The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-12-06
cIRcLED THE EARTH
MRS. MIND TALKS INTER ESTTNGLY
OF HER WORK In FOREIGN
MISSIONS.
VISITED ORIENTAL FIELDS
PROGRESS OF CHRISTIANITY IN
CHINA AND INDIA RE
VIEWED.
HER IMPRESSION OF Ii HUNG.
the Aged Traveller "a Re-
ception.

tanning for few days a most distin-
| guished traveller, a lady who has
reached a most ripe old age, being in
] the neighborhood of four score, but
nevertheless having rugged health and
/ being more active and young in spirit
than most people at half that age. The
! lady is Mrs. Mary C. Mind, the mother
| of j. Newton Mind, of this city, and
a cousin of Bishop Mind, of the Metho-
/ dist church. Mrs. Mind is one of the
! dearest and kindliest old ladies that
could be Imagined. She has an exceed
ingly pleasant manner and was perfect
ly willing to grant the G 0 b e man
an interview
She arrived in the city yesterday af-
ternoon and went Immediately to the
home of her son. Later in the day she
went to st. Paul, and this evening will
| speak at the First church, while to-
morrow afternoon a reception will be
rendered her by the ladies of the Meth
odist foreign missions societies Of the
two cities at the Wesley church, Grant
street and First avenue south. She
tells of her travels as follows:
Il have returned to America after an
absence of over two years. glad to get
back yet sorry that 1 could not have
|
ing the missions Of the Methodist
church. This has been my object, and
in doing SO have ridden in everything
from a Sedan chair to an elephant,
Travelled over $4,000 miles and spoken
about the Christ to about $4,000 people,
I left my home in Detroit, Mich, on
May H. 1894, with Bishop Mind and his
family. We left San Francisco a few
days after, taking the Pacific Mail
steamers for Yokohama, which city
We reached on June T. The next four
months l spent in visiting the missions
| in Japan, travelling from one end of the
country to the other, taking in the ex-
| IRENE southern part and to the north
ern part at Hanatate. Japan is a de-
| lightful country, the people are very
progressive and are Of the oriental ma
tons the 'Frenchy' people. They ere
very polite and courteous, with a ma
ture that is usually impulsive
I'VE left Nagasaki for China, arriving
at Shanghai Nov. Z, of the fall 1 left
the United States. [ was in China for
about one year. 1t was during the
time Of the China-Japanese war, and
must say that the people of the United
States know more about what was be-
ing done in that war than we did. Dur
ing the time that I was at Flu Chu we
were not allowed to go into the country
except by permission of the consul,
from whom a passport was necessary
and then the number of times we could
go out were also limited From Shang-
hal my son and daughter, Mr. and Mrs
Lacy, and myself took trip up the
Yangtsze Kiang~river for about 800
miles. We stopped at the various mis-
sions along the river, spending a few
hours at each, or possibly a couple of
days. The
RIVERS ARE THE HIGHWAYS
of China and on this river the means
OF transportation are unusually good
for such country. The steamers
were numerous, and we could stop at
one mission for few hours and then
take another boat. These boats are
captained by natives, Englishmen or
Americans All of the cities along the.
river were visited, including the old
capital Nankin The end of our trip
was at Hwang Chau, and we then re-
turned to Shanghai after four or five
weeks on the trip.
About 1,500 miles beyond Hwang
Chau is the mission place of the Mrs.
Lewis WShe, L believe, gave a talk be-
fore the Womens Foreign Mission
society quite recently. She is one of
the best and hardest working women
in the missionary field. She has been
through all kinds of trouble being
driven out of the country by riot and
been shipwrecked in the rapids of the
river. Her station is over 2,oO0 miles
from the coast and in the furthest
and widest part of China. it taking
over six weeks to make the trip.
, From Shanghai we went to the
Lacys home at Flu Chau in the PROV
ince of Fukin This city is one of the
: largest in China, having about 1, 400, OGO
l people. 1t is a great mission field and
we have our largest Chinese mission
in that city. An idea can be formed OF
its age from the wonderful bridge
which is called the Bridge of
TEN THOUSAND AGES