detained for want of a boat in case of returning later. We +then put our books into two bags, and with a servant who +always accompanied us on these occasions, set off for the +city, distant about seven miles. Walking was out of the +question, from the state of the roads, so we availed ourselves +of wheel-barrows, the only conveyance to be had in +these parts. A wheel-barrow is cheaper than a sedan, only +requiring one coolie; but is by no means an agreeable +conveyance on rough, dirty roads.</p> + +<p>We had not gone far before the servant requested +permission to go back, as he was thoroughly frightened by +reports concerning the native soldiery. Of course we at +once consented, not wishing to involve another in trouble, +and determined to carry the books ourselves, and look for +physical as well as spiritual strength to Him who had +promised to supply all our need.</p> + +<p>At this point a respectable man came up, and earnestly +warned us against proceeding, saying that if we did we +should find to our sorrow what the T'ung-chau militia were +like. We thanked him for his kindly counsel, but could<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[51]</a></span> +not act upon it, as our hearts were fixed, whether it were +to bonds, imprisonment, and death, or whether to distribute +our Scriptures and tracts in safety, and return unhurt, we +knew not; but we were determined, by the grace of <span class="smcap">God</span>, +not to leave T'ung-chau any longer without the Gospel, nor +its teeming thousands to die in uncared-for ignorance of +the Way of life.</p> + +<p>After this my wheel-barrow man would proceed no +farther, and I had to seek another, who was fortunately not +difficult to find. As we went on, the ride in the mud and +rain was anything but agreeable, and we could not help +feeling the danger of our position, although wavering not +for a moment. At intervals we encouraged one another +with promises from the Scripture and verses of hymns. +That verse—</p> + +<div class='poem'> +"The perils of the sea, the perils of the land,<br /> +Should not dishearten thee: thy <span class="smcap">Lord</span> is nigh at hand.<br /> +But should thy courage fail, when tried and sore oppressed,<br /> +His promise shall avail, and set thy soul at rest."<br /> +</div> + +<div class='unindent'>seemed particularly appropriate to our circumstances, and +was very comforting to me.</div> + +<p>On our way we passed through one small town of about +a thousand inhabitants; and here, in the Mandarin dialect, +I preached <span class="smcap">Jesus</span> to a good number of people. Never was +I so happy in speaking of the love of <span class="smcap">God</span> and the atonement +of <span class="smcap">Jesus Christ</span>. My own soul was richly blessed, +and filled with joy and peace; and I was able to speak +with unusual freedom and ease. And how rejoiced I was +when, afterwards, I heard one of our hearers repeating to +the newcomers, in his own local dialect, the truths upon +which I had been dwelling! Oh, how thankful I felt to +hear a Chinaman, of his own accord, telling his fellow-countrymen +that <span class="smcap">God</span> loved them; that they were sinners,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[52]</a></span> +but that <span class="smcap">Jesus</span> died instead of them, and paid the penalty +of their guilt. That one moment repaid me for all the +trials we had passed through; and I felt that if the <span class="smcap">Lord</span> +should grant <span class="smcap">His Holy Spirit</span> to change the heart of that +man, we had not come in vain.</p> + +<p>We distributed a few Testaments and tracts, for the +people were able to read, and we could not leave them +without the Gospel. It was well that we did so, for when +we reached T'ung-chau we found we had quite as many left +as we had strength to carry.</p> + +<p>Nearing the end of our journey, as we approached the +western suburb of the city, the prayer of the early +Christians, when persecution was commencing, came to my +mind: "And now, <span class="smcap">Lord</span>, behold their threatenings, and +grant unto Thy servants that with all boldness they may +speak Thy Word." In this petition we most heartily +united. Before entering the suburb we laid our plans, so +as to act in concert, and told our wheel-barrow men +where to await us, that they might not be involved in +any trouble on our account. Then looking up to our +Heavenly <span class="smcap">Father</span>, we committed ourselves to His keeping, +took our books, and set on for the city.</p> + +<p>For some distance we walked along the principal street +of the suburb leading to the West Gate unmolested, and +were amused at the unusual title of <i>Heh-kwei-tsi</i> (black +devils) which was applied to us. We wondered about it +at the time, but afterwards found that it was our clothes, +and not our skin, that gave rise to it. As we passed +several of the soldiers, I remarked to Mr. Burdon that +these were the men we had heard so much about, and that +they seemed willing to receive us quietly enough. Long +before we reached the gate, however, a tall powerful man, +made tenfold fiercer by partial intoxication, let us know +that all the militia were not so peaceably inclined, by seizing<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[53]</a></span> +Mr. Burdon by the shoulders. My companion endeavoured +to shake him off. I turned to see what was the matter, +and at once we were surrounded by a dozen or more brutal +men, who hurried us on to the city at a fearful pace.</p> + +<p>My bag now began to feel very heavy, and I could not +change hands to relieve myself. I was soon in a profuse +perspiration, and was scarcely able to keep pace with them. +We demanded to be taken before the chief magistrate, but +were told that they knew where to take us, and what to do +with such persons as we were, with the most insulting +epithets. The man who first seized Mr. Burdon soon afterwards +left him for me, and became my principal tormentor; +for I was neither so tall nor so strong as my friend, and +was therefore less able to resist him. He all but knocked +me down again and again, seized me by the hair, took hold +of my collar so as to almost choke me, and grasped my +arms and shoulders, making them black and blue. Had +this treatment continued much longer, I must have fainted. +All but exhausted, how refreshing was the remembrance of +a verse quoted by my dear mother in one of my last home +letters—</p> + +<div class='poem'> +"We speak of the realms of the blest,<br /> +That country so bright and so fair,<br /> +And oft are its glories confessed;<br /> +But what must it be to be there!"<br /> +</div> + +<div class='unindent'>To be absent from the body! to be present with the <span class="smcap">Lord</span>! +to be free from sin! And this is the end of the worst that +man's malice can ever bring upon us.</div> + +<p>As we were walking along Mr. Burdon tried to give +away a few books that he was carrying, not knowing +whether we might have another opportunity of doing so; +but the fearful rage of the soldier, and the way he insisted +on manacles being brought, which fortunately were not at<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[54]</a></span> +hand, convinced us that in our present position we could +do no good in attempting book-distribution. There was +nothing to be done but quietly to submit, and go along +with our captors.</p> + +<p>Once or twice a quarrel arose as to how we should be +dealt with; the more mild of our conductors saying that +we ought to be taken to the magistrate's office, but others +wishing to kill us at once without appeal to any authority. +Our minds were kept in perfect peace; and when thrown +together on one of these occasions, we reminded each other +that the Apostles rejoiced that they were counted <i>worthy</i> +to suffer in the cause of <span class="smcap">Christ</span>. Having succeeded in +getting my hand into my pocket, I produced a Chinese +card (if the large red paper, bearing one's name, may be so +called), and after this was treated with more respect. I +demanded it should be given to the chief official of the +place, and that we should be led to his office. Before this +we had been unable, say what we would, to persuade them that +we were foreigners, although we were both in English attire.</p> + +<p>Oh the long weary streets that we were dragged through! +I thought they would never end; and seldom have I felt +more thankful than when we stopped at a place where we +were told a mandarin resided. Quite exhausted, bathed in +perspiration, and with my tongue cleaving to the roof of +my mouth, I leaned against the wall, and saw that Mr. +Burdon was in much the same condition. I requested +them to bring us chairs, but they told us to wait; and +when I begged them to give us some tea, received only +the same answer. Round the doorway a large crowd +had gathered; and Mr. Burdon, collecting his remaining +strength, preached <span class="smcap">Christ Jesus</span> to them. Our cards and +books had been taken in to the mandarin, but he proved to +be one of low rank, and after keeping us waiting for some +time he referred us to his superiors in office.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[55]</a></span></p> + +<p>Upon hearing this, and finding that it was their purpose +to turn us out again into the crowded streets, we positively +refused to move a single step, and insisted on chairs being +brought. After some demur this was done; we seated +ourselves in them, and were carried on. On the road we +felt so glad of the rest which the chairs afforded us, and so +thankful at having been able to preach <span class="smcap">Jesus</span> in spite of +Satan's malice, that our joy was depicted on our countenances; +and as we passed along we heard some say that we +did not look like bad men, while others seemed to pity us. +When we arrived at the magistrate's office, I wondered +where we were being taken; for though we passed through +some great gates that looked like those of the city wall, we +were still evidently within the city. A second pair of +gates suggested the idea that it was a prison into which we +were being carried; but when we came in sight of a large +tablet, with the inscription "<i>Ming chï fu mu</i>" (the father and +mother of the people), we felt that we had been conveyed +to the right place; this being the title assumed by the +mandarins.</p> + +<p>Our cards were again sent in, and after a short delay we +were taken into the presence of Ch'en Ta Lao-ie (the Great +Venerable Father Ch'en), who, as it proved, had formerly +been Tao-tai of Shanghai, and consequently knew the +importance of treating foreigners with courtesy. Coming +before him, some of the people fell on their knees and +bowed down to the ground, and my conductor motioned +for me to do the same, but without success. This +mandarin, who seemed to be the highest authority of +T'ung-chau, and wore an opaque blue button on his cap, +came out to meet us, and treated us with every possible +token of respect. He took us to an inner apartment, a +more private room, but was followed by a large number +of writers, runners, and other semi-officials. I related the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[56]</a></span> +object of our visit, and begged permission to give him copies +of our books and tracts, for which he thanked me. As I +handed him a copy of the New Testament with part of +the Old (from Genesis to Ruth) and some tracts, I tried +to explain a little about them, and also to give him a brief +summary of our teachings. . . . He listened very attentively, +as of course did all the others present. He then ordered +some refreshments to be brought in, which were very +welcome, and himself partook of them with us.</p> + +<p>After a long stay, we asked permission to see something +of the city, and to distribute the books we had brought, +before our return. To this he kindly consented. We then +mentioned that we had been most disrespectfully treated as +we came in, but that we did not attach much importance +to the fact, being aware that the soldiers knew no better. +Not desiring, however, to have such an experience repeated, +we requested him to give orders that we were not to be +further molested. This also he promised to do, and with +every possible token of respect accompanied us to the door +of his official residence, sending several runners to see that +we were respectfully treated. We distributed our books +well and quickly, and left the city quite in state. It was +amusing to us to see the way in which the runners made +use of their tails. When the street was blocked by the +crowd, they turned them into whips, and laid them about +the people's shoulders to right and left!</p> + +<p>We had a little trouble in finding our wheel-barrows; +but eventually succeeding, we paid off the chair coolies, +mounted our humble vehicles, and returned to the river, +accompanied for fully half the distance by an attendant +from the magistrate's office. Early in the evening we got +back to the boats in safety, sincerely thankful to our +Heavenly <span class="smcap">Father</span> for His gracious protection and aid.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[57]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus17.jpg" width="500" height="178" alt="Down the Yang-tsi on a cargo boat" title="Down the Yang-tsi on a cargo boat" /> +</div> +<h2>CHAPTER XI</h2> + +<h3>WITH THE REV. WILLIAM BURNS</h3> + + +<div class='cap'>AFTER the retaking of Shanghai by the Imperialists, +in February 1855, I was enabled to rent a house +within the walls of the native city, and gladly availed +myself of this opportunity to reside amidst the crowded +population left to inhabit the ruins that had survived the +war. Here I made my headquarters, though often absent +on more or less prolonged itinerations.</div> + +<p>At the suggestion of the Rev. Dr. Medhurst, the veteran +leader of the London Mission, I was led at about this period +to adopt the native costume in preference to foreign dress, +to facilitate travel and residence inland. The Chinese had +permitted a foreign firm to build a silk factory some +distance inland, with the proviso that the style of building +must be purely Chinese, and that there should be +nothing external to suggest that it was foreign. Much +benefit was found to result from this change of costume; +and I, and most of those associated with me, have continued +to use native dress.</p> + +<p>The T'ai-p'ing rebellion, commenced in 1851, had by +this time reached the height of its ephemeral success. The +great city of Nan-king had fallen before the invading host; +and there, within two hundred miles of Shanghai, the rebels +had established their headquarters, and proceeded to fortify<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[58]</a></span> +themselves for further conquests. During the summer of +1855 various attempts were made to visit the leaders of +the movement, in order to bring to bear some decidedly +Christian influence upon them; but so little success was +met with, that these efforts were abandoned.</p> + +<p>I, amongst others, had sought to reach Nan-king; but +finding it impossible to do so, turned my attention again to +evangelistic work on the island of Ts'ung-ming. After +some time I was enabled so far to overcome the prejudice +and fears of the people as to rent a little house and settle +down in their midst. This was a great joy and encouragement +to me; but before many weeks were over complaints +were made by the local authorities to the British Consul, +who compelled me to retire; though the French Consul +had himself secured to the Romish missionaries a property +within three or four miles of the house I had to vacate. +Sorely tried and disappointed by this unexpected hindrance, +I reluctantly returned to Shanghai, little dreaming of the +blessing that <span class="smcap">God</span> had in store for me there.</p> + +<p>A few months previously the Rev. William Burns, of +the English Presbyterian Mission, had arrived in that port +on his return journey from home; and before proceeding +to his former sphere of service in the southern province +of <span class="smcap">Fu-kien</span>, he had endeavoured, like myself, without +success, to visit the T'ai-p'ing rebels at Nan-king. Failing +in this attempt, he made his headquarters in Shanghai for +a season, devoting himself to the evangelisation of the surrounding +populous regions. Thus in the autumn of the +year I was providentially led into association with this +beloved and honoured servant of <span class="smcap">God</span>.</p> + +<p>We journeyed together, evangelising cities and towns in +southern <span class="smcap">Kiang-su</span> and north <span class="smcap">Cheh-kiang</span>, living in our +boats, and following the course of the canals and rivers +which here spread like a network over the whole face of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[59]</a></span> +the rich and fertile country. Mr. Burns at that time was +wearing English dress; but saw that while I was the +younger and in every way less experienced, I had the quiet +hearers, while he was followed by the rude boys, and by +the curious but careless; that I was invited to the homes +of the people, while he received an apology that the crowd +that would follow precluded his being invited. After some +weeks of observation he also adopted the native dress, and +enjoyed the increased facilities which it gave.</p> + +<p>Those happy months were an unspeakable joy and +privilege to me. His love for the Word was delightful, +and his holy, reverential life and constant communings +with <span class="smcap">God</span> made fellowship with him satisfying to the deep +cravings of my heart. His accounts of revival work and +of persecutions in Canada, and Dublin, and in Southern +China were most instructive, as well as interesting; for +with true spiritual insight he often pointed out <span class="smcap">God</span>'s purposes +in trial in a way that made all life assume quite a +new aspect and value. His views especially about evangelism +as the great work of the Church, and the order of +lay evangelists as a lost order that Scripture required to be +restored, were seed-thoughts which were to prove fruitful in +the subsequent organisation of the China Inland Mission.</p> + +<p>Externally, however, our path was not always a smooth +one; but when permitted to stay for any length of time in +town or city, the opportunity was well utilised. We were +in the habit of leaving our boats, after prayer for blessing, +at about nine o'clock in the morning, with a light bamboo +stool in hand. Selecting a suitable station, one would +mount the stool and speak for twenty minutes, while the +other was pleading for blessing; and then changing places, +the voice of the first speaker had a rest. After an hour or +two thus occupied, we would move on to another point at +some distance from the first, and speak again. Usually<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[60]</a></span> +about midday we returned to our boats for dinner, fellowship, +and prayer, and then resumed our out-door work +until dusk. After tea and further rest, we would go with +our native helpers to some tea-shop, where several hours +might be spent in free conversation with the people. Not +infrequently before leaving a town we had good reason to +believe that much truth had been grasped; and we placed +many Scriptures and books in the hands of those interested. +The following letter was written by Mr. Burns to his +mother at home in Scotland about this time:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> +<div class='right'> +"<span class="smcap">Twenty-five miles from Shanghai</span>,<br /> +<span style="margin-right: 2em;"><i>January 26th, 1856</i>.</span><br /> +</div> + +<p>"Taking advantage of a rainy day which confines me to +my boat, I pen a few lines, in addition to a letter to Dundee, +containing particulars which I need not repeat. It is now +forty-one days since I left Shanghai on this last occasion. +A young English missionary, Mr. Taylor, of the Chinese +Evangelisation Society, has been my companion during these +weeks—he in his boat, and I in mine—and we have experienced +much mercy, and on some occasions considerable +assistance in our work.</p> + +<p>"I must once more tell the story I have had to tell +already more than once—how four weeks ago, on December +29th, I put on the Chinese dress, which I am now wearing. +Mr. Taylor had made this change a few months before, and +I found that he was, in consequence, so much less incommoded +in preaching, etc., by the crowd, that I concluded it +was my duty to follow his example. We were at that time +more than double the distance from Shanghai that we are +now, and would still have been at as great a distance had +we not met at one place with a band of lawless people, who +demanded money and threatened to break our boats if their +demands were refused. The boatmen were very much +alarmed, and insisted on returning to some place nearer +home. These people had previously broken in, violently,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[61]</a></span> +a part of Mr. Taylor's boat, because their unreasonable +demand for books was not complied with.</p> + +<p>"We have a large, very large, field of labour in this +region, though it might be difficult in the meantime for one +to establish himself in any particular place; the people +listen with attention, but we need the Power from on High +to convince and convert. Is there any spirit of prayer on +our behalf among <span class="smcap">God</span>'s people in Kilsyth? or is there any +effort to seek this spirit? How great the need is, and how +great the arguments and motives for prayer in this case. +The harvest here is indeed great, and the labourers are few, +and imperfectly fitted without much grace for such a work. +And yet grace can make the few and feeble instruments the +means of accomplishing great things—things greater than +we can even conceive."</p></div> + +<p>The incident referred to in this letter, which led to our +return to Shanghai more speedily than we had at first +intended, took place on the northern border of <span class="smcap">Cheh-kiang</span>. +We had reached a busy market town known by +the name of Wu-chen, or Black Town, the inhabitants of +which, we had been told, were the wildest and most lawless +people in that part of the country. Such indeed we found +them to be: the town was a refuge for salt smugglers and +other bad characters. The following extracts are taken +from my journal, written at the time:—</p> + + +<div class='right'> +<i>January 8th, 1856.