The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-01-17
FIRST MEETING HELD
Great Missionaries Tell of
Their Work in China.
DR.. and Mrs Taylor Made Addresses Of Won
derfuI Power Last
Night


strong personalityt and both are per-
meated by sense of the greatness Of
their mission.
DR.. Taylor's voice is one that catches
1t is not a brogue, but there is soft
swinging cadence, almost blur in it
that holds you, as you look up into his
smiling face.
Mrs. Taylor is a brunette of a striking
type, while her husband is blonde
Her face is good to look upon, and as she
talks her eyes grow luminous and the
deep hearted intenseness of the woman
shows in countenance and voice. She is
eloquent, and the striking periods in
her speech are intensified by the beauti-
full sound of her voice like the tinkle of
far away bells. She is a mistress in the
art of pathetic word paintings.
A large and appreciative audience as
sembled last night at the Edenton Street
Methodist church to hear the renowned
Missionaries, DR.. and Mrs. Howard Tay-
lor. of the China Inland Mission, who
are now visiting seventeen of the most
important cities in the South.
After an excellent song by the fine
choir of the church. Rev DIR. Eugene
Daniel offered a prayer of great sweet
ness. This was followed by short talk
from Rev. j. E. McCulloch concerning
some valuable books and papers bearing
upon the mission work, some of those
hpiner the work of DIR TaylOr.
DR.. Taylor prefaced his address by
speaking enthusiastically of the charm
ing hospitality Of the South saying that
he and Mrs. Taylor felt as their visits
were drawing to a close that the best
had been reserved for the last
And now" said DR.. Taylor II want
to remind you of the great commission
which Christ gave his disciples when he
was leaving them, the command to evan
gelize the world. If we don't believe in
Foreign Missions we are disloyal to
Christ. We are to be His witnesses at
home, in our own country and then to
the uttermost parts of the earth. We
cannot all go to foreign lands, but we
can all have some part in fulfilling this
great commission.
There is wonderful power in prayer.
We can pray. We don't take collections
in the China Inland Mission, but we do
ask for your prayers.
and now / want you to come with me
in thought to China That great ancient
empire as you know is the largest coun-
try in the world. Great as the country
is the people are still greater, being one
quarter of the whole population of the
world, and whatever we may think of
that type, the Creator must have thought
a good deal of it, as He has SO many of
them. Is this fact without significance?
The Chinese are people of grit,
character and business enterprise. /
don't wonder that nations are afraid of
them. When China begins to move she
will move the world May God grant it
may be Christian China.
Il want to tell you what kind of Chris
tians these people make. Everyone
knows about their heroism during the
Boxer troubles. In the beginning of
these prosecutions some Boxer soldiers
went to the house of a Chinese Chris
tian and found only the old grandmother
there. They showed her the idol they
had brought and said Hurry up, old
lady and worship this idol. We've come
this foreign devil religan and go back
to the faith of your ancestors. If you
don't burn this incense pretty quick
we'll chop your hands off.
1.-THE old lady was terribly frightened
but she faced those soldiers and said:
you may chop my hands off or you may
chop my head off, but you can't make me
deny the Lord Jesus Christ who died
for me-"
MRS. TAYLOR'S MESSAGE.
Mrs Taylor, who spoke next, said:f
Dear friends: There are many forms
of missionary work, but the only one
that counts is witness about the living
Christ. That is what China needs and
that is what we go there to do.
I'VE go into the far interior of that
great country, where people have never
heard of Christ. AS soon as we reach
Shanghai we put on the native Chinese
dress, which is necessary for work in
the interior as the people have a very
strong feeling against anything foreign,
and then we go inland by carts, or mule
filters or wheel barrows, two, three,
four, eight months journey from the
coast. All along the way we meet with
cfcWuS OI peOplS duu nave pieuly VI up
portunity of witnessing for the living
Christ.
when we were married we took our
wedding journey on double wheel bar
row for three months right through the
heart of China. l remember on that
journey coming to little town called
Gogo, and there found company of in
telligent, interesting women who
crowded around to hear what we
had to say. l began to tell them about
the gospel. What" they said las new
religion, We're all religious women here,
we want to hear about it, 81 told them
about the God who loves us and who can
forgive our sins and they listened so
eagerly and then the time came for us
to go, and the Barrow Men kept calling
ne What they said, you're not going,
Why we've never heard these things be-
fore and we want to hear more. You
can't be going away"
What opportunities to preach the Cos
rel and how ready the people are to re-
ceive it.
my husband and / were the fiji st &c
live and tell of Jesus in two great cities
in the province of Honan, and we had
many openings to the hearts of the peo-
ple through the medical work. They are