The Portland daily press., 1900-10-24
MISSES GOULDA AND MERRILL
More About Their Lives i'm the Mission
Fields of China.

r"With a sadness which no words can
fully express, +" says the Missionary Her
aid in yesterdays issue, 'we have been
forced to believe that 1t has pleased Al
mighty God to permit the martyrdom
of no less than 13 OF the missionaries of
the American board in China-three at
Pao ling Flu and ten In the province OF
Shansi, beside three children.
Three of the missionaries named-the
Rev. George L. Williams, Miss Mary S.
Morrill, and Miss Annie A, Gould-were
born in New England.
Or Miss Morrill, and Miss Gould, the
Rev. G. H. Ewing, himself missionary
In China, writes:
"Our felloW-Worker, Miss Morrill,, was
characterized by utter devotion to her
work, an exceptional realization of the
preciousness of souls and intense sympa
thy for the weak, the tempted and the
suffering. When a task presented itself,
heaven and earth must needs be moved to
allure her away from it. Her physical
condition never entered as factor IN any
question of work to be done. Splitting
headaches and blistering sun hest ssnever
kept her from her round of calls or her
classes with the women. Weary with a
hard days work she yet found strength
for the mental tasks that others summed.
Her energy knew no bounds, and 1t was
born not Of a robust constitution, but of
a determined will utterly conseorated
to the idea of service. She found much
to love in all Chinese, whether in the
most unkempt and dirty ragmutfin she
could entioe into the day school, or in
the stupid, ignorant, selfish, heathen wo-
man who dared approach the foreign
teacher Shs was a most interesting
worker, for the bright and CHEEKY fea-
lures OF the work always impressed her.
Her natural sense of hunor served her
In good stead when her own or others
burdens were unusually heavy. No
Chinese provided he was at once needy
and worthy, ever appealed to her inEvain.
With them and with the school children,
in all their faults and frailities, she was
patient and long suffering to q fault.
AS a missionary on furIough she was
a great success. Her audiences were uni
formIy delighted with her sparkling rem
iniscences, and transfxed by the very
earnestness of the devotion
Miss Gould went to China seven = ears
ago to engage in a girls school work at
Pao Ting Flu Having quick mind,
retentive memory and ready ear, she
gained in a remarkable short time q
working knowledge of Chinese. She
devoted herself with all the earnestness of
her nature to her school work, and was
able at a very early period to relieve her
colleague of It's burdens The compile
mentary nature of the relations between
these two fellow workers was beautiful.
What the one lacked the other was sure
to supply from her fullness. Miss Gould
kept herself in close relations with the
girls in her school, even going so far as
to live with them for periods of time.
She herself taught many class daily.
thus supplementing the work Of the less
experienced native teacher. Many inter-
esting devices for self-help in the school
originated with her. Beneath an exterior
apparently lacking in emotion lay
warm and sensitive heart. A tale of
woe always elicted a ready response of
sympathy and of tokens more substantial.
Her death will be a terrible blow to her
many friends as we'll as to us of the miss
ion.