</i><br /> +</div> + +<p>Commenced our work in Wu-chen this morning by distributing +a large number of tracts and some Testaments. +The people seemed much surprised, and we could not +learn that any foreigner had been here before. We +preached twice—once in the temple of the God of War, +and afterwards in an empty space left by a fire, which had +completely destroyed many houses. In the afternoon we +preached again to a large and attentive audience on the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[62]</a></span> +same site; and in the evening adjourned to a tea-shop, +where we had a good opportunity of speaking until it got +noised abroad that we were there, when, too many people +coming in, we were obliged to leave. Our native assistants, +Tsien and Kuei-hua, were able, however, to remain. +Returning to our boats, we spoke to a number of people +standing on a bridge, and felt we had abundant reason +to be thankful and encouraged by the result of our first +day's labour.</p> + + +<div class='right'> +<i>January 10th.</i><br /> +</div> + +<p>First sent Tsien and Kuei-hua to distribute some sheet +tracts. After their return we went with them, and in a +space cleared by fire we separated, and addressed two +audiences. On our return to the boats for lunch, we +found people waiting, as usual, and desiring books. Some +were distributed to those who were able to read them; and +then asking them kindly to excuse us while we took our +midday meal, I went into my boat and shut the door.</p> + +<p>Hardly was there time to pour out a cup of tea when a +battering began, and the roof was at once broken in. I +went out at the back, and found four or five men taking +the large lumps of frozen earth turned up in a field close +by—weighing, I should suppose, from seven to fourteen +pounds each—and throwing them at the boat. Remonstrance +was of no avail, and it was not long ere a considerable +part of the upper structure of the boat was broken to +pieces, and a quantity of earth covered the things inside. +Finally, Tsien got a boat that was passing to land him at a +short distance, and by a few tracts drew away the attention +of the men, thus ending the assault.</p> + +<p>We now learned that of those who had done the +mischief only two were natives of the place, the others +being salt smugglers, and that the cause was our not +having satisfied their unreasonable demand for books.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[63]</a></span> +Most providentially no one was injured; and as soon as +quiet was somewhat restored, we all met in Mr. Burns's +boat and joined in thanksgiving that we had been preserved +from personal harm, praying also for the perpetrators +of the mischief, and that it might be over-ruled for good to +us and to those with us. We then took our lunch and +went on shore, and but a few steps from the boats +addressed a large multitude that soon assembled. We +were specially assisted; never were we heard with more +attention, and not one voice was found to sympathise with +the men who had molested us. In the evening, at the +tea-shops, the same spirit was manifested, and some +seemed to hear with joy the glad tidings of salvation +through a crucified and risen <span class="smcap">Saviour</span>.</p> + +<p>As we came home we passed a barber's shop still open, +and I went in, and while getting my head shaved had an +opportunity of speaking to a few people, and afterwards +pasted a couple of sheet tracts on the wall for the benefit +of future customers.</p> + + +<div class='right'> +<i>January 11th.</i><br /> +</div> + +<p>A respectable shop-keeper of the name of Yao, who on +the first or second day of our stay at Wu-chen had received +portions of the New Testament and a tract, came yesterday, +when our boat was broken, to beg for some more books. +At that time we were all in confusion from the damage +done, and from the earth thrown into the boat, and so +invited him to come again in a day or two's time, when +we would gladly supply him. This morning he appeared +and handed in the following note:—</p> + +<p>"On a former day I begged Burns and Taylor, the two +'<i>Rabbis</i>,' to give me good books. It happened at that +time those of our town whose hearts were deceived by +<i>Satan</i>, not knowing the <i>Son of David</i>, went so far as to +dare to '<i>raca</i>' and '<i>moreh</i>' and injure your respected boat.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[64]</a></span> +I thank you for promising afterwards to give the books, +and beg the following: Complete New Testament, 'Discourse +of a Good Man when near his Death,' 'Important +Christian Doctrines,' an Almanack, 'Principles of Christianity,' +'Way to make the World happy,'—of each one +copy. Sung and Tsien, and all teachers I hope are well. +Further compliments are unwritten."</p> + +<p>This note is interesting, as showing that he had been +reading the New Testament attentively, as the italicised +words were all taken from it. His use of "raca" and +"moreh" for reviling, shows their meaning was not lost +upon him.</p> + +<p>After supplying this man, we went out with Tsien and +Kuei-hua to the east of the town, and spoke in the street +for a short time. Upon returning to the boats, I was +visited by two <span class="smcap">Chih-li</span> men, who are in the magistrate's +office here. I was greatly helped in speaking to them of +a crucified <span class="smcap">Saviour</span> in the Mandarin dialect; and though +one of them did not pay much attention, the other did, +and made inquiries that showed the interest he was feeling. +When they had left, I went on shore and spoke to the +people collected there, to whom Kuei-hua had been preaching. +The setting sun afforded a parable, and reminded one +of the words of <span class="smcap">Jesus</span>, "The night cometh, when no man +can work;" and as I spoke of the uncertain duration of +this life, and of our ignorance as to the time of <span class="smcap">Christ's</span> +return, a degree of deep seriousness prevailed that I had +never previously witnessed in China. I engaged in prayer, +and the greatest decorum was observed. I then returned +to my boat with a Buddhist priest who had been in the +audience, and he admitted that Buddhism was a system +of deceit that could give no hope in death.</p> + + +<div class='right'> +<i>January 12th.</i><br /> +</div> + +<p>In the afternoon we addressed the people on shore<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[65]</a></span> +close to our boats, also in one of the streets of the city, +and in a tea-shop, books being distributed on each occasion. +In the evening we went as usual to speak in the +tea-shops, but determined to go to the opposite end of the +town, in order to afford those who lived there a better +opportunity of meeting with us. It was a long straggling +place, nearly two English miles in length. As Mr. Burns +and I were accustomed to talk together in Chinese, this +conclusion was known to those in the boats.</p> + +<p>After we had proceeded a short distance we changed +our minds, and went instead to the usual tea-shop, thinking +that persons might have gone there expecting to meet us. +But this was not the case; and we did not find such serious +hearers as we had done on previous occasions. On this +account Mr. Burns proposed leaving earlier than usual, and +we did so, telling Tsien and Kuei-hua that they might remain +a little longer. Returning to the boats, we gave away +a few books; but, singularly enough, were left to go alone, +no one accompanying us, as is so generally the case. Instead +of being a clear night, as it was when we started, we found +that it had become intensely dark. On our way we met +the boatman, whose manner seemed very strange, and +without giving us any explanation he blew out the candle +of our lantern; we relighted the lantern, telling him not to +put it out again, when to our surprise he deliberately removed +the candle and threw it into the canal. He then +walked down along a low wall jutting out to the river's edge, +and gazed into the water.</p> + +<p>Not knowing what was the matter with him, I ran +forward to hold him, fearful lest he were going to drown +himself; but to my great relief he came quietly back. In +answer to our repeated questions he told us not to speak, +for some bad men were seeking to destroy the boats, +and they had moved away to avoid them. He then<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[66]</a></span> +led us to the place where one of them was lying. Before +long Tsien and Kuei-hua came and got safely on board, +and soon after we were joined by the teacher Sung, and the +boat moved away.</p> + +<p>The cause of all this disturbance was then explained. +A man professing to be the constable had come to the +boats in our absence, with a written demand for ten +dollars and a quantity of opium. He stated that there +were more than fifty country people (salt smugglers) +awaiting our reply in an adjoining tea-shop; and if we +gave them what they wanted, and three hundred cash to +pay for their tea, we might remain in peace; but that if +not, they would come at once and destroy our boats. +Sung told them that we could not comply with their +demand; for, not being engaged in trade, but only in +preaching and book-distribution, we had not an atom of +opium, and that our money was nearly all expended. The +man, however, told him plainly that he did not believe +him, and Sung had no alternative but to seek us out, +desiring the man to await our reply. Not knowing that +we had changed our plans, he sought us in the wrong +direction, and of course in vain.</p> + +<p>In the meanwhile the boatmen had succeeded in +moving off. They were very much alarmed; and having +so recently had proof of what these men would do in open +daylight, felt no desire to experience what they might +attempt by night. Moving away, therefore, they had +separated, so that if one boat should be injured the other +might afford us a refuge. It was after this that we had +providentially met the boatman, and had been safely led on +board. As Sung repassed the place where we were previously +moored, he saw between the trees a dozen or more +men, and heard them inquiring where the boats had gone +to; but no one could tell. Fortunately they sought in vain.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[67]</a></span></p> + +<p>After a while the two boats joined, and rowed together +for some time. It was already late, and to travel by night +in that part of the country was not the way to avoid danger +from evil men; so the question arose as to what should be +done. This we left for the boatmen to decide; they had +moved off of their own accord, and we felt that whatever +we personally might desire we could not constrain others +to remain in a position of danger on our account. We +urged them, however, to do quickly whatever they intended +to do, as the morrow was the <span class="smcap">Lord's Day</span>, when we should +not wish to travel. We also informed them that wherever +we were we must fulfil our mission, and preach the Gospel; +it therefore made but little difference where we might stay, +for even if we passed the night unperceived, we were sure +to be found out on the following morning. The men consequently +concluded that we might as well return to the +place from which we had started; to this we fully agreed, +and they turned back accordingly. But—whether by accident +or no we could not tell—they got into another stream, +and rowed for some time they knew not whither. At last, +as it was very dark, they moored for the night.</p> + +<p>We then called all the boatmen together, with our +native assistants, and read to them the ninety-first Psalm. +It may be imagined how appropriate to our position and +need and how sweetly consoling was this portion of <span class="smcap">God's</span> +Word:—</p> + +<div class='poem2'> +"He that dwelleth in the secret place of the <span class="smcap">Most High</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">Shall abide under the shadow of the <span class="smcap">Almighty</span>.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">I will say of the <span class="smcap">Lord</span>, <i>He</i> is my refuge and my fortress:</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">My <span class="smcap">God</span>; in Him will I trust.</span><br /> +<br /> +"Surely He shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler,<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[68]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">And from the noisome pestilence.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">He shall cover thee with His feathers, and under His wings shalt thou trust:</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">His truth shall be thy shield and buckler.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">Nor for the arrow that flieth by day.</span><br /> +<br /> +"Because he hath set his love upon Me, therefore will I deliver him.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">I will set him on high, because he hath known My Name.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">I will be with him in trouble;—I will deliver him, and honour him.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">With long life will I satisfy him,—and show him My salvation."</span><br /> +</div> + +<p>Committing ourselves in prayer to His care and keeping +Who had covered us with thick darkness and permitted +us to escape from the hand of the violent, we retired for +the night; which—thanks to the kind protection of the +<span class="smcap">Watchman of Israel</span>, who neither slumbers nor forgets +His people—we passed in peace and quietness, and were +enabled, in some measure, to realise the truth of that +precious word, "<i>Thou</i> art my <i>Hiding-place</i>, and my <i>Shield</i>."</p> + + +<div class='right'> +<i>Sunday, January 13th.</i><br /> +</div> + +<p>This morning I was awakened about 4 <span class="smcap">A.M.</span> by violent +pain in the knee-joint. I had bruised it the day before, +and severe inflammation was the result. To my great +surprise I heard the rain pouring down in torrents, the +weather having previously been particularly fine. On looking +out, we found ourselves so near our former stopping-place, +that, had nothing happened to prevent it, we should +not have felt justified in neglecting to go into the town to +preach as usual; but the rain was so heavy all day that +no one could leave the boats. Thus we enjoyed a delightful +day of rest, such as we had not had for some time; and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[69]</a></span> +the weather prevented much inquiry being made for us. +Had the day been fine we should most likely have been +discovered, even if we had not left the boats. As it was, +we were allowed to think in peace, with wonder and +gratitude, of the gracious dealings of our <span class="smcap">God</span>, who had +thus led us apart into "a desert place" to rest awhile.</p> + + +<div class='right'> +<i>Monday, January 14th.</i><br /> +</div> + +<p>A cloudless morning. One of the native assistants +went before daybreak to get some clothes which had been +given out for washing. He came back with the tidings +that, notwithstanding the drenching rain of yesterday, men +had been seeking us in all directions. We had been kept, +however, in peace and safety "under the shadow of the +Almighty."</p> + +<p>The boatmen were now so thoroughly alarmed that +they would stay no longer, and moved off at dawn. I was +confined to my quarters by lameness, and had no alternative +but to go with them. In the afternoon we reached +Ping-wang, on the way to Shanghai.</p> + +<div class='poem'> +"Ill that <span class="smcap">God</span> blesses is our good,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">And unblest good is ill;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">And all is right that seems most wrong,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">If it be His sweet will."</span><br /> +<br /><br /></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus18.jpg" width="500" height="235" alt="East gate and sentry box, Bhamô, Burmah" title="East gate and sentry box, Bhamô, Burmah" /> +</div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[70]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus19.jpg" width="500" height="177" alt="Farmhouse, with buffalo shed attached" title="Farmhouse, with buffalo shed attached" /> +</div> +<h2>CHAPTER XII</h2> + +<h3>CALLED TO SWATOW</h3> + + +<div class='cap'>HAVING to leave the neighbourhood of Black Town +thus unexpectedly was a real disappointment to +us, as we had hoped to spend some time evangelising in +that district. We were to prove, however, that no unforeseen +mischance had happened, but that these circumstances +which seemed so trying were necessary links in the chain +of a divinely ordered providence, guiding to other and +wider spheres.</div> + +<p><span class="smcap">God</span> does not permit persecution to arise without +sufficient reason. . . . He was leading us by a way that we +knew not; but it was none the less His way.</p> + +<div class='poem'> +"O <span class="smcap">Lord</span>, how happy should we be<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">If we would cast our care on Thee,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">If we from self would rest;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">And feel at heart that One above,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">In perfect wisdom, perfect love,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Is working for the best!"</span><br /> +</div> + +<p>When we reached Shanghai, thinking to return inland +in a few days with fresh supplies of books and money, we +met a Christian captain who had been trading at Swatow, +and he put very strongly before us the need of that region, +and the fact that there were British merchants living on<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[71]</a></span> +Double Island, selling opium and engaged in the coolie +trade (practically a slave traffic), while there was no British +missionary to preach the Gospel. The <span class="smcap">Spirit of God</span> +impressed me with the feeling that this was His call, but +for days I felt that I could not obey it. I had never had +such a spiritual father as Mr. Burns; I had never known +such holy, happy fellowship; and I said to myself that it +could not be <span class="smcap">God's</span> will that we should separate.</p> + +<p>In great unrest of soul I went one evening, with Mr. Burns, +to take tea at the house of the Rev. R. Lowrie, of +the American Presbyterian Mission, at the South Gate of +Shanghai. After tea Mrs. Lowrie played over to us "The +Missionary Call."<a name="FNanchor_2_2" id="FNanchor_2_2"></a><a href="#Footnote_2_2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a> I had never heard it before, and it +greatly affected me. My heart was almost broken before +it was finished, and I said to the <span class="smcap">Lord</span>, in the words that +had been sung—</p> + +<div class='poem2'> +<span style="margin-left: 11em;">"And I will go!</span><br /> +I may no longer doubt to give up friends, and idol hopes,<br /> +And every tie that binds my heart. . . .<br /> +Henceforth, then, it matters not, if storm or sunshine be my earthly lot, bitter<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 6em;">or sweet my cup;</span><br /> +I only pray, <span class="smcap">God</span>, make me holy,<br /> +And my spirit nerve for the stern hour of strife."<br /> +</div> + +<p>Upon leaving I asked Mr. Burns to come home with +me to the little house that was still my headquarters in the +native city, and there, with many tears, told him how the +<span class="smcap">Lord</span> had been leading me, and how rebellious I had been +and unwilling to leave him for this new sphere of labour. +He listened with a strange look of surprise, and of pleasure +rather than pain; and answered that he had determined +that very night to tell me that he had heard the <span class="smcap">Lord's</span> +call to Swatow, and that his one regret had been the +prospect of the severance of our happy fellowship. We<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[72]</a></span> +went together; and thus was recommenced missionary work +in that part of China, which in later years has been so +abundantly blessed.</p> + +<p>Long before this time the Rev. R. Lechler, of the Basel +Missionary Society, had widely itinerated in the neighbourhood +of Swatow and the surrounding regions. Driven +about from place to place, he had done work that was not +forgotten, although ultimately he was obliged to retire to +Hong-kong. For more than forty years this earnest-hearted +servant of <span class="smcap">God</span> has continued in "labours more abundant"; +and quite recently he has left Hong-kong, with his devoted +wife, to return again inland, and spend the strength of his +remaining years amongst the people he has so long and +truly loved.</p> + +<p>Captain Bowers, the Christian friend who had been used +of <span class="smcap">God</span> in bringing the needs of Swatow before Mr. Burns +and myself, was overjoyed when he heard of our decision +to devote ourselves to the evangelisation of that busy, +important, and populous mart. Being about to sail himself +on his return journey, he gladly offered us free passages on +board the <i>Geelong</i>, in which we left Shanghai early in the +month of March 1856.</p> + +<p>A favourable journey of six days brought us to Double +Island, where we found ourselves landed in the midst of a +small but very ungodly community of foreigners, engaged in +the opium trade and other commercial enterprises. Unwilling +to be in any way identified with these fellow-countrymen, +we were most desirous of obtaining quarters at once within +the native city, situated on a promontory of the mainland, +five miles farther up, at the mouth of the Han river. +Great difficulty was experienced in this attempt to obtain +a footing amongst the people. Indeed, it seemed as +though we should fail altogether, and we were helplessly +cast upon the <span class="smcap">Lord</span> in prayer. Our <span class="smcap">God</span> soon undertook<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[73]</a></span> +for us. Meeting one day with a Cantonese merchant, a +relative of the highest official in the town, Mr. Burns +addressed him in the Cantonese dialect; this gentleman +was so pleased at being spoken to by a foreigner in his +own tongue that he became our friend, and secured us a +lodging. We had only one little room, however, and not +easily shall I forget the long hot summer months in that +oven-like place, where towards the eaves one could touch +the heated tiles with one's hand. More room or better +accommodation it was impossible to obtain.