The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-10-10
MRS. RIGNHART'S
Tibet OBJECTIVE

Editor Advertiser: By your permits
sion / would like to correct state
ment in Wednesdays Advertiser, under
the heading Mrs. Rignhart to Search
in Thibet For Her Husband" I make
this request because the statement is
likely to create a false impression
about a woman whose spirit believe
is that of true missionary and whose
conservation cannot be doubted by any
one who heard her. The following is
the statement referred to:
Mrs. Rijnhart arrived on the steamer
China, en- route to Thibet, the land in
the shadow of the giant Himalayas,
on one of the saddest of missions, that
of finding her husband and visiting the
grave of her little boy whom she bur-
led on the steep slopes of the snow
capped Dang-La mountain. Inciden-
tally, with DR.. Shelton of Nebraska,
she will establish medical and mis-
sionary station in the interior of Thi-
bet"
The correction is this: Mrs. Rignhart
is going to Thibet primarily to estab-
whom she has consecrated her life.
The article in Wednesdays paper was
doubtless written by some one who was
not at the service Monday night at the
Christian church, as some other in
accuracies of a minor sort indicate.
Mrs. Rignhart said nothing in her most
admirable and tender address to in
dictate that she had any hope of finding
a hJIC ha md IN, tIa Two
clearly stated that from reports she
had heard of the murder of a white
man in the vicinity where he disap-
peared she had every reason to believe
her husband was the man murdered.
Every one who heard her will testify
that she said nothing to give the i'm
preston that she was going to Thibet
even incidentally to find her husband.
However, 1 would say, that SO nat
ural would it be for one with her ex-
perience to entertain a faint and I'M
expressed hope that the accounts of
her husbands death might possibly be
false, that a reporter building a story
on the facts of her life in Thibet would
give the romantic coloring to
the account contained in the above
statement. So I am not writing in a
SplliLs puI SiIlply u cOfTSCC
a mistake.
Mrs. Rignhart expects to spend her |
life for the people in whose behalf two |
lives dear to her were given. To her !
this dark land is all the dearer because |
Of her sad experiences there. If per- |
chance she entertains hope that her |
husband still lives in the flesh no one |
will censure her; for she is not the kind |
10 irh |
hat hope at last dies, and lies buried |
n this same dark land with the two |
,ther treasures of her heart. For she
has that brighter hope of seeing her
owed ones clothed upon with that body
hat cannot be destroyed. If perchance
she does find her husband, we will all
ejoice with her.
But the heroism with which she is
clothed by those who have
heard her speak, would, for me- be dis
placed by selfishness, if I could, be per-
uaded that she is going to Thibet
primarily to hunt her husband and in
identally to establish a medical mis-
ionary station as means of support
md base of supply while prosecuting
selfish mission. Our Foreign Board
would not support her on such a basis
- lhdl' <Alu any one WHO hHoWS DOtn
ur Foreign Board and Mrs. Rignhart
ould not be persuaded that they could
,e so deceived, or that she could so
eceive them.
DR.. and Mrs. Shelton, who accompany
Irs. Rignhart, are also under the en-
10y of our Foreign Board, and will
.ssist in establishing a medical work
nd industrial school.
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