</p> + +<p>We varied our stay by visits to the surrounding country; +but the difficulties and dangers that encountered us here +were so great and constant, that our former work in the +North began to appear safe and easy in comparison. The +hatred and contempt of the Cantonese was very painful, +"foreign devil," "foreign dog," or "foreign pig" being the +commonest appellations; but all this led us into deeper +fellowship than I had ever known before with Him who +was "despised and rejected of men."</p> + +<p>In our visits to the country we were liable to be seized +at any time and held to ransom; and the people commonly +declared that the whole district was "without emperor, +without ruler, and without law." Certainly, might was +right in those days. On one occasion we were visiting a +small town, and found that the inhabitants had captured +a wealthy man of another clan. A large ransom was +demanded for his release, and on his refusing to pay it +they had smashed his ankle-bones, one by one, with a club, +and thus extorted the promise they desired. There was +nothing but <span class="smcap">God's</span> protection to prevent our being treated +in the same way. The towns were all walled, and one +such place would contain ten or twenty thousand people +of the same clan and surname, who were frequently at war +with the people living in the next town. To be kindly<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[74]</a></span> +received in one place was not uncommonly a source of +danger in the next. In circumstances such as these the +preserving care of our <span class="smcap">God</span> was often manifested.</p> + +<p>After a time the local mandarin became ill, and the +native doctors were unable to relieve him. He had heard +from some who had been under my treatment of the benefit +derived, and was led to seek our help. <span class="smcap">God</span> blessed +the medicines given, and grateful for relief, he advised our +renting a house for a hospital and dispensary. Having his +permission, we were able to secure the entire premises, one +room of which we had previously occupied. I had left my +stock of medicine and surgical instruments under the care +of my friend, the late Mr. Wylie, in Shanghai, and went +back at once to fetch them.</p> + +<p>Mr. Burns came down from a town called Am-po, that +we had visited together several times, to see me off, and +returned again when I had sailed, with two native evangelists +sent up from Hong-kong by the Rev. J. Johnson, of +the American Baptist Missionary Union. The people were +willing to listen to their preaching, and to accept their +books as a gift, but they would not buy them. One night +robbers broke in and carried off everything they had, with +the exception of their stock of literature, which was supposed +to be valueless. Next morning, very early, they +were knocked up by persons wishing to buy books, and the +sales continued; so that by breakfast time they had not +only cash enough to procure food, but to pay also for the +passage of one of the men to Double Island, below Swatow, +with a letter to Mr. Burns's agent to supply him with +money. Purchasers continued coming during that day +and the next, and our friends lacked nothing; but on the +third day they could not sell a single book. Then, however, +when the cash from their sales was just exhausted, +the messenger returned with supplies.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[75]</a></span></p> + +<p>It was early in July, after about four months' residence +in Swatow, that I left for Shanghai, intending to return in +the course of a few weeks, bringing with me my medical +apparatus, for further work in association with the Rev. +William Burns. A new and promising field seemed to be +opening before us, and it was with much hopeful anticipation +that we looked forward to the future of the work. +Marked blessing was indeed in store for the city and +neighbourhood of Swatow; but it was not the purpose of +<span class="smcap">God</span> that either of us should remain to reap the harvest. +Mr. Burns while in the interior was taken up and imprisoned +by the Chinese authorities soon after I left, and was sent to +Canton. And though he returned to Swatow after the war +had broken out, he was called away for other service, which +prevented his subsequent return; while my journey to +Shanghai proved to be the first step in a diverging pathway +leading to other spheres.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 550px;"> +<img src="images/music.jpg" width="550" height="1009" alt="Music: The Missionary Call" title="Music: The Missionary Call" /> +</div> +<div class="center"><small>[<i>Transcriber's Note: You can listen to this music (MIDI file) by clicking</i> here for an <br /><a href="music/missionary.mid">organ version</a> or +here for a <a href="music/missionarypiano.mid">piano version</a>.]</small></div> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[76]</a></span></p> + + + +<div class='poem2'> +2. Why live I here? the vows of <span class="smcap">God</span> are | on me; | and I may not stop<br /> +to play with shadows or pluck earthly flowers, | till I my work<br /> +have done, and | rendered up ac | count.<br /> +<br /> +3. And I will | go! | I may no longer doubt to give up friends, and idol |<br /> +hopes, | and every tie that binds my heart to | thee, my | country.<br /> +<br /> +4. Henceforth, then, it matters not, if storm or sunshine be my | earthly<br /> +lot, | bitter or sweet my | cup; | I only pray: "<span class="smcap">God</span> make me<br /> +holy, and my spirit nerve for the stern | hour of strife!"<br /> +<br /> +5. And when one for whom Satan hath struggled as he hath for | me, | has<br /> +gained at last that blessed | shore, | Oh! how this heart will glow<br /> +with | gratitude and | love.<br /> +</div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[77]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus20.jpg" width="500" height="182" alt="A fishing village on the lake near Yünnan Fu" title="A fishing village on the lake near Yünnan Fu" /> +</div> +<h2>CHAPTER XIII</h2> + +<h3>MAN PROPOSES, GOD DISPOSES</h3> + + +<div class='cap'>IT is interesting to notice the various events which +united, in the providence of <span class="smcap">God</span>, in preventing my +return to Swatow, and ultimately led to my settling in +Ningpo, and making that the centre for the development +of future labours.</div> + +<p>Upon reaching Shanghai, great was my dismay to find +that the premises in which my medicines and instruments +had been stored were burnt down, and that all the +medicines and many of the instruments were entirely +destroyed. To me this appeared a great calamity, and I +fear I was more disposed with faithless Jacob to say, "All +these things are against me," than to recognise that "All +things work together for good." I had not then learned +to think of <span class="smcap">God</span> as the One Great Circumstance "in Whom +we live, and move, and have our being"; and of <i>all</i> lesser, +external circumstances, as necessarily the kindest, wisest, +best, because either ordered or permitted by Him. Hence +my disappointment and trial were very great.</p> + +<p>Medicines were expensive in Shanghai, and my means +were limited. I therefore set out on an inland journey to +Ningpo, hoping to obtain a supply from Dr. William +Parker, a member of the same mission as myself. I took +with me my few remaining possessions, the principal being<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[78]</a></span> +my watch, a few surgical instruments, a concertina, books +for the study of Chinese, which in those days were very +expensive; but left behind in Shanghai a portion of my +money.</p> + +<p>The country through which I had to pass was suffering +much from drought; it was the height of summer; and +the water in the Grand Canal was very low, having been +largely drawn upon for the neighbouring rice fields, as well +as evaporated by the intense heat. I had determined to +make the journey as much of a mission tour as possible, +and set out well supplied with Christian tracts and books. +After fourteen days spent in travelling slowly through the +populous country, preaching and distributing books, etc., +we reached a large town called Shih-mun-wan, and here, +finding that my supply of literature was exhausted, I determined +not to linger over the rest of the journey, but to +reach Ningpo as speedily as possible, <i>viâ</i> the city of +Hai-ning.</p> + + +<div class='right'> +<i>August 4th, 1856.</i><br /> +</div> + +<p>There was no water beyond Shih-mun-wan, so I paid off +my boat, hired coolies to carry my things as far as to +Chang-gan, and ere sunrise we were on the way. I walked +on alone, leaving my servant to follow with the men, who +made frequent stoppages to rest; and on reaching a city +through which we had to pass, I waited for them in a +tea-shop just outside the North Gate. The coolies came +on very slowly, and seemed tired when they arrived. I +soon found that they were both opium-smokers, so that, +although they had only carried a load that one strong man +would think nothing of taking three times the distance, +they really seemed wearied.</p> + +<p>After some rice and tea and an hour's rest—including, +I doubt not, a smoke of the opium pipe—they were a +little refreshed, and I proposed moving on, that we might<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[79]</a></span> +get to Chang-gan before the sun became too powerful. My +servant, however, had a friend in the city, and he desired +to spend the day there, and to go on next morning. But +to this I objected, wishing to reach Hai-ning that night if +possible. . . . We therefore set off, entered the North +Gate, and had passed through about a third of the city, +when the coolies stopped to rest, and said they should be +unable to carry the burden on to Chang-gan. Finally, +they agreed to take it to the South Gate, where they were +to be paid in proportion to the distance they had carried +it; and the servant undertook to call other coolies and +come along with them.</p> + +<p>I walked on before as in the first instance, and the +distance being only about four miles, soon reached Chang-gan, +and waited their arrival, meanwhile engaging coolies +for the rest of the journey to Hai-ning. Having waited a +long time, I began to wonder at the delay; and at length +it became too late to finish the journey to Hai-ning that +night. I felt somewhat annoyed; and but that my feet +were blistered, and the afternoon very hot, I should have +gone back to meet them and urge them on. At last I +concluded that my servant must have gone to his friend's, +and would not appear until evening. But evening came, +and still there was no sign of them.</p> + +<p>Feeling very uneasy, I began diligently to inquire +whether they had been seen. At last a man responded, +"Are you a guest from Shih-mun-wan?" I answered +in the affirmative. "Are you going to Hai-ning?" +"That is my destination." "Then your things have +gone on before you; for I was sitting in a tea-shop +when a coolie came in, took a cup of tea, and set off for +Hai-ning in a great hurry, saying that the bamboo box +and bed he carried, which were just such as you describe +yours to have been, were from Shih-mun-wan, and he<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80">[80]</a></span> +had to take them to Hai-ning to-night, where he was to +be paid at the rate of ten cash a pound." From this I +concluded that my goods were on before me; but it +was impossible to follow them at once, for I was too tired +to walk, and it was already dark.</p> + +<p>Under these circumstances all I could do was to seek +a lodging for the night; and no easy task I found it. +After raising my heart to <span class="smcap">God</span> to ask His aid, I walked +through to the farther end of the town, where I thought +the tidings of a foreigner's being in the place might not +have spread, and looked out for an inn. I soon came to +one, and went in, hoping that I might pass unquestioned, +as it was already dark. Asking the bill of fare, I was told +that cold rice—which proved to be more than "rather +burnt"—and snakes, fried in lamp-oil, were all that could +be had. Not wishing any question to be raised as to my +nationality, I was compelled to order some, and tried to +make a meal, but with little success.</p> + +<p>While thus engaged I said to the landlord, "I suppose +I can arrange to spend the night here?"</p> + +<p>To which he replied in the affirmative; but bringing +out his book, he added—</p> + +<p>"In these unsettled times we are required by the +authorities to keep a record of our lodgers: may I +ask your respected family name?"</p> + +<p>"My unworthy family name is Tai," I responded.</p> + +<p>"And your honourable second name?"</p> + +<p>"My humble name is Ia-koh" (James).</p> + +<p>"What an extraordinary name! I never heard it before. +How do you write it?"</p> + +<p>I told him, and added, "It is a common name in the +district from which I come."</p> + +<p>"And may I ask whence you come and whither you +are going?"<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">[81]</a></span></p> + +<p>"I am journeying from Shanghai to Ningpo, by way of +Hang-chau."</p> + +<p>"What may be your honourable profession?"</p> + +<p>"I heal the sick."</p> + +<p>"Oh! you are a physician," the landlord remarked; +and to my intense relief closed the book. His wife, +however, took up the conversation.</p> + +<p>"You are a physician, are you?" said she; "I am glad +of that, for I have a daughter afflicted with leprosy. If +you will cure her, you shall have your supper and bed for +nothing."</p> + +<p>I was curious enough to inquire what my supper and +bed were to cost, if paid for; and to my amusement found +they were worth less than three-halfpence of our money!</p> + +<p>Being unable to benefit the girl, I declined to prescribe +for her, saying that leprosy was a very intractable disease, +and that I had no medicines with me.</p> + +<p>The mother, however, brought pen and paper, urging, +"You can at least write a prescription, which will do no +harm, if it does no good."</p> + +<p>But this also I declined to do, and requested to be +shown my bed. I was conducted to a very miserable room +on the ground-floor, where, on some boards raised upon +two stools, I passed the night, without bed or pillow, +save my umbrella and shoe, and without any mosquito +netting. Ten or eleven other lodgers were sleeping in the +same room, so I could not take anything off, for fear of +its being stolen; but I was, I found, by no means too +warm as midnight came on.</p> + + +<div class='right'> +<i>August 5th.</i><br /> +</div> + +<p>As may be supposed, I arose but little rested or refreshed, +and felt very far from well. I had to wait a long time ere +breakfast was obtainable, and then there was another delay +before I could get change for the only dollar I had with<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[82]</a></span> +me, in consequence of its being chipped in one or two +places. More than three hundred cash also were deducted +from its price on this account, which was a serious loss to +me in my trying position.</p> + +<p>I then sought throughout the town for tidings of my +servant and coolies, as I thought it possible that they +might have arrived later, or have come on in the morning. +The town is large, long, and straggling, being nearly two +miles from one end to the other, so this occupied some +time. I gained no information, however; and, footsore +and weary, set out for Hai-ning in the full heat of the day. +The journey—about eight miles—took me a long time; +but a halfway village afforded a resting-place and a cup of +tea, both of which I gladly availed myself of. When about +to leave again, a heavy shower of rain came on, and the +delay thus occasioned enabled me to speak a little to the +people about the truths of the Gospel.</p> + +<p>The afternoon was far spent before I approached the +northern suburb of Hai-ning, where I commenced inquiries, +but could hear no tidings of my servant or things. I was +told that outside the East Gate I should be more likely to +hear of them, as it was there the sea-junks called. I therefore +proceeded thither, and sought for them outside the +Little East Gate, but in vain. Very weary, I sat down in a +tea-shop to rest; and while there a number of persons from +one of the mandarin's offices came in, and made inquiries +as to who I was, where I had come from, etc. On learning +the object of my search, one of the men in the tea-shop +said, "A bamboo box and a bed, such as you describe, +were carried past here about half an hour ago. The bearer +seemed to be going towards either the Great East Gate or +the South Gate; you had better go to the hongs there and +inquire." I asked him to accompany me in the search, +and promised to reward him for his trouble, but he would<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">[83]</a></span> +not. Another man offered to go with me, so we set off +together, and both inside and outside the two gates made +diligent inquiries, but all in vain. I then engaged a man +to make a thorough search, promising him a liberal reward +if he should be successful. In the meantime I had some +dinner, and addressed a large concourse of people who had +gathered together.</p> + +<p>When he returned, having met with no success, I said +to him, "I am now quite exhausted: will you help me to +find quarters for the night, and then I will pay you for your +trouble?" He was willing to befriend me, and we set off +in search of lodgings. At the first place or two the people +would not receive me; for though on our first going in +they seemed willing to do so, the presence of a man who +followed us, and who, I found, was engaged in one of the +Government offices, seemed to alarm them, and I was refused. +We now went to a third place, and being no longer +followed by the mandarin's messenger, we were promised +quarters; some tea was brought, and I paid the man who +had accompanied me for his trouble.</p> + +<p>Soon after he was gone some official people came in; +they soon went away, but the result of their visit was that I +was told I could not be entertained there that night. A +young man present blamed them for their heartless behaviour, +and said, "Never mind, come with me; and if +we cannot get better lodgings for you, you shall sleep at +our house." I went with him, but we found the people of +his house unwilling to receive me. Weary and footsore, so +that I could scarcely stand, I had again to seek quarters, +and at length got promise of them; but a little crowd +collecting about the door, they desired me to go to a tea-shop +and wait there till the people had retired, or they +would be unable to accommodate me. There was no help +for it, so I went, accompanied still by the young man, and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[84]</a></span> +waited till past midnight. Then we left for the promised +resting-place; but my conductor would not find it, and he +led me about to another part of the city; and finally, +between one and two o'clock, he left me to pass the rest +of the night as best I could.</p> + +<p>I was opposite a temple, but it was closed; so I lay +down on the stone steps in front of it, and putting my +money under my head for a pillow, should soon have been +asleep in spite of the cold had I not perceived a person +coming stealthily towards me. As he approached I saw he +was one of the beggars so common in China, and had no +doubt his intention was to rob me of my money. I did +not stir, but watched his movements, and looked to my +<span class="smcap">Father</span> not to leave me in this hour of trial. The man +came up, looked at me for some time to assure himself +that I was asleep (it was so dark that he could not see my +eyes fixed on him), and then began to feel about me gently. +I said to him in the quietest tone, but so as to convince +him that I was not, nor had been, sleeping, "What do you +want?" He made no answer, but went away.</p> + +<p>I was very thankful to see him go, and when he was out +of sight put as much of my cash as would not go into my +pocket safely up my sleeve, and made my pillow of a stone +projection of the wall. It was not long ere I began to +doze, but I was aroused by the all but noiseless footsteps +of two persons approaching; for my nervous system was +rendered so sensitive by exhaustion that the slightest noise +startled me. Again I sought protection from Him who +alone was my stay, and lay still as before, till one of them +came up and began to feel under my head for the cash. I +spoke again, and they sat down at my feet. I asked them +what they were doing; they replied that they, like me, +were going to pass the night there. I then requested them +to take the opposite side, as there was plenty of room, and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85">[85]</a></span> +leave this side to me; but they would not move from my +feet, so I raised myself up and set my back against the +wall.</p> + +<p>They said, "You had better lie down and sleep; if you +do not, you will be unable to walk to-morrow. Do not be +afraid; we shall not leave you, and will see that no one +hurts you."</p> + +<p>"Listen to me," I replied. "I do not want your protection; +I need it not; I am not a Chinese; I do not +worship your senseless, helpless idols. I worship <span class="smcap">God</span>; +He is my <span class="smcap">Father</span>; I trust in Him. I know well what +you are, and what your intentions are, and shall keep my +eye on you, and shall not sleep."</p> + +<p>On this, one of them went away, but soon returned +with a third companion. I felt very uneasy, but looked to +<span class="smcap">God</span> for help. Once or twice one of them got up to see +if I was asleep. I only said, "Do not be mistaken; I am +not sleeping." Occasionally my head dropped, and this +was a signal for one of them to rise; but I at once roused +myself and made some remark. As the night slowly +passed on, I felt very weary; and to keep myself awake, +as well as to cheer my mind, I sang several hymns, repeated +aloud some portions of Scripture, and engaged in prayer +in English, to the great annoyance of my companions, who +seemed as if they would have given anything to get me to +desist. After that they troubled me no more; and shortly +before dawn of day they left me, and I got a little sleep.</p> + + +<div class='right'> +<i>August 6th.</i><br /> +</div> + +<p>I was awakened by the young man who had so misled +me on the previous evening. He was very rude, and +insisted on my getting up and paying him for his trouble, +and even went so far as to try to accomplish by force +what he wanted. This roused me; and in an unguarded<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">[86]</a></span> +moment, with very improper feeling, I seized his arm with +such a grasp as he little expected I was capable of, and +dared him to lay a finger upon me again or to annoy me +further. This quite changed his manner; he let me quietly +remain till the guns announced the opening of the gates of +the city, and then he begged me to give him some money +to buy opium with. It is needless to say this was refused. +I gave him the price of two candles, that he said he had +burnt while with me last night and no more. I learned he +was connected with one of the mandarin's offices.</p> + +<p>As soon as possible, I bought some rice gruel and tea +for breakfast, and then once more made a personal search +after my things. Some hours thus spent proving unavailing, +I set out on the return journey, and after a long, weary, +and painful walk reached Chang-gan about noon. Here +also my inquiries failed to give me any trace of the missing +goods; so I had a meal cooked in a tea-shop, got a +thorough wash and bathed my inflamed feet, and after +dinner rested and slept till four in the afternoon.</p> + +<p>Much refreshed, I then set on to return to the city, at +the South Gate of which I had parted with my servant and +coolies two days before. On the way I was led to reflect +on the goodness of <span class="smcap"><ins title="Transcriber's Note: God here not printed in small capitals in original">God</ins></span>, and recollected that I had not +made it a matter of prayer that I might be provided with +lodgings last night. I felt condemned, too, that I should +have been so anxious for my few things, while the many +precious souls around me had caused so little emotion. I +came as a sinner and pleaded the blood of <span class="smcap">Jesus</span>, realising +that I was accepted in Him—pardoned, cleansed, sanctified—and +oh the love of <span class="smcap">Jesus</span>, how great I felt it to be! I +knew something more than I had ever previously known +of what it was to be despised and rejected, and to have +nowhere to lay one's head; and I felt more than ever I had +done before the greatness of that love which induced Him<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">[87]</a></span> +to leave His home in glory and suffer thus for me; nay, to +lay down His very life upon the Cross. I thought of Him +as "despised and rejected of men, a Man of sorrows, and +acquainted with grief"; I thought of Him at Jacob's well, +weary, hungry, and thirsty, yet finding it His meat and +drink to do His Father's will; and contrasted this with +my littleness of love. I looked to Him for pardon for the +past, and for grace and strength to do His will in the future, +to tread more closely in His footsteps, and be more than +ever wholly His. I prayed for myself, for friends in +England, and for my brethren in the work. Sweet tears of +mingled joy and sorrow flowed freely, the road was almost +forgotten, and before I was aware of it I had reached my +destination. Outside the South Gate I took a cup of tea, +asked about my lost luggage, and spoke of the love of +<span class="smcap">Jesus</span>. Then I entered the city, and after many vain inquiries +left it by the North Gate.</p> + +<p>I felt so much refreshed both in mind and body by the +communion I had on my walk to the city that I thought +myself able to finish the remaining six miles back to Shih-mun-wan +that evening. First I went into another tea-shop +to buy some native cakes, and was making a meal of them +when who should come in but one of the identical coolies +who had carried my things the first stage. From him I +learned that after I left them they had taken my luggage +to the South Gate; there my servant went away, saying on +his return that I had gone on, that he did not intend to +start at once, but would spend the day with his friend, and +then rejoin me; they carried the things to this friend's +house, and left them there. I got him to go with me to the +house, and there learned that the man had spent the day +and night with them, and next morning had called other +coolies, and set off for Hang-chau. This was all I could +gather; so, unable to do anything but proceed on my<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88">[88]</a></span> +return journey to Shanghai with all expedition, I left the +city again. It was now too late to go on to Shih-mun-wan. +I looked to my <span class="smcap">Father</span> as able to supply all my need, and +received another token of His ceaseless love and care, +being invited to sleep on a hong-boat, now dry in the bed +of the river. The night was again very cold and the +mosquitoes troublesome. Still, I got a little rest, and at +sunrise was up and continued my journey.</p> + + +<div class='right'> +<i>August 7th.</i><br /> +</div> + +<p>I felt very ill at first, and had a sore throat, but reflected +on the wonderful goodness of <span class="smcap">God</span> in enabling me +to bear the heat by day and the cold by night so long. I +felt also that quite a load was now taken off my mind. I +had committed myself and my affairs to the <span class="smcap">Lord</span>, and +knew that if it was for my good and for His glory my +things would be restored; if not, all would be for the best. +I hoped that the most trying part of my journey was now +drawing to a close, and this helped me, weary and footsore, +on the way. When I got to Shih-mun-wan and had breakfasted, +I found I had still eight hundred and ten cash in +hand; and I knew that the hong-boat fare to Kia-hing Fu +was one hundred and twenty cash, and thence to Shanghai +three hundred and sixty, leaving me just three hundred +and thirty cash—or twelve pence and a fraction—for three +or four days provisions. I went at once to the boat office, +but to my dismay found that from the dry state of the +river goods had not come down, so that no boat would +leave to-day and perhaps none to-morrow. I inquired if +there were no letter-boats for Kia-hing Fu, and was told that +they had already left. The only remaining resource was to +ascertain if any private boats were going in which I could +get a passage. My search, however, was in vain; and I +could get no boat to undertake to go all the way to +Shanghai, or my difficulty would have been at an end.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">[89]</a></span></p> + +<p>Just at this juncture I saw before me, at a turn in the +canal, a letter-boat going in the direction of Kia-hing Fu +This, I concluded, must be one of the Kia-hing boats that +had been unexpectedly detained, and I set off after it as +fast as hope and the necessities of the case would carry me. +For the time being weariness and sore feet were alike +forgotten. After a chase of about a mile I overtook it.</p> + +<p>"Are you going to Kia-hing Fu?" I called out.</p> + +<p>"No," was the only answer.</p> + +<p>"Are you going in that direction?"</p> + +<p>"No."</p> + +<p>"Will you give me a passage as far as you do go that +way?"</p> + +<p>Still "No," and nothing more.</p> + +<p>Completely dispirited and exhausted, I sank down on +the grass and fainted away.</p> + +<p>As consciousness returned some voices reached my ear, +and I found they were talking about me. One said, "He +speaks pure Shanghai dialect," and from their own speech +I knew them to be Shanghai people. Raising myself, I +saw that they were on a large hong-boat on the other side +of the canal, and after a few words they sent their small +boat to fetch me, and I went on board the junk. They +were very kind, and gave me some tea; and when I was +refreshed and able to partake of it, some food also. I then +took my shoes and stockings off to ease my feet, and the +boatman kindly provided me with hot water to bathe them. +When they heard my story, and saw the blisters on my feet, +they evidently pitied me, and hailed every boat that passed +to see if it was going my way. Not finding one, by and by, +after a few hours' sleep, I went ashore with the captain, +intending to preach in the temple of Kwan-ti.</p> + +<p>Before leaving the junk I told the captain and those +on board that I was now unable to help myself; that I<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90">[90]</a></span> +had not strength to walk to Kia-hing Fu, and having been +disappointed in getting a passage to-day, I should no longer +have sufficient means to take me there by letter-boat, which +was an expensive mode of travelling; that I knew not how +the <span class="smcap">God</span> whom I served would help me, but that I had no +doubt He would do so; and that my business now was to +serve Him where I was. I also told them that the help +which I knew would come ought to be an evidence to them +of the truth of the religion which I and the other missionaries +at Shanghai preached.</p> + +<p>On our way to the town, while engaged in conversation +with the captain, we saw a letter-boat coming up. The +captain drew my attention to it; but I reminded him that +I had no longer the means of paying my passage by it. +He hailed it, nevertheless, and found that it was going to +a place about nine English miles from Shanghai, whence +one of the boatmen would carry the mails overland to the +city. He then said, "This gentleman is a foreigner from +Shanghai, who has been robbed, and has no longer the +means of returning. If you will take him with you as far +as you go, and then engage a sedan chair to carry him the +rest of the way, he will pay you in Shanghai. You see my +boat is lying aground yonder for want of water, and cannot +get away. Now, I will stand surety; and if this gentleman +does not pay when you get to Shanghai, I will do so on +your return." This unsolicited kindness on the part of a +Chinaman, a perfect stranger, will appear the more remarkable +to any one acquainted with the character of the Chinese, +who are generally most reluctant to risk their money. +Those on the letter-boat agreeing to the terms, I was taken +on board as a passenger. Oh, how thankful I felt for this +providential interposition, and to be once more on my way +to Shanghai!</p> + +<p>Letter-boats such as the one on which I was now<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">[91]</a></span> +travelling are of a long narrow build, and very limited as +to their inside accommodation. One has to lie down all +the time they are in motion, as a slight movement would +easily upset them. This was no irksome condition to me, +however; on the contrary, I was only too glad to be quiet. +They are the quickest boats I have seen in China. Each +one is worked by two men, who relieve one another continuously +night and day. They row with their feet, and +paddle with their hands; or if the wind is quite favourable, +row with their feet, and with one hand manage a small +sail, while steering with the other.</p> + +<p>After a pleasant and speedy journey, I reached Shanghai +in safety on August 9th, through the help of Him who has +said, "I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee;" "Lo, I +am with you alway, even unto the end of the world."</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/illus21.jpg" width="400" height="307" alt="Teng-yueh, the westernmost walled city in China" title="Teng-yueh, the westernmost walled city in China" /> +</div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">[92]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus22.jpg" width="500" height="176" alt="A small temple near Wun-chau" title="A small temple near Wun-chau" /> +</div> +<h2>CHAPTER XIV</h2> + +<h3>PROVIDENTIAL GUIDANCE</h3> + + +<div class='cap'>IT now seemed very clear that the lost property—including +everything I possessed in China, with the +exception of a small sum of money providentially left in +Shanghai—had been deliberately stolen by my servant, +who had gone off with it to Hang-chau. The first question, +of course, was how best to act for the good of the man who +had been the cause of so much trouble. It would not +have been difficult to take steps that would have led to his +punishment; though the likelihood of any reparation being +made for the loss sustained was very small. But the +consideration which weighed most heavily was that the +thief was a man for whose salvation I had laboured and +prayed; and I felt that to prosecute him would not be to +emphasise the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount, in +which we had read together, "Resist not evil," and other +similar precepts. Finally, concluding that his soul was of +more value than the £40 worth of things I had lost, I +wrote and told him this, urging upon him his need of +repentance and faith in the <span class="smcap">Lord Jesus Christ</span>. The +course I took commended itself to my Christian friends in +England, one of whom was afterwards led to send me a +cheque for £40—the first of many subsequently received +from the same kind helper.</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">[93]</a></span>Having obtained the little money left in Shanghai, +I again set out for Ningpo, to seek assistance from Dr. Parker +in replacing the medicines I had previously lost by +fire. This being satisfactorily accomplished, I returned +once more to Shanghai, <i>en route</i> for Swatow, hoping soon +to rejoin my much-loved friend, Mr. Burns, in the work in +that important centre. <span class="smcap">God</span> had willed it otherwise, however; +and the delay caused by the robbery was just sufficient to +prevent me from starting for the South as I had intended.</p> + +<p>Over the political horizon storm-clouds had long been +gathering, precursors of coming war; and early in October +of this year (1856) the affair of the Lorcha <i>Arrow</i> at +Canton led to the definite commencement of hostilities. +Very soon China was deeply involved in a second prolonged +struggle with foreign powers; and missionary operations, +in the South at any rate, had to be largely suspended. +Tidings of these events, together with letters from Mr. +Burns, arrived just in time to meet me in Shanghai as +I was leaving for Swatow; and thus hindered, I could not +but realise the hand of <span class="smcap">God</span> in closing the door I had so +much desired to enter.</p> + +<p>While in Ningpo, I had made the acquaintance of Mr. +John Jones, who, with Dr. Parker, represented the Chinese +Evangelisation Society in that city. Hindered from returning +to Swatow, I now decided to join these brethren in +the Ningpo work, and set out at once upon the journey. +On the afternoon of the second day, when already about +thirty miles distant from Shanghai, Mr. Jones and I drew +near the large and important city of Sung-kiang, and I +spoke of going ashore to preach the Gospel to the thronging +multitudes that lined the banks and crowded the +approaches to the city gates.</p> + +<p>Among the passengers on board the boat was one +intelligent man, who in the course of his travels had been<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">[94]</a></span> +a good deal abroad, and had even visited England, where +he went by the name of Peter. As might be expected, +he had heard something of the Gospel, but had never +experienced its saving power. On the previous evening +I had drawn him into earnest converse about his soul's +salvation. The man listened with attention, and was +even moved to tears, but still no definite result was +apparent. I was pleased, therefore, when he asked to be +allowed to accompany me, and to hear me preach.</p> + +<p>I went into the cabin of the boat to prepare tracts and +books for distribution on landing with my Chinese friend, +when suddenly I was startled by a splash and a cry from +without. I sprang on deck, and took in the situation +at a glance. Peter was gone! The other men were all +there, on board, looking helplessly at the spot where he +had disappeared, but making no effort to save him. A +strong wind was carrying the junk rapidly forward in spite +of a steady current in the opposite direction, and the low-lying, +shrubless shore afforded no landmark to indicate +how far we had left the drowning man behind.</p> + +<p>I instantly let down the sail and leapt overboard in the +hope of finding him. Unsuccessful, I looked around in +agonising suspense, and saw close to me a fishing-boat +with a peculiar drag-net furnished with hooks, which I +knew would bring him up.</p> + +<p>"Come!" I cried, as hope revived in my heart. +"Come and drag over this spot directly; a man is +drowning just here!"</p> + +<p>"Veh bin" (It is not convenient), was the unfeeling +answer.</p> + +<p>"Don't talk of <i>convenience!</i>" cried I in an agony; "a +man is drowning, I tell you!"</p> + +<p>"We are busy fishing," they responded, "and cannot +come."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_95" id="Page_95">[95]</a></span></p> + +<p>"Never mind your fishing," I said, "I will give you +more money than many a day's fishing will bring; only +come—come at once!"</p> + +<p>"How much money will you give us?"</p> + +<p>"We cannot stay to discuss that now! Come, or it +will be too late. I will give you five dollars" (then worth +about thirty shillings in English money).</p> + +<p>"We won't do it for that," replied the men. "Give us +twenty dollars, and we will drag."</p> + +<p>"I do not possess so much: do come quickly, and I +will give you all I have!"</p> + +<p>"How much may that be?"</p> + +<p>“I don't know exactly, about fourteen dollars."</p> + +<p>At last, but even then slowly enough, the boat was +paddled over, and the net let down. Less than a minute +sufficed to bring up the body of the missing man. The +fishermen were clamorous and indignant because their exorbitant +demand was delayed while efforts at resuscitation +were being made. But all was in vain—life was extinct.</p> + +<p>To myself this incident was profoundly sad and full of +significance, suggesting a far more mournful reality. Were +not those fishermen actually guilty of this poor Chinaman's +death, in that they had the means of saving him at hand, +if they would but have used them? Assuredly they were +guilty. And yet, let us pause ere we pronounce judgment +against them, lest a greater than Nathan answer, "<i>Thou art +the man</i>." Is it so hard-hearted, so wicked a thing to +neglect to save the body? Of how much sorer punishment, +then, is he worthy who leaves the soul to perish, +and Cain-like says, "Am I my brother's keeper?" The +<span class="smcap">Lord Jesus</span> commands, commands <i>me</i>, commands <i>you</i>, +my brother, and <i>you</i>, my sister. "Go," says He, "go ye +into <i>all</i> the world, and preach the Gospel to <i>every</i> creature." +Shall we say to <i>Him</i>, "No, it is not convenient"? shall we<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_96" id="Page_96">[96]</a></span> +tell <i>Him</i> that we are busy fishing and cannot go? that we +have bought a piece of ground and cannot go? that we +have purchased five yoke of oxen, or have married, or are +engaged in other and more interesting pursuits, and cannot +go? Ere long "we must all appear before the judgment +seat of <span class="smcap">Christ</span>; that every one may receive the things done +in his body." Let us remember, let us pray for, let us +labour for the unevangelised Chinese; <i>or we shall sin +against our own souls</i>. Let us consider <i>Who</i> it is that +has said, "If thou <i>forbear</i> to deliver them that are drawn +unto death, and those that are ready to be slain; if thou +sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not He that pondereth +the heart consider it? and He that keepeth <i>thy</i> soul, +doth not he know it? and shall not He render to every +man according to his works?"</p> + +<div class='poem'> +Through midnight gloom from Macedon,<br /> +The cry of myriads as of one;<br /> +The voiceful silence of despair<br /> +Is eloquent in awful prayer:<br /> +The soul's exceeding bitter cry,<br /> +"Come o'er and help us, or we die."<br /> +<br /> +How mournfully it echoes on,<br /> +For half the earth is Macedon;<br /> +These brethren to their brethren call,<br /> +And by the Love which loves them all,<br /> +And by the whole world's Life they cry,<br /> +"O ye that live, behold we die!"<br /> +<br /> +By other sounds the world is won<br /> +Than that which wails from Macedon;<br /> +The roar of gain is round it rolled,<br /> +Or men unto themselves are sold,<br /> +And cannot list the alien cry,<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_97" id="Page_97">[97]</a></span>"O hear and help us, lest we die!"<br /> +<br /> +Yet with that cry from Macedon<br /> +The very car of <span class="smcap">Christ</span> rolls on:<br /> +"<i>I come; who would abide My day,</i><br /> +<i>In yonder wilds prepare My way;</i><br /> +<i>My voice is crying in their cry,</i><br /> +<i>Help ye the dying, lest ye die</i>."<br /> +<br /> +<span class="smcap">Jesu</span>, for men of Man the <span class="smcap">Son</span>,<br /> +Yea, <span class="smcap">Thine</span> the cry from Macedon;<br /> +Oh, by the kingdom and the power<br /> +And glory of Thine advent hour,<br /> +Wake heart and will to hear their cry:<br /> +Help us to help them, lest we die.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<a href="images/illus23-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus23.jpg" width="500" height="379" alt="Group of Christians at Lan-k'i, Cheh-kiang" title="Group of Christians at Lan-k'i, Cheh-kiang" /> +</a></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_98" id="Page_98">[98]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus24.jpg" width="500" height="195" alt="A boat on the Red River, Tonquin" title="A boat on the Red River, Tonquin" /> +</div> +<h2>CHAPTER XV</h2> + +<h3>SETTLEMENT IN NINGPO</h3> + + +<div class='cap'>THE autumn of 1856 was well advanced before I +reached Ningpo, one of the most ancient and +influential cities on the coast of China. Opened to the +residence of foreigners in 1842 by the treaty of Nan-king, +it had long been the scene of missionary labours. +Within its thronging thoroughfares the busy tide of life +runs high. Four hundred thousand human beings dwell +within or around the five miles circuit of its ancient +wall, every one a soul that <span class="smcap">Jesus</span> loves, for whom He +died.</div> + +<p>As winter drew on I rented a native house in Wu-gyiao-deo, +or Lake Head Street. It was not then a very +comfortable residence. I have a very distinct remembrance +of tracing my initials on the snow which during the +night had collected upon my coverlet in the large barn-like +upper room, now subdivided into four or five smaller ones, +each of which is comfortably ceiled. The tiling of an +unceiled Chinese house may keep off the rain—if it happens +to be sound—but it does not afford so good a protection +against snow, which will beat up through crannies and +crevices, and find its way within. But however unfinished +may have been its fittings, the little house was well adapted +for work amongst the people; and there I thankfully settled<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_99" id="Page_99">[99]</a></span> +down, finding ample scope for service,—morning, noon, +and night.</p> + +<p>During the latter part of this year my mind was greatly +exercised about continued connection with my Society, it +being frequently in debt. Personally I had always avoided +debt, and kept within my salary, though at times only by +very careful economy. Now there was no difficulty in +doing this, for my income was larger, and the country being +in a more peaceful state, things were not so dear. But the +Society itself was in debt. The quarterly bills which I and +others were instructed to draw were often met by borrowed +money, and a correspondence commenced which terminated +in the following year by my resigning from conscientious +motives.</p> + +<p>To me it seemed that the teaching of <span class="smcap">God's</span> Word was +unmistakably clear: "Owe no man any thing." To borrow +money implied, to my mind, a contradiction of Scripture—a +confession that <span class="smcap">God</span> had withheld some good thing, and a +determination to get for ourselves what He had not given. +Could that which was wrong for one Christian to do be +right for an association of Christians? Or could any +amount of precedents make a wrong course justifiable? If +the Word taught me anything, it taught me to have no +connection with debt. I could not think that <span class="smcap">God</span> was +poor, that He was short of resources, or unwilling to supply +any want of whatever work was really His. It seemed to +me that if there were lack of funds to carry on work, then +to that degree, in that special development, or at that time, +it could not be the work of <span class="smcap">God</span>. To satisfy my conscience +I was therefore compelled to resign connection with the +Society which had hitherto supplied my salary.</p> + +<p>It was a great satisfaction to me that my friend and +colleague, Mr. Jones, also of the Chinese Evangelisation +Society, was led to take the same step; and we were both<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_100" id="Page_100">[100]</a></span> +profoundly thankful that the separation took place without +the least breach of friendly feeling on either side. Indeed, +we had the joy of knowing that the step we took commended +itself to several members of the Committee, +although as a whole the Society could not come to our +position. Depending upon <span class="smcap">God</span> alone for supplies, we +were enabled to continue a measure of connection with +our former supporters, sending home journals, etc., for +publication as before, so long as the Society continued to +exist.</p> + +<p>The step we had taken was not a little trying to faith. +I was not at all sure what <span class="smcap">God</span> would have me do, or +whether He would so meet my need as to enable me to +continue working as before. I had no friends whatever +from whom I expected supplies. I did not know what +means the <span class="smcap">Lord</span> might use; but I was willing to give up +all my time to the service of evangelisation among the +heathen, if by any means He would supply the smallest +amount on which I could live; and if He were not pleased +to do this, I was prepared to undertake whatever work +might be necessary to supply myself, giving all the time +that could be spared from such a calling to more distinctly +missionary efforts. But <span class="smcap">God</span> blessed and prospered me; +and how glad and thankful I felt when the separation was +really effected! I could look right up into my <span class="smcap">Father's</span> +face with a satisfied heart, ready, by His grace, to do the +next thing as He might teach me, and feeling very sure of +His loving care.</p> + +<p>And how blessedly He did lead me on and provide for +me I can never, never tell. It was like a continuation of +some of my earlier home experiences. My faith was not +untried; it often, often failed, and I was so sorry and +ashamed of the failure to trust such a <span class="smcap">Father</span>. But oh! +I was learning to know Him. I would not even then have<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_101" id="Page_101">[101]</a></span> +missed the trial. He became so near, so real, so intimate. +The occasional difficulty about funds never came from an +insufficient supply for personal needs, but in consequence +of ministering to the wants of scores of the hungry and +dying ones around us. And trials far more searching in +other ways quite eclipsed these difficulties; and being +deeper, brought forth in consequence richer fruits. How +glad one is now, not only to know, with dear Miss Havergal, +that——</p> + +<div class='poem'> +"They who trust Him wholly<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Find Him wholly true,"</span><br /> +</div> + +<div class='unindent'>but also that when we fail to trust fully He still remains +unchangingly faithful. He <i>is</i> wholly true whether +we trust or not. "If we believe not, He abideth faithful; +He cannot deny Himself." But oh, how we dishonour +our <span class="smcap">Lord</span> whenever we fail to trust Him, and what peace, +blessing, and triumph we lose in thus sinning against the +Faithful One! May we never again presume in anything +to doubt Him!</div> + +<p>The year 1857 was a troublous time, and closed with the +notorious bombardment of Canton by the British, and the +commencement of our second Chinese war. Rumours of +trouble were everywhere rife, and in many places the +missionaries passed through not a little danger. In Ningpo +this was especially the case, and the preserving care of <span class="smcap">God</span> +in answer to prayer was consequently most marked. When +the awful news of the bombardment of Canton reached the +Cantonese in Ningpo their wrath and indignation knew no +bounds, and they immediately set to work to plot the +destruction of all the foreigners resident in the city and +neighbourhood. It was well known that many of the +foreigners were in the habit of meeting for worship every +Sunday evening at one of the missionary houses, and the +plan was to surround the place on a given occasion and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_102" id="Page_102">[102]</a></span> +make short work of all present, cutting off afterwards any +who might not be present.</p> + +<p>The sanction of the Tao-t'ai, or chief civil magistrate of +the city, was easily obtained; and nothing remained to +hinder the execution of the plot, of which the foreigners +were of course entirely in ignorance. (A similar plot +against the Portuguese a few months later was carried out, +and between fifty and sixty were massacred in open daylight.) +It so happened, however, that one of those acquainted with +the conspiracy had a friend engaged in the service of the +missionaries; and anxious for his safety, he was led to warn +him of the coming danger, and urge his leaving foreign +employ. The servant made the matter known to his +master, and thus the little community became aware of +their peril. Realising the gravity of the situation, they +determined to meet together at the house of one of their +number to seek the protection of the Most High, and to +hide under the shadow of His wings. Nor did they thus +meet in vain.</p> + +<p>At the very time we were praying the <span class="smcap">Lord</span> was working. +He led an inferior mandarin, the Superintendent of Customs, +to call upon the Tao-t'ai, and remonstrate with him upon +the folly of permitting such an attempt, which he assured +him would rouse the foreigners in other places to come +with armed forces to avenge the death of their countrymen +and raze the city to the ground. The Tao-t'ai replied that, +when the foreigners came for that purpose, he should deny +all knowledge of or complicity in the plot, and so direct +their vengeance against the Cantonese, who would in their +turn be destroyed; "and thus," said he, "we shall get rid +of both Cantonese and foreigners by one stroke of policy." +The Superintendent of Customs assured him that all such +attempts at evasion would be useless; and, finally, the +Tao-t'ai sent to the Cantonese, withdrawing his permission,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_103" id="Page_103">[103]</a></span> +and prohibiting the attack. This took place at the very +time when we were asking protection of the <span class="smcap">Lord</span>, though +we did not become acquainted with the facts until some +weeks later. Thus again we were led to prove that—</p> + +<div class='poem'> +"Sufficient is His arm alone,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">And our defence is sure."</span><br /> +</div> + +<p>I cannot attempt to give any historical record of the +events of this period, but ere 1857 terminated Mr. Jones +and I were cheered by tokens of blessing. It is interesting +to recall the circumstances connected with the first profession +of faith in Christ, which encouraged us.</p> + +<p>On one occasion I was preaching the glad tidings of +salvation through the finished work of <span class="smcap">Christ</span>, when a +middle-aged man stood up, and testified before his +assembled countrymen to his faith in the power of the +Gospel.</p> + +<p>"I have long sought for the Truth," said he earnestly, +"as my fathers did before me; but I have never found it. +I have travelled far and near, but without obtaining it. I +have found no rest in Confucianism, Buddhism, or Taoism; +but I do find rest in what I have heard here to-night. +Henceforth I am a believer in <span class="smcap">Jesus</span>."</p> + +<p>This man was one of the leading officers of a sect of +reformed Buddhists in Ningpo. A short time after his +confession of faith in the <span class="smcap">Saviour</span> there was a meeting of +the sect over which he had formerly presided. I accompanied +him to that meeting, and there, to his former co-religionists, +he testified of the peace he had obtained in +believing. Soon after, one of his former companions was +converted and baptized. Both now sleep in <span class="smcap">Jesus</span>. The +first of these two long continued to preach to his countrymen +the glad tidings of great joy. A few nights after his +conversion he asked how long this Gospel had been known<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_104" id="Page_104">[104]</a></span> +in England. He was told that we had known it for some +hundreds of years.</p> + +<p>"What!" said he, amazed; "is it possible that for +hundreds of years you have had the knowledge of these +glad tidings in your possession, and yet have only now +come to preach it to us? My father sought after the +Truth for more than twenty years, and died without finding +it. Oh, why did you not come sooner?"</p> + +<p>A whole generation has passed away since that mournful +inquiry was made; but how many, alas! might repeat +the same question to-day? More than two hundred +millions in the meanwhile have been swept into eternity, +without an offer of salvation. How long shall this continue, +and the <span class="smcap">Master's</span> words, "To every creature," remain +unheeded?</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<a href="images/illus25-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus25.jpg" width="500" height="396" alt="Students' quarters, Gan-k'ing Training Home" title="Students' quarters, Gan-k'ing Training Home" /> +</a></div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_105" id="Page_105">[105]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus26.jpg" width="500" height="205" alt="A Mandarin's sedan chair " title="A Mandarin's sedan chair " /> +</div> +<h2>CHAPTER XVI</h2> + +<h3>TIMELY SUPPLIES</h3> + + +<div class='cap'>NOT infrequently our <span class="smcap">God</span> brings His people into +difficulties on purpose that they may come to +know Him as they could not otherwise do. Then He +reveals Himself as "a very present help in trouble," and +makes the heart glad indeed at each fresh revelation of a +<span class="smcap">Father's</span> faithfulness. We who only see so small a part +of the sweet issues of trial often feel that we would not +for anything have missed them; how much more shall we +bless and magnify His Name when all the hidden things +are brought to light!</div> + +<p>In the autumn of 1857, just one year after I came to +settle in Ningpo, a little incident occurred that did much +to strengthen our faith in the loving-kindness and ever-watchful +care of <span class="smcap">God</span>.</p> + +<p>A brother in the <span class="smcap">Lord</span>, the Rev. John Quarterman, of +the American Presbyterian Mission North, was taken with +virulent small-pox, and it was my mournful privilege to +nurse him through his suffering illness to its fatal close. +When all was over, it became necessary to lay aside the +garments worn while nursing, for fear of conveying the infection +to others. Not having sufficient money in hand to +purchase what was needful in order to make this change, +prayer was the only resource. The <span class="smcap">Lord</span> answered it by<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_106" id="Page_106">[106]</a></span> +the unexpected arrival of a long-lost box of clothing from +Swatow, that had remained in the care of the Rev. William Burns +when I left him for Shanghai, in the early summer +of the previous year. The arrival of the things just at +this juncture was as appropriate as it was remarkable, +and brought a sweet sense of the <span class="smcap">Father's</span> own providing.</p> + +<p>About two months later the following was penned:——</p> + +<div class='right'> +<i>November 18th, 1857.</i><br /> +</div> + +<p>Many seem to think that I am very poor. This +certainly is true enough in one sense, but I thank <span class="smcap">God</span> +it is "as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, yet +possessing all things." And my <span class="smcap">God</span> shall supply <i>all</i> my +need; to Him be all the glory. I would not, if I could, +be otherwise than I am—entirely dependent myself upon +the <span class="smcap">Lord</span>, and used as a channel of help to others.</p> + +<p>On Saturday, the 4th inst., our regular home mail +arrived. That morning we supplied, as usual, a breakfast +to the destitute poor, who came to the number of seventy. +Sometimes they do not reach forty, at others again exceeding +eighty. They come to us every day, <span class="smcap">Lord's</span> Day +excepted, for then we cannot manage to attend to them +and get through all our other duties too. Well, on that +Saturday morning we paid all expenses, and provided +ourselves for the morrow, after which we had not a single +dollar left between us. How the <span class="smcap">Lord</span> was going to +provide for Monday we knew not; but over our mantelpiece +hung two scrolls in the Chinese character—<i>Ebenezer</i>, +"Hitherto hath the <span class="smcap">Lord</span> helped us"; and <i>Jehovah-Jireh</i>, +"The <span class="smcap">Lord</span> will provide"—and He kept us from doubting +for a moment. That very day the mail came in, <i>a week +sooner than was expected</i>, and Mr. Jones received a bill for +two hundred and fourteen dollars. We thanked <span class="smcap">God</span> and +took courage. The bill was taken to a merchant, and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_107" id="Page_107">[107]</a></span> +although there is usually a delay of several days in getting +the change, this time he said, "Send down on Monday." +We sent, and though he had not been able to buy all the +dollars, he let us have seventy on account; so all was well. +Oh, it is sweet to live thus directly dependent upon the +<span class="smcap">Lord</span>, who never fails us!</p> + +<p>On Monday the poor had their breakfast as usual, for we +had not told them not to come, being assured that it was +the <span class="smcap">Lord's</span> work, and that the <span class="smcap">Lord</span> would provide. We +could not help our eyes filling with tears of gratitude when +we saw not only our own needs supplied, but the widow +and the orphan, the blind and the lame, the friendless and +the destitute, together provided for by the bounty of Him +who feeds the ravens. "O magnify the <span class="smcap">Lord</span> with me, +and let us exalt His Name together. . . . Taste and see +that the <span class="smcap">Lord</span> is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in +Him. O fear the <span class="smcap">Lord</span>, ye His saints: for there is no +want to them that fear Him. The young lions do +lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the <span class="smcap">Lord</span> +shall not want any good thing"—and if not good, why +want it?</p> + +<p>But even two hundred dollars cannot last for ever, and +by New Year's Day supplies were again getting low. At +last, on January 6th, 1858, only one solitary cash remained—the +twentieth part of a penny—in the joint possession +of Mr. Jones and myself; but though tried we looked to +<span class="smcap">God</span> once again to manifest His gracious care. Enough +provision was found in the house to supply a meagre +breakfast; after which, having neither food for the rest of +the day, nor money to buy any, we could only betake +ourselves to Him who was able to supply all our need +with the petition, "Give us this day our daily bread."</p> + +<p>After prayer and deliberation we thought that perhaps +we ought to dispose of something we possessed in order to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_108" id="Page_108">[108]</a></span> +meet our immediate requirements. But on looking round +we saw nothing that we could well spare, and little that the +Chinese would purchase for ready money. Credit to any +extent we might have had, could we conscientiously have +availed ourselves of it, but this we felt to be unscriptural +in itself, as well as inconsistent with the position we were +in. We had, indeed, one article—an iron stove—which +we knew the Chinese would readily purchase; but we +much regretted the necessity of parting with it. At length, +however, we set out to the founder's, and after a walk of +some distance came to the river, which we had intended to +cross by a floating bridge of boats; but here the <span class="smcap">Lord</span> +shut up our path. The bridge had been carried away +during the preceding night, and the river was only passable +by means of a ferry, the fare for which was two cash +each person. As we only possessed one cash, our course +clearly was to return and await <span class="smcap">God's</span> own interposition +on our behalf.</p> + +<p>Upon reaching home, we found that Mrs. Jones had gone +with the children to dine at a friend's house, in accordance +with an invitation accepted some days previously. Mr. +Jones, though himself included in the invitation, refused +now to go and leave me to fast alone. So we set to work +and carefully searched the cupboards; and though there +was nothing to eat, we found a small packet of cocoa, +which, with a little hot water, somewhat revived us. After +this we again cried to the <span class="smcap">Lord</span> in our trouble, and the +<span class="smcap">Lord</span> heard and saved us out of all our distresses. For +while we were still upon our knees a letter arrived from +England containing a remittance.</p> + +<p>This timely supply not only met the immediate and +urgent need of the day; for in the assured confidence that +<span class="smcap">God</span>, whose we were and whom we served, would not put +to shame those whose whole and only trust was in Himself<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_109" id="Page_109">[109]</a></span>. +<ins title="Transcriber's Note: original reads 'my'">My</ins> marriage had been previously arranged to take place +just fourteen days after this date. And this expectation +was not disappointed; for "the mountains shall depart, +and the hills be removed, but My kindness shall not depart +from thee, neither shall the covenant of My peace be +removed." And although during subsequent years our +faith was often exercised, and sometimes severely, He ever +proved faithful to His promise, and never suffered us to +lack any good thing.</p> + +<p>Never, perhaps, was there a union that more fully +realised the blessed truth, "Whoso findeth a wife findeth +a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the <span class="smcap">Lord</span>." My +dear wife was not only a precious gift to me; <span class="smcap">God</span> blessed +her to many others during the twelve eventful years +through which she was spared to those that loved her and +to China.</p> + +<p>Hers had been a life connection with missionary work +in that great empire; for her father, the loved and devoted +Samuel Dyer, was amongst the very earliest representatives +of the London Mission in the East. He reached the Straits +as early as 1827, and for sixteen years laboured assiduously +amongst the Chinese in Penang and Singapore, completing +at the same time a valuable fount of Chinese metallic type, +the first of the kind that had then been attempted. Dying +in 1843, it was never Mr. Dyers privilege to realise his +hopes of ultimately being able to settle on Chinese soil; +but his children lived to see the country opened to the +Gospel, and to take their share in the great work that had +been so dear to his heart. At the time of her marriage, +my dear wife had been already living for several years in +Ningpo with her friend, Miss Aldersey, in whose varied +missionary operations she was well qualified to render +valuable assistance.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_110" id="Page_110">[110]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<a href="images/illus27-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus27.jpg" width="500" height="198" alt="A presentation banner (a mark of high respect)" title="A presentation banner (a mark of high respect)" /></a> +</div> +<h2>CHAPTER XVII</h2> + +<h3>GOD A REFUGE FOR US</h3> + + +<div class='cap'>A SOMEWHAT different though not less manifest answer +to prayer was vouchsafed early in the year 1859. My +dear wife was brought very low by illness, and at last all +hope of recovery seemed gone. Every remedy tried had +proved unavailing; and Dr. Parker, who was in attendance, +had nothing more to suggest. Life was ebbing fast away. +The only ground of hope was that <span class="smcap">God</span> might yet see fit to +raise her up, in answer to believing but submissive prayer.</div> + +<p>The afternoon for the usual prayer meeting among the +missionaries had arrived, and I sent in a request for prayer, +which was most warmly responded to. Just at this time a +remedy that had not yet been tried was suggested to my +mind, and I felt that I must hasten to consult Dr. Parker +as to the propriety of using it. It was a moment of anguish. +The hollow temples, sunken eyes, and pinched features +denoted the near approach of death; and it seemed more +than questionable as to whether life would hold out until +my return. It was nearly two miles to Dr. Parker's house, +and every moment appeared long. On my way thither, +while wrestling mightily with <span class="smcap">God</span> in prayer, the precious +words were brought with power to my soul, "Call upon Me +in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shall +glorify Me." I was at once enabled to plead them in faith,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_111" id="Page_111">[111]</a></span> +and the result was deep, deep, unspeakable peace and joy. +All consciousness of distance was gone. Dr. Parker +cordially approved of the use of the means suggested, but +upon arriving at home I saw at a glance that the desired +change had taken place in the absence of this or any other +remedy. The pinched aspect of the countenance had given +place to the calmness of tranquil slumber, and not one +unfavourable symptom remained to retard recovery to health +and strength.</p> + +<p>Spared thus in answer to prayer the loss of my own +loved one, it was with added sympathy and sorrow that I +felt for Dr. Parker, when, in the autumn of the same +year, his own wife was very suddenly removed. It being +necessary for the doctor to return at once with his motherless +children to Glasgow, temporary arrangements had to +be made for the conduct of the Mission Hospital in +Ningpo, for which he alone had been responsible. Under +these circumstances he requested me to take up the work, +at least so far as the dispensary was concerned. After a +few days' waiting upon the <span class="smcap">Lord</span> for guidance, I felt constrained +to undertake not only the dispensary work, but also +that of the hospital; relying solely upon the faithfulness of +a prayer-hearing <span class="smcap">God</span> to furnish the means required for its +support.</p> + +<p>The funds for the maintenance of the hospital had +hitherto been supplied by the proceeds of the doctor's +foreign medical practice; and with his departure these +ceased. But had not <span class="smcap">God</span> said that whatever we ask in +the Name of the <span class="smcap">Lord Jesus</span> shall be done? And are +we not told to seek first the kingdom of <span class="smcap">God</span>, not means +to advance it, and that all these things shall be added to +us? Such promises were surely sufficient. Eight days +before entering upon this responsibility I had not the +remotest idea of ever doing so; still less could friends at<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_112" id="Page_112">[112]</a></span> +home have anticipated it. But the <span class="smcap">Lord</span> had foreseen the +need, and already funds were on the way to supply it.</p> + +<p>At times there were not less than fifty in-patients in the +hospital, besides a large number who daily attended the +out-patient department. Thirty beds were ordinarily allotted +to free patients and their attendants; and about as +many to opium-smokers, who paid for their board while +being cured of the habit. As all the wants of the sick in +the wards were supplied gratuitously, in addition to the +remedial appliances needed for the out-patient work, the +daily expenses were considerable; besides which, a number +of native attendants were required, involving their support.</p> + +<p>When Dr. Parker handed the hospital over to me he +was able to leave money that would meet the salaries and +working expenses of the current month, and little more. +Being unable to guarantee their support, his native staff +retired; and then I mentioned the circumstances to the +members of our little church, some of whom volunteered +to help me, depending, like myself, upon the <span class="smcap">Lord</span>; and +they with me continued to wait upon <span class="smcap">God</span> that in some +way or other He would provide for His own work. Day +by day the stores diminished, and they were all but exhausted +when one day a remarkable letter reached me +from a friend in England which contained a cheque for +£50. The letter stated that the sender had recently lost +his father, and had inherited his property; that not desiring +to increase his personal expenditure, he wished to hold +the money which had now been left to him to further the +<span class="smcap">Lord's</span> work. He enclosed the £50, saying that I might +know of some special need for it; but leaving me free to +use it for my own support, or in any way that the <span class="smcap">Lord</span> +might lead me; only asking to know how it was applied, +and whether there was need for more.</p> + +<p>After a little season of thanksgiving with my dear wife,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_113" id="Page_113">[113]</a></span> +I called my native helpers into our little chapel, and translated +to them the letter. I need not say how rejoiced they +were, and that we together praised <span class="smcap">God</span>. They returned +to their work in the hospital with overflowing hearts, and +told out to the patients what a <span class="smcap">God</span> was ours; appealing +to them whether their idols had ever helped them so. +Both helpers and patients were blessed spiritually through +this remarkable provision, and from that time the <span class="smcap">Lord</span> +provided all that was necessary for carrying on the institution, +in addition to what was needed for the maintenance +of my own family, and for sustaining other branches of +missionary work under my care. When, nine months +later, I was obliged through failure of health to relinquish +this charge, I was able to leave more funds in hand for +the support of the hospital than were forthcoming at the +time I undertook it.</p> + +<p>But not only were pecuniary supplies vouchsafed in +answer to prayer—many lives were spared; persons apparently +in hopeless stages of disease were restored, and +success was given in cases of serious and dangerous +operations. In the case of one poor man, whose legs +were amputated under very unfavourable circumstances, +healthy action took place with such rapidity that both +wounds were healed in less than two weeks. And more +permanent benefits than these were conferred. Many +were convinced of the truth of Christianity; not a few +sought the <span class="smcap">Lord</span> in faith and prayer, and experienced the +power of the Great Physician to cure the sin-sick soul. +During the nine months above alluded to sixteen patients +from the hospital were baptized, and more than thirty +others became candidates for admission into one or other +of the Christian churches in the city.</p> + +<p>Thus the year 1860 began with openings on all hands, +but time and strength were sadly too limited to admit of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_114" id="Page_114">[114]</a></span> +their being used to the best advantage. For some time +the help of additional workers had been a much-felt need; +and in January very definite prayer was made to the <span class="smcap">Lord</span> +of the harvest that He would thrust forth more labourers +into this special portion of the great world-field. Writing +to relatives at home in England, under date of January +16th, 1860, I thus expressed the deep longing of our +hearts:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Do you know any earnest, devoted young men desirous +of serving <span class="smcap">God</span> in China, who—not wishing for more than +their actual support—would be willing to come out and +labour here? Oh, for four or five such helpers! They +would probably begin to preach in Chinese in six months +time; and in answer to prayer the necessary means for +their support would be found.</p></div> + +<p>But no one came to help us then; and under the +incessant physical and mental strain involved, in the care +of the hospital during Dr. Parker's absence, as well as the +continued discharge of my other missionary duties, my +own health began rapidly to fail, and it became a serious +question as to whether it would not be needful to return +to England for a time.</p> + +<p>It was hard to face this possibility. The growing +church and work seemed to need our presence, and it was +no small trial to part from those whom we had learned so +truly to love in the <span class="smcap">Lord</span>. Thirty or forty native Christians +had been gathered into the recently organised church; +and the well-filled meetings, and the warm-hearted earnestness +of the converts, all bespoke a future of much promise. +At last, however, completely prostrated by repeated attacks +of illness, the only hope of restoration seemed to lie in a +voyage to England and a brief stay in its more bracing +climate; and this necessity, painful though it seemed at<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_115" id="Page_115">[115]</a></span> +the time, proved to be only another opportunity for the +manifestation of the faithfulness and loving care of Him +"who worketh all things after the counsel of His own +will."</p> + +<p>As heretofore, the <span class="smcap">Lord</span> was present with His aid. The +means for our journey were supplied, and that so liberally +that we were able to bring with us a native Christian to +assist in translation or other literary work, and to instruct +in the language such helpers as the <span class="smcap">Lord</span> might raise up +for the extension of the Mission. That He would give us +fellow-labourers we had no doubt; for we had been +enabled to seek them from Him in earnest and believing +prayer for many months previously.</p> + +<p>The day before leaving China we wrote as follows to +our friend W. T. Berger, Esq., whom we had known in +England, and who had ever strengthened our hands in the +<span class="smcap">Lord</span> while in that distant land:—</p> + +<p>"We are bringing with us a young Chinese brother to +assist in literary work, and I hope also in teaching the +dialect to those whom the <span class="smcap">Lord</span> may induce to return +with us."</p> + +<p>And throughout the voyage our earnest cry to <span class="smcap">God</span> was +that He would overrule our stay at home for good to +China, and make it instrumental in raising up at least five +helpers to labour in the province of <span class="smcap">Cheh-kiang</span>.</p> + +<p>The way in which it pleased the <span class="smcap">Lord</span> to answer these +earnest and believing prayers, and the "exceeding abundantly" +with which He crowned them, we shall now sketch +in brief outline.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_116" id="Page_116">[116]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus28.jpg" width="500" height="232" alt="View on the Po-yang lake" title="View on the Po-yang lake" /> +</div> +<h2>CHAPTER XVIII</h2> + +<h3>A NEW AGENCY NEEDED</h3> + + +<div class='cap'>"My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your +ways My ways, saith the <span class="smcap">Lord</span>. For as the +heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher +than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts."<a name="FNanchor_3_3" id="FNanchor_3_3"></a><a href="#Footnote_3_3" class="fnanchor">[3]</a> +How true are these words! When the <span class="smcap">Lord</span> is bringing +in great blessing in the best possible way, how oftentimes +our unbelieving hearts are feeling, if not saying, like Jacob +of old, "All these things are against me." Or we are filled +with fear, as were the disciples when the <span class="smcap">Lord</span>, walking on +the waters, drew near to quiet the troubled sea, and to +bring them quickly to their desired haven. And yet mere +common-sense ought to tell us that He, whose way is perfect, +<i>can</i> make no mistakes; that He who has promised to +"perfect that which concerneth" us, and whose minute care +counts the very hairs of our heads, and forms for us our +circumstances, <i>must</i> know better than we the way to forward +our truest interests and to glorify His own Name.</div> + +<div class='poem'><br /> +"Blind unbelief is <i>sure</i> to err<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">And scan His work in vain;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;"><span class="smcap">God</span> is His own Interpreter,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">And He will make it plain."</span><br /> +</div> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_117" id="Page_117">[117]</a></span>To me it seemed a great calamity that failure of health +compelled my relinquishing work for <span class="smcap">God</span> in China, just +when it was more fruitful than ever before; and to leave +the little band of Christians in Ningpo, needing much care +and teaching, was a great sorrow. Nor was the sorrow +lessened when, on reaching England, medical testimony +assured me that return to China, at least for years to come, +was impossible. Little did I then realise that the long +separation from China was a necessary step towards the +formation of a work which <span class="smcap">God</span> would bless as He has +blessed the <span class="smcap">China Inland Mission</span>. While in the field, +the pressure of claims immediately around me was so great +that I could not think much of the still greater needs of the +regions farther inland; and, if they were thought of, could +do nothing for them. But while detained for some years in +England, daily viewing the whole country on the large map +on the wall of my study, I was as near to the vast regions +of Inland China as to the smaller districts in which I had +laboured personally for <span class="smcap">God</span>; and prayer was often the only +resource by which the burdened heart could gain any +relief.</p> + +<p>As a long absence from China appeared inevitable, the +next question was how best to serve China while in England, +and this led to my engaging for several years, with +the late Rev. F. F. Gough of the C. M. S., in the revision of +a version of the New Testament in the colloquial of Ningpo +for the British and Foreign Bible Society. In undertaking +this work, in my short-sightedness I saw nothing beyond +the use that the Book, and the marginal references, would be +to the native Christians; but I have often seen since that, +without those months of feeding and feasting on the Word +of <span class="smcap">God</span>, I should have been quite unprepared to form, on +its present basis, a mission like the <span class="smcap">China Inland Mission</span>.</p> + +<p>In the study of that Divine Word I learned that, to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_118" id="Page_118">[118]</a></span> +obtain successful labourers, not elaborate appeals for help, +but, <i>first</i>, earnest <i>prayer to <span class="smcap">God</span> to thrust forth labourers</i>, +and, <i>second</i>, the deepening of the spiritual life of the +church, so that <i>men should be unable to stay at home</i>, were +what was needed. I saw that the Apostolic plan was not +to raise ways and means, but <i>to go and do the work</i>, trusting +in His sure Word who has said, "Seek ye <i>first</i> the Kingdom +of <span class="smcap">God</span> and His righteousness, and all these things shall be +added unto you."</p> + +<p>In the meantime the prayer for workers for <span class="smcap">Cheh-kiang</span> +was being answered. The first, Mr. Meadows, sailed for +China with his young wife in January 1862, through the +kind co-operation and aid of our friend Mr. Berger. The +second left England in 1864, having her passage provided +by the Foreign Evangelisation Society. The third and +fourth reached Ningpo on July 24th, 1865. A fifth soon +followed them, reaching Ningpo in September 1865. Thus +the prayer for the five workers was fully answered; and we +were encouraged to look to <span class="smcap">God</span> for still greater things.</p> + +<p>Months of earnest prayer and not a few abortive efforts +had resulted in a deep conviction that <i>a special agency was +essential</i> for the evangelisation of Inland China. At this +time I had not only the daily help of prayer and conference +with my beloved friend and fellow-worker the late Rev. F. +F. Gough, but also invaluable aid and counsel from Mr. +and Mrs. Berger, with whom I and my dear wife (whose +judgment and piety were of priceless value at this juncture) +spent many days in prayerful deliberation. The grave +difficulty of possibly interfering with existing missionary +operations at home was foreseen; but it was concluded +that, by simple trust in <span class="smcap">God</span>, suitable agency might be raised +up and sustained without interfering injuriously with any +existing work. I had also a growing conviction that <span class="smcap">God</span> +would have <i>me</i> to seek from Him the needed workers, and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_119" id="Page_119">[119]</a></span> +to go forth with them. But for a long time unbelief +hindered my taking the first step.</p> + +<p>How inconsistent unbelief always is! I had no doubt +that, if I prayed for workers, "<i>in</i> the Name" of the <span class="smcap">Lord +Jesus Christ</span>, they would be given me. I had no doubt +that, in answer to such prayer, the means for our going +forth would be provided, and that doors would be opened +before us in unreached parts of the Empire. But I had not +then learned to trust <span class="smcap">God</span> for <i>keeping</i> power and grace for +myself, so no wonder that I could not trust Him to keep +others who might be prepared to go with me. I feared that +in the midst of the dangers, difficulties, and trials which +would necessarily be connected with such a work, some who +were comparatively inexperienced Christians might break +down, and bitterly reproach me for having encouraged them +to undertake an enterprise for which they were unequal.</p> + +<p>Yet, what was I to do? The feeling of blood-guiltiness +became more and more intense. Simply because I refused +to ask for them, the labourers did not come forward—did +not go out to China—and every day tens of thousands were +passing away to Christless graves! Perishing China so +filled my heart and mind that there was no rest by day, +and little sleep by night, till health broke down. At the +invitation of my beloved and honoured friend, Mr. George +Pearse (then of the Stock Exchange), I went to spend a +few days with him in Brighton.</p> + +<p>On Sunday, June 25th, 1865, unable to bear the sight +of a congregation of a thousand or more Christian people +rejoicing in their own security, while millions were perishing +for lack of knowledge, I wandered out on the sands alone, +in great spiritual agony; and there the <span class="smcap">Lord</span> conquered +my unbelief, and I surrendered myself to <span class="smcap">God</span> for this +service. I told Him that all the responsibility as to issues +and consequences must rest with Him; that as His servant,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_120" id="Page_120">[120]</a></span> +it was mine to obey and to follow Him—His, to direct, to +care for, and to guide me and those who might labour with +me. Need I say that peace at once flowed into my burdened +heart? There and then I asked Him for twenty-four +fellow-workers, two for each of eleven inland provinces +which were without a missionary, and two for Mongolia; +and writing the petition on the margin of the Bible I had +with me, I returned home with a heart enjoying rest such +as it had been a stranger to for months, and with an assurance +that the <span class="smcap">Lord</span> would bless His own work and that I +should share in the blessing. I had previously prayed, and +asked prayer, that workers might be raised up for the eleven +then unoccupied provinces, and thrust forth and provided +for, but had not surrendered myself to be their leader.</p> + +<p>About this time, with the help of my dear wife, I wrote +the little book, <i>China's Spiritual Need and Claims</i>. +Every paragraph was steeped in prayer. With the help of +Mr. Berger, who had given valued aid in the revision of +the manuscript, and who bore the expense of printing an +edition of 3000 copies, they were soon put in circulation. +I spoke publicly of the proposed work as opportunity permitted, +specially at the Perth and Mildmay Conferences of +1865, and continued in prayer for fellow-workers, who were +soon raised up, and after due correspondence were invited +to my home, then in the East of London. When one +house became insufficient, the occupant of the adjoining +house removed, and I was able to rent it; and when that +in its turn became insufficient, further accommodation was +provided close by. Soon there were a number of men and +women under preparatory training, and engaging in evangelistic +work which tested in some measure their qualifications +as soul-winners.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_121" id="Page_121">[121]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus29.jpg" width="500" height="171" alt="A village on the grand canal" title="A village on the grand canal" /> +</div> +<h2>CHAPTER XIX</h2> + +<h3>THE FORMATION OF THE C. I. M.</h3> + + +<div class='cap'>IT was thus that in the year 1865 the <span class="smcap">China Inland +Mission</span> was organised; and the workers already in +the field were incorporated into it. W. T. Berger, Esq., +then residing at Saint Hill, near East Grinstead, without +whose help and encouragement I could not have gone +forward, undertook the direction of the home department +of the work during my anticipated absence in China; and +I proposed, as soon as arrangements could be completed, +to go out with the volunteers and take the direction of the +work in the field. For the support of the workers already +in China, our friends at home were sending in unsolicited +contributions from time to time, and every need was met.</div> + +<p>We had now, however, to look forward to the outgoing +of a party of sixteen or seventeen, and estimated that from +£1500 to £2000 might be required to cover outfits, +passage-money, and initial expenses. I wrote a little +pamphlet, calling it "Occasional Paper, No. I." (intending +in successive numbers to give to donors and friends +accounts of the work wrought through us in China), and +in that paper stated the anticipated needs for floating the +enterprise. I expected that <span class="smcap">God</span> would incline the hearts of +some of the readers to send contributions: I had determined +never to use personal solicitation, or to make collections, or +to issue collecting-books. Missionary-boxes were thought unobjectionable, +and we had a few prepared for those who might +ask for them, and have continued to use them ever since.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_122" id="Page_122">[122]</a></span></p> + +<p>It was February 6th, 1866, when I sent my manuscript +of "Occasional Paper, No. I.," with a design for the cover, +to the printer. From delays in engraving and printing, +it was March 12th when the bales of pamphlets were +delivered at my house. Now on February 6th a daily +prayer-meeting, from 12 to 1 o'clock, had been commenced, +to ask for the needed funds. And that we had +not asked in vain, the following extract from "Occasional +Paper, No. II." will show:—</p> + +<p>"The receipts for 1864 were £51:14s.; for 1865, +from January to June, £221:12:6, besides two free passages; +from June to December, £923:12:8. Hindrances +having occurred, the MS. of the "Occasional Paper, No. I." +was not completed till February 6th, 1866. Up to this +time we had received (from December 30th) £170:8:3.</p> + +<p>"We felt much encouraged by the receipt of so much +money in little more than a month, as it was entirely unsolicited +by us—save from <span class="smcap">God</span>. But it was also evident +that we must ask the <span class="smcap">Lord</span> to do yet greater things for us, +or it would be impossible for a party of from ten to sixteen +to leave in the middle of May. <i>Daily united prayer was therefore +offered to</i> <span class="smcap">God</span> for the funds needful for the outfits and +passages of as many as He would have to go out in May.</p> + +<p>"Owing to the delays mentioned above in the printing of +the 'Occasional Paper,' it was not ready for the publisher +until March 12th. On this day I again examined my +mission cash-book, and the comparison of the result of +the two similar periods of one month and six days each, +one before and one after special prayer for £1500 to +£2000, was very striking:—</p> + + + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td align='left' colspan='4'>"Receipts from December 30th to February 6th,</td><td align='right'>£170</td><td align='right'> 8</td><td align='right'> 3</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> " Feb. 6th to Mar. 12th</td><td align='right'>£1774</td><td align='right'> 5</td><td align='right'> 11</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>"Funds advised, since received</td><td align='right'>200</td><td align='right'> 0</td><td align='right'> 0</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='right' colspan='3'>—————</td><td align='right'>£1974</td><td align='right'> 5</td><td align='right'> 11</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_123" id="Page_123">[123]</a></span>"This, it will be noticed, was <i>previous</i> to the circulation +of the 'Occasional Paper,' and, consequently, was not the +result of it. It was the response of a faithful <span class="smcap">God</span> to the +united prayers of those whom He had called to serve Him +in the Gospel of His dear <span class="smcap">Son</span>.</p> + +<p>"We can now compare with these two periods a third of the +same extent. From March 12th to April 18th the receipts +were £529, showing that when <span class="smcap">God</span> had supplied the +special need, the special supply also ceased. Truly there is a +<span class="smcap">Living God</span>, and <span class="smcap">He</span> is the hearer and answerer of prayer."</p> + +<p>But this gracious answer to prayer made it a little +difficult to circulate "Occasional Paper, No. I.," for it +stated as a need that which was already supplied. The +difficulty was obviated by the issue with each copy of a +coloured inset stating that the funds for outfit and passage +were already in hand in answer to prayer. We were +reminded of the difficulty of Moses—not a very common +one in the present day—and of the proclamation he had +to send through the camp to the people to prepare no +more for the building of the Tabernacle, as the gifts in +hand were already too much. We are convinced that if +there were <i>less</i> solicitation for money and <i>more</i> dependence +upon the power of the <span class="smcap">Holy Ghost</span> and upon the deepening +of spiritual life, the experience of Moses would be a +common one in every branch of Christian work.</p> + +<p>Preparations for sailing to China were at once proceeded +with. About this time I was asked to give a lecture on +China in a village not very far from London, and agreed to +do so on condition that there should be no collection, and +that this should be announced on the bills. The gentleman +who invited me, and who kindly presided as chairman, said +he had never had that condition imposed before. He accepted +it, however, and the bills were issued accordingly for +the 2nd or 3rd of May. With the aid of a large map, something<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_124" id="Page_124">[124]</a></span> +of the extent and population and deep spiritual need +of China was presented, and many were evidently impressed.</p> + +<p>At the close of the meeting the chairman said that by +my request it had been intimated on the bills that there +would be no collection; but he felt that many present +would be distressed and burdened if they had not the +opportunity of contributing something towards the good +work proposed. He trusted that as the proposition emanated +entirely from himself, and expressed, he felt sure, the +feelings of many in the audience, I should not object to it. +I begged, however, that the condition agreed to might be +carried out; pointing out among other reasons for making +no collection, that the very reason adduced by our kind +chairman was, to my mind, one of the strongest for not +making it. My wish was, not that those present should be +relieved by making such contribution as might there and +then be convenient, under the influence of a present +emotion; but that each one should go home burdened with +the deep need of China, and ask of <span class="smcap">God</span> what He would +have them to do. If, after thought and prayer, they were +satisfied that a pecuniary contribution was what He wanted +of them, it could be given to any Missionary Society having +agents in China; or it might be posted to our London +office; but that perhaps in many cases what <span class="smcap">God</span> wanted +was <i>not</i> a money contribution, but personal consecration to +His service abroad; or the giving up of son or daughter—more +precious than silver or gold—to His service. I added +that I thought the tendency of a collection was to leave the +impression that the all-important thing was <i>money</i>, whereas +no amount of money could convert a single soul; that what +was needed was that men and women filled with the <span class="smcap">Holy +Ghost</span> should give <i>themselves</i> to the work: for the support +of such there would never be a lack of funds. As my wish +was evidently very strong, the chairman kindly yielded to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_125" id="Page_125">[125]</a></span> +it, and closed the meeting. He told me, however, at the +supper-table, that he thought it was a mistake on my part, +and that, notwithstanding all I had said, a few persons had +put some little contributions into his hands.</p> + +<p>Next morning at breakfast, my kind host came in a little +late, and acknowledged to not having had a very good night. +After breakfast he asked me to his study, and giving me +the contributions handed to him the night before, said, +"I thought last night, Mr. Taylor, that you were in the +wrong about a collection; I am now convinced you were +quite right. As I thought in the night of that stream of +souls in China ever passing onward into the dark, I could +only cry as you suggested, '<span class="smcap">Lord</span>, what wilt Thou have <i>me</i> +to do?' I think I have obtained the guidance I sought, +and here it is." He handed me a cheque for £500, +adding that if there had been a collection he would have +given a few pounds to it, but now this cheque was the +result of having spent no small part of the night in prayer.</p> + +<p>I need scarcely say how surprised and thankful I was +for this gift. I had received at the breakfast-table a letter +from Messrs. Killick, Martin and Co., shipping agents, in +which they stated that they could offer us the whole +passenger accommodation of the ship <i>Lammermuir</i>. I went +direct to the ship, found it in every way suitable, and paid +the cheque on account. As above stated, the funds +deemed needed had been already in hand for some time; +but the coincidence of the simultaneous offer of the ship +accommodation and this munificent gift—<span class="smcap">God's</span> "exceeding +abundantly"—greatly encouraged my heart.</p> + +<p>On the 26th of May we sailed for China in the <i>Lammermuir</i>, +a missionary party of 16 (besides my four children and +their nurse, and Miss Bausum (afterwards Mrs. Barchet<ins title="Transcriber's Note: This closing parenthesis missing in original">)</ins>); in +all 22 passengers. Mr. Berger took charge of the home +department, and thus the C. I. M. was fully inaugurated.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_126" id="Page_126">[126]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus30.jpg" width="500" height="215" alt="The battlements of Pekin" title="The battlements of Pekin" /> +</div> +<h2>CHAPTER XX</h2> + +<h3>THE MISSION IN 1894</h3> + + +<div class='cap'>THE events sketched in the last two chapters have +been more fully delineated by Miss Guinness in +her interesting <i>Story of the China Inland Mission</i>, which +continues its history to the present date. It is indeed +a record of the goodness of <span class="smcap">God</span>, every remembrance of +which calls for gratitude and praise. We can only here +briefly mention a few facts, referring our readers to Miss +Guinness's work for all details.</div> + +<p>After a voyage of many mercies the <i>Lammermuir</i> party +safely reached China, and during the first ten years stations +and out-stations were opened in many cities and towns in +four provinces which hitherto had been unreached by the +Gospel. At home Mr. and Mrs. Berger continued their +devoted service until March 19th, 1872, I having returned +to England the year before. Shortly after this the London +Council was formed, which has now for several years been +assisted by an auxiliary Council of ladies. A Scotch +Council was also formed in Glasgow a few years ago.</p> + +<p>A visit to America in 1888 issued in the formation of +the Council for North America, and a similar Council for +Australasia was commenced in Melbourne two years later. +In the field a China Council was organised in 1886, composed +of senior missionaries who meet quarterly in Shanghai.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_127" id="Page_127">[127]</a></span></p> + +<p>Closely associated with the C. I. M. are seven Committees—in +England, Norway, Sweden (two), Finland, Germany, and +the United States—which send out and support their own +missionaries, who in China have the assistance of the +educational and other advantages of the C. I. M., and +who work under its direction.</p> + +<p>The staff of the Mission, in May 1893, consisted of +552 missionaries (including wives and associates). There +were also 326 native helpers (95 of whom were unpaid), +working as pastors, evangelists, teachers, colporteurs, Bible-women, +etc., in 14 different provinces.</p> + +<p>Duly qualified candidates for missionary labour are +accepted without restriction as to denomination, provided +they are sound in the faith in all fundamental truths: +these go out in dependence upon <span class="smcap">God</span> for temporal supplies, +with the clear understanding that the officers of the Mission +do not guarantee any income whatever; and knowing that +as they will not go into debt, they can only minister to +them as the funds sent in from time to time will allow. +But we praise <span class="smcap">God</span> that during the past twenty-eight years +such ministry has always been possible; our <span class="smcap">God</span> <i>has</i> +supplied all our need, and has withheld no good thing.</p> + +<p>All the expenses of the Mission at home and abroad +are met by voluntary contributions, sent to the offices of +the Mission without personal solicitation, by those who +wish to aid in this effort to spread the knowledge of the +Gospel throughout China. The income for the year 1892 +was about £34,000 from all sources—Great Britain, the +Continent of Europe, North America, Australasia, China, +etc.</p> + +<p>Some of the missionaries having private property have +gone out at their own expense, and do not take anything +from the Mission funds.</p> + +<p>Stations have been opened in ten of the eleven provinces<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_128" id="Page_128">[128]</a></span> +which were previously without Protestant missionaries; from +one of these, however, we have had to retire. The eleventh +province has been visited several times, and it is hoped +that in it permanent work may soon be begun.</p> + +<p>More than 200 stations and out-stations have been +opened in fourteen of the eighteen provinces, in all of +which stations either missionaries or native labourers are +resident. Over 6000 converts have been baptized from +the commencement, some 4000 of whom are now living +and in fellowship.</p> + + +<h3><br />THE MISSION IN 1902</h3> + +<p>The year 1894, in which the first edition of <i>A Retrospect</i> +appeared, was marked by the erection of large and commodious +premises for the work of the Mission, and early +in the following year the houses in Pyrland Road, which +had so long formed the home of the Mission in England, +were vacated, and <span class="smcap">Newington Green, London, N.</span>, became +the address of the Mission offices and home.</p> + +<p>From that date until the Boxer outbreak of 1900 the +Mission made steady progress, the development of the work +in China being accompanied by corresponding developments +in the home departments of the Mission in England, +America, and Australasia.</p> + +<p>In January 1900, before the Boxer outbreak, there were +in connection with the Mission, 811 missionaries, including +wives and associates; 171 stations; 223 out-stations; 387 +chapels; 581 paid native helpers; 193 unpaid native +helpers; 8557 communicants in fellowship, 12,964 having +been baptized from the commencement. There were 266 +organised churches; 788 boarding scholars; 1382 day +scholars; 6 hospitals; 18 dispensaries; and 46 opium +refuges.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_129" id="Page_129">[129]</a></span></p> + +<p>During the terrible year of 1900, when no fewer than +135 missionaries and 53 missionaries' children and many +thousands of Chinese Christians were cruelly murdered, +the China Inland Mission lost 58 missionaries and 21 +children. The records of these unparalleled times of +suffering have been told in <i>Martyred Missionaries of the +China Inland Mission</i> and in <i>Last Letters</i>, both of which +books will be found advertised at the end of this volume. +Apart from loss of life, there was an immense amount of +Mission property destroyed, and the missionaries were +compelled to retire from their stations in most parts of +China.</p> + +<p>The doors closed by this outbreak have all been reopened +in the goodness of <span class="smcap">God</span>. In those districts which suffered +most from the massacres the work has largely been one of +reorganisation; but throughout China generally there has +been a spirit of awakening and a time of enlarged opportunity; +which is a loud call for more men and women to +volunteer to step into the gaps and fill the places of those +who have fallen.</p> + +<p>Among recent developments we would specially mention +the opening of a new home centre at Philadelphia, U.S.A. +The total income of the Mission for 1901 was £53,633 = +$257,712, and the total received in England alone, for 1902, +was £51,446 = $246,912. The total membership of the +Mission in June 1902 was 761.</p> + +<p>Current information about the progress of the work in +China may be obtained from <i>China's Millions</i>, the organ of +the Mission. It is published monthly, and may be ordered +through any bookseller from Messrs. Morgan and Scott, 12 +Paternoster Buildings, E.C., for 1s. per year, or direct by +post from the offices of the Mission, Newington Green, +London, N., for 1s. 6d. per annum.</p> + +<p>The Australasian edition of <i>China's Millions</i> may be<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_130" id="Page_130">[130]</a></span> +ordered at the same price from M. L. Hutchinson, Little +Collins Street, or from the Mission Offices, 267 Collins +Street, Melbourne. The North American edition will be +sent post free from the Mission Offices, 507 Church Street, +Toronto, for 50 cents per annum.</p> + +<p>Prayer meetings on behalf of the work in China are +held at the principal home centres of the Mission, as +follows: Every Saturday afternoon from 4 to 6 o'clock, at +Newington Green, London. Every Friday evening at 8 +o'clock, at 507 Church Street, Toronto. Every Saturday +afternoon at 4 o'clock, in the Office, 267 Collins Street, +Melbourne. A hearty invitation to attend any one of these +meetings is given to any one residing in or visiting any of +these cities.</p> + +<p>Donations to the Mission, applications from candidates, +orders for literature, requests for deputation speakers, and +other correspondence should be forwarded to</p> + +<p> +The Secretary,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">China Inland Mission,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;">Newington Green, London, N.</span><br /> +</p> + +<p> +The Home Director,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">China Inland Mission,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;">507 Church Street, Toronto, Canada.</span><br /> +</p> + +<div class='unindent'>or</div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 2.5em;">702 Witherspoon Buildings, Philadelphia, U.S.A.</span><br /> +</p> + +<div class='unindent'>or to</div> + +<p> +The Secretary,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">China Inland Mission,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;">267 Collins Street, Melbourne, Australia.</span><br /> +</p> +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class='center'><a name="map" id="map"></a><b>MAP OF CHINA</b><br /></div> + + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="Map caption"> +<tr><td align='left' rowspan='2' valign='middle'>Shewing</td><td align='left' rowspan='2' valign='middle' style="white-space: nowrap; font-size: 52pt;"> {</td><td align='left' valign='bottom'><div class='hang1'>1. All Protestant Mission Stations in China up to June 1866, when the C.I.M. was founded (they numbered fifteen) These are underlined in black.</div></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><div class='hang1'>2. The Stations of the China Inland Mission which (with the exception of Ning-Po & Fung-hwa) have been opened since June 1866. These are printed in red.</div></td></tr> +</table></div> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<a href="images/map-big.jpg"><img src="images/map.jpg" width="500" height="447" alt="China" title="China" /></a> +</div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_131" id="Page_131">[131]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus31.jpg" width="500" height="193" alt="Native woodcut of a landscape" title="Native woodcut of a landscape" /> +</div> +<h2>STATIONS OF THE CHINA INLAND MISSION</h2> + +<h3>1900</h3> + +<div class='center'>(BEFORE THE BOXER OUTBREAK)</div> + + +<p>The best guide to the stations of the Mission is the new <i>China Inland Mission +Map</i> (size 44 × 38 in., mounted on linen, coloured, varnished, and hung on rollers), +price 8s. <i>net</i>, carriage and packing extra. Mounted to fold, 8s. <i>net</i>, post free.</p> + + + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="Stations of the China Inland Mission"> +<tr><td align='center'>Provinces.<a name="FNanchor_4_4" id="FNanchor_4_4"></a><a href="#Footnote_4_4" class="fnanchor">[4]</a></td><td align='left'>Stations.<a name="FNanchor_5_5" id="FNanchor_5_5"></a><a href="#Footnote_5_5" class="fnanchor">[5]</a></td><td align='center'><span class="smcap">Work<br />Begun.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><b>Kan-suh</b>, 1876</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Liang-chau</span></td><td align='left'>1888</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Si-ning</span></td><td align='left'>1885</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>LAN-CHAU</td><td align='left'>1885</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Ts'in-chau</span></td><td align='left'>1878</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><i>Area,<a name="FNanchor_6_6" id="FNanchor_6_6"></a><a href="#Footnote_6_6" class="fnanchor">[6]</a> 125,450 square miles.</i></td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Fu K'iang</span></td><td align='left'>1899</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><i>Population, 9,285,377.</i></td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">P'ing-liang</span></td><td align='left'>1895</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">King-chau</span></td><td align='left'>1895</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Ts'ing-ning</span></td><td align='left'>1897</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>Chen-yuen</td><td align='left'>1897</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>Tong-chi</td><td align='left'>1899</td></tr> +<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><hr style="width: 100%;" /></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><b>Shen-si</b>, 1876.</td><td align='left'>Lung-chau</td><td align='left'>1893</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Feng-tsiang</span></td><td align='left'>1888</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>Mei-hien</td><td align='left'>1893</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">K'ien-chau</span></td><td align='left'>1894</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><i>Area, 67,400 square miles.</i></td><td align='left'>Chau-chih</td><td align='left'>1893</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><i>Population, 8,432,193.</i></td><td align='left'><i>Sang-kia-chuang</i></td><td align='left'>1894</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>Hing-p'ing</td><td align='left'>1893</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>SI-GAN</td><td align='left'>1893</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><i>Ying-kia-wei</i></td><td align='left'>1893</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_132" id="Page_132">[132]</a></span> </td><td align='left'>Chen-kia-hu</td><td align='left'>1897</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>Lan-t'ien</td><td align='left'>1895</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>K'ien-yang</td><td align='left'>1897</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>Ch'ang-wu</td><td align='left'>1897</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>San-shui</td><td align='left'>1897</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">T'ung-chau</span></td><td align='left'>1891</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>Han-ch'eng</td><td align='left'>1897</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Han-chung</span></td><td align='left'>1879</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>Ch'eng-ku</td><td align='left'>1887</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>Si-hsiang</td><td align='left'>1896</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>Yang-hien</td><td align='left'>1896</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Hing-an</span></td><td align='left'>1898</td></tr> +<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><hr style="width: 100%;" /></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><b>Shan-si</b>, 1876</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Ta-t'ung</span></td><td align='left'>1886</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>Hwen-yuen</td><td align='left'>1898</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Soh-p'ing</span></td><td align='left'>1895</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>Tsö-yuin</td><td align='left'>1895</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Ying-chau</span></td><td align='left'>1897</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>Hiao-i</td><td align='left'>1887</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>Kiai-hiu</td><td align='left'>1891</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Sih-chau</span></td><td align='left'>1885</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>Ta-ning</td><td align='left'>1885</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Kih-chau</span></td><td align='left'>1891</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>Ho-tsin</td><td align='left'>1893</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>Ping-yao</td><td align='left'>1888</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><i>Area, 56,268 square miles.</i></td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Hoh-chau</span></td><td align='left'>1886</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><i>Population, 12,211,453.</i></td><td align='left'>Hung-t'ung</td><td align='left'>1886</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>Yoh-yang</td><td align='left'>1896</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">P'ing-yang</span></td><td align='left'>1879</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>K'üh-wu</td><td align='left'>1885</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>I-shï</td><td align='left'>1891</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>Yüin-ch'eng</td><td align='left'>1888</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><i>Mei-ti-kiai</i></td><td align='left'>1895</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Hiai-chau</span></td><td align='left'>1895</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>Lu-ch'eng</td><td align='left'>1889</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><i>Ü-wu</i></td><td align='left'>1896</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Lu-gan</span></td><td align='left'>1889</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>Kiang-chau</td><td align='left'>1898</td></tr> +<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><hr style="width: 100%;" /></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><b>Chih-li</b>, 1887</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">T'ien-tsin</span></td><td align='left'>1888</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><i>Area, 58,949 square miles.</i></td><td align='left'>PAO-T'ING</td><td align='left'>1891</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><i>Population, 17,937,000.</i></td><td align='left'>Hwuy-luh</td><td align='left'>1887</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_133" id="Page_133">[133]</a></span> </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Shun-teh</span></td><td align='left'>1888</td></tr> +<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><hr style="width: 100%;" /></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><b>Shan-tung</b>, 1879</td><td align='left'><i>Chefoo</i></td><td align='left'>1879</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'> " Sanatorium</td><td align='left'>1880</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'> " Boys' School</td><td align='left'>1880</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><i>Area, 53,762 square miles.</i></td><td align='left'> " Girls' "</td><td align='left'>1884</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><i>Population, 36,247,835.</i></td><td align='left'> " Preparatory School</td><td align='left'>1895</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><i>T'ung-shin</i></td><td align='left'>1889</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>Ning-hai</td><td align='left'>1886</td></tr> +<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><hr style="width: 100%;" /></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><b>Ho-nan</b>, 1875</td><td align='left'>Siang-ch'eng</td><td align='left'>1891</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><i>Chau-kia-k'eo</i></td><td align='left'>1884</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Ho-nan</i></span></td><td align='center'>...</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Ho-peh</i></span></td><td align='center'>...</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Ho-si</i></span></td><td align='center'>...</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><i>Area, 66,913 square miles.</i></td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Ch'en-chau</span></td><td align='left'>1895</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><i>Population, 22,115,827.</i></td><td align='left'>T'ai-k'ang</td><td align='left'>1895</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><i>She-k'i-tien</i></td><td align='left'>1886</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>Kwang-chau</td><td align='left'>1899</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>Hin-an</td><td align='left'>1899</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><i>King-tsï-kuan</i></td><td align='left'>1896</td></tr> +<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><hr style="width: 100%;" /></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><b>W. Si-ch'uan</b>, 1877</td><td align='left'>Kwan-hien</td><td align='left'>1889</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>CH'EN-TU</td><td align='left'>1881</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Kia-ting</span></td><td align='left'>1888</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><i>Area of whole Province, 166,800 square miles.</i></td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Sui-fu</span></td><td align='left'>1888</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Lu-chau</span></td><td align='left'>1890</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>Hiao-shï</td><td align='left'>1899</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Ch'ung-k'ing</span></td><td align='left'>1877</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>Ta-chien-lu</td><td align='left'>1897</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><b>E. Si-ch'uan</b>, 1886</td><td align='left'>Kwang-yuen</td><td align='left'>1889</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><i>Sin-tien-tsï</i></td><td align='left'>1892</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Pao-ning</span></td><td align='left'>1886</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>Ying-shan</td><td align='left'>1898</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><i>Population of whole Province, 67,712,897.</i></td><td align='left'>Kü-hien</td><td align='left'>1898</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Shun-k'ing</span></td><td align='left'>1896</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>Pa-chau</td><td align='left'>1887</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Sui-ting</span></td><td align='left'>1899</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>Wan-hien</td><td align='left'>1888</td></tr> +<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><hr style="width: 100%;" /></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><b>Hu-peh</b>, 1874</td><td align='left'><i>Lao-ho-k'eo</i></td><td align='left'>1887</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><i>Area, 70,450 square miles.</i></td><td align='left'><i>Han-kow</i></td><td align='left'>1889</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_134" id="Page_134">[134]</a></span><i>Population, 34,244,685.</i></td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">I-ch'ang</span></td><td align='left'>1895</td></tr> +<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><hr style="width: 100%;" /></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><b>Gan-hwuy</b>, 1869</td><td align='left'>T'ai-ho</td><td align='left'>1892</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Ving-chau</span></td><td align='left'>1897</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><i>Ch'eng-yang-kwan</i></td><td align='left'>1887</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><i>K'u-ch'eng</i></td><td align='left'>1887</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>Fuh-hing-tsih (Lai-gan)</td><td align='left'>1898</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Luh-gan</span></td><td align='left'>1890</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>GAN-K'ING</td><td align='left'>1869</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><i>Area, 48,461 square miles.</i></td><td align='left'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">Training Home</span></td><td align='center'>...</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><i>Population, 20,596,288.</i></td><td align='left'>Wu-hu</td><td align='left'>1893</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>Kien-p'ing</td><td align='left'>1894</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Ning-kwoh</span></td><td align='left'>1874</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Kwang-teh</span></td><td align='left'>1890</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Ch'i-chau</span></td><td align='left'>1889</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>Kien-teh</td><td align='left'>1892</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Hwuy-chau</span></td><td align='left'>1884</td></tr> +<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><hr style="width: 100%;" /></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><b>Kiang-su</b>, 1854</td><td align='left'>Gan-tung</td><td align='left'>1891</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>Ts'ing-kiang-pu</td><td align='left'>1869</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>Kao-yiu</td><td align='left'>1888</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Yang-chau</span></td><td align='left'>1868</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">Training Home</span></td><td align='center'>...</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Chin-kiang</span></td><td align='left'>1888</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><i>Area, 44,500 square miles.</i></td><td align='left'>Shanghai</td><td align='left'>1854</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><i>Population, 20,905,171.</i></td><td align='left'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">Financial Department</span></td><td align='center'>...</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">Business Department</span></td><td align='center'>...</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">Home</span></td><td align='center'>...</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">Hospital</span></td><td align='center'>...</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">Evangelistic Work</span></td><td align='center'>...</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">Literary Work</span></td><td align='center'>...</td></tr> +<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><hr style="width: 100%;" /></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><b>Yun-nan</b>, 1877</td><td align='left'>Bhâmo (Upper Burmah)</td><td align='left'>1875</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><i>Area, 107,969 square miles.</i></td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Ta-li</span></td><td align='left'>1881</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><i>Population, 11,721,576.</i></td><td align='left'>YUN-NAN</td><td align='left'>1882</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">K'üh-ts'ing</span></td><td align='left'>1889</td></tr> +<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><hr style="width: 100%;" /></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><b>Kwei-chau</b>, 1877</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Kwei-yang</span></td><td align='left'>1877</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Gan-shun</span></td><td align='left'>1888</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><i>Area, 64,554 square miles.</i></td><td align='left'>Tuh-shan</td><td align='left'>1893</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><i>Population, 7,669,181.</i></td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Hing-i</span></td><td align='left'>1891</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><span style="margin-left: 2em;">(Work among Aborigines)</span></td><td align='center'>...</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_135" id="Page_135">[135]</a></span> </td><td align='left'><i>P'ang-hai</i></td><td align='left'>1897</td></tr> +<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><hr style="width: 100%;" /></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><b>Hu-nan</b>, 1875</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Ch'ang-teh</span></td><td align='left'>1898</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><i>Area, 74,320 square miles</i>.</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Shen-chau</span></td><td align='left'>1898</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><i>Population, 21,002,604.</i></td><td align='left'>Ch'a-ling</td><td align='left'>1898</td></tr> +<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><hr style="width: 100%;" /></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><b>Kiang-si</b>, 1869</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Kiu-kiang</span></td><td align='left'>1889</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>Ku-ling Sanatorium</td><td align='left'>1898</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><i>Ta-ku-t'ang</i></td><td align='left'>1873</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Nan-k'ang</span></td><td align='left'>1887</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>Gan-ren</td><td align='left'>1889</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Rao-chau</span></td><td align='left'>1898</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><i>Peh-kan</i></td><td align='left'>1893</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>Kwei-k'i</td><td align='left'>1878</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><i>Shang-ts'ing</i></td><td align='left'>1893</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>Hü-wan</td><td align='left'>1899</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>Ih-yang</td><td align='left'>1890</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><i>Area, 72,176 square miles.</i></td><td align='left'><i>Ho-k'eo</i></td><td align='left'>1878</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><i>Population, 24,534,118.</i></td><td align='left'><i>Yang-k'eo</i></td><td align='left'>1890</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>Kwang-feng</td><td align='left'>1889</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>Yuh-shan</td><td align='left'>1877</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><i>Chang-shu</i></td><td align='left'>1895</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Kui-gan</span></td><td align='left'>1891</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><i>Feng-kang</i></td><td align='left'>1891</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Kan-chau</span></td><td align='left'>1899</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>Sin-feng</td><td align='left'>1899</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Lin-kiang</span></td><td align='left'>1898</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>NAN-CH'ANG</td><td align='left'>1898</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Uen-chau</span> (<i>Itinerating</i>)</td><td align='center'>...</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>Yung-sin</td><td align='left'>1899</td></tr> +<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><hr style="width: 100%;" /></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><b>Cheh-kiang</b>, 1857</td><td align='left'>HANG-CHAU</td><td align='left'>1866</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Shao-hing</span></td><td align='left'>1866</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>Sin-ch'ang</td><td align='left'>1870</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Kiu-chau</span></td><td align='left'>1872</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>Ch'ang-shan</td><td align='left'>1878</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>Lan-k'i</td><td align='left'>1894</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><i>Area, 39,150 square miles</i>.</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Kin-hwa</span></td><td align='left'>1875</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><i>Population, 11,588,692.</i></td><td align='left'>Yung-k'ang</td><td align='left'>1882</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>Tseh-k'i</td><td align='left'>1897</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Ch'u-chau</span></td><td align='left'>1875</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>Lung-ch'uen</td><td align='left'>1894</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>Uin-ho</td><td align='left'>1895</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_136" id="Page_136">[136]</a></span> </td><td align='left'>Song-yang</td><td align='left'>1896</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><i>Siao-mei</i></td><td align='left'>1896</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>Tsin-yun</td><td align='left'>1898</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Ning-p'o</span></td><td align='left'>1857</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>Fung-hwa</td><td align='left'>1866</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>Ning-hai</td><td align='left'>1868</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>T'ien-t'ai</td><td align='left'>1898</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">T'ai-chau</span></td><td align='left'>1867</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>Ling-he District</td><td align='center'>...</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>Hwang-yen</td><td align='left'>1896</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>T'ai-p'ing</td><td align='left'>1898</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Wun-chau</span></td><td align='left'>1867</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>Bing-yae</td><td align='left'>1874</td></tr> +</table><br /><br /><br /></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<a href="images/illus32-big.jpg"><img src="images/illus32.jpg" width="400" height="260" alt="Elder Liu and wife, Kwei-k'i" title="Elder Liu and wife, Kwei-k'i" /></a> +</div> + +<div class='center'><br /><br /><br /><br /><small><i>Printed by</i> <span class="smcap">R. & R. Clark, Limited</span>, <i>Edinburgh.</i></small></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_1_1" id="Footnote_1_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1_1"><span class="label">[1]</span></a> Since the above was written Mr. George Pearse has died.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_2_2" id="Footnote_2_2"></a><a href="#FNanchor_2_2"><span class="label">[2]</span></a> For words and music see the end of this chapter.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_3_3" id="Footnote_3_3"></a><a href="#FNanchor_3_3"><span class="label">[3]</span></a> Isaiah lv. 8, 9.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_4_4" id="Footnote_4_4"></a><a href="#FNanchor_4_4"><span class="label">[4]</span></a> Arranged in three lines from west to east, for easy reference to Map. The dates +in this column in many cases are of itinerations begun.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_5_5" id="Footnote_5_5"></a><a href="#FNanchor_5_5"><span class="label">[5]</span></a> Capitals of Provinces in capital letters; of Prefectures in small capitals; and of +Counties in romans; Market Towns in italics.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_6_6" id="Footnote_6_6"></a><a href="#FNanchor_6_6"><span class="label">[6]</span></a> Areas and populations are from <i>The Statesman's Year Book</i>.</p></div> +</div> +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 250px;"> +<img src="images/backemblem.jpg" width="250" height="258" alt="CIM Emblem" title="CIM Emblem" /> +</div> +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class='tnote'><h3>Transcriber's Notes:</h3> +<p>Certain images are linked to larger versions to aid in closer views of faces or Chinese characters. +The first of these linked images is the <a href="#contents">Lammuir Party</a>. The remaining linked images are found on pages +<a href="#Page_35">35</a>, <a href="#Page_97">97</a>, <a href="#Page_104">104</a>, <a href="#Page_110">110</a>, and <a href="#Page_136">136</a>, as well as the <a href="#map">map</a>.</p> +<p>Inconsistencies in spelling of Chinese names were retained such as Bhâmo and Bhamô.</p> +<p>Corrections made are indicated by dotted lines under the corrections. 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