The Newtown bee., 1904-09-09
A GREETING FROM CHINA.
REV w. L.. BEARD OF FOOCHOw, CHINA,
 SPEAKS IN AN INTERESTING WAY.

You may think that one so young aS
 will have no "reminiscences connecoed connected with the town of Huntlng-
 in this town, and had this been re-
 peated more often it would have made
 a better man of me. Huntington has
 sent her representatives into all parts
 of this country. She has them in New
 York and Brooklyn and in the West.
 She first reared them tall and 6talWArt.
 with sound minds in vigorous bodies Q
 live as honorable citizens Of the grand
 est country on the earth and then to help in solving all the problems tnAt continually face the country ID neI
 rapid growth and development as Mnncn bring to her increased responsibility, already becoming worldwide. One Of the questions most often asked me Is: Are you going back to Chinap "Ye6, I am going back in the fall" Then the next question almost sure to follow is: "What do you want to go back there for. Is not there enough eo DO
 here?" Certainly there is enough tQ here but there are also suWclenN
 number of good people here 10 % tt. You are continually sending men to men do not as Q whole falEly represent ! our Christian civilization. The town I 1oi,Huntington ought to send It least
 OnE man to 20 and live in China to
 Represent to the Chinese what ts best
 in our civilization. It is for this pur-
 pose that am going back to China,
 to attempt to show the Chinese the
 best of our Christian civilization. But
 this should net aPgesl !SS 1S Sa fns1s S:1s r
 sns sentative in G6ins- Our in-
 roQfl ,oha ve aaauu1ed ass6h nfouOFfiOn8
 1Sstfls depend for no smaA paFt M ;. ass VI. rity upon foreign markef&. ,L r pcospe largest market in t6s jh. 'ns is th> She looks to other vor. W ooaay ,ctically all her manu- ,oun t.,Ss S .rtt .9. R In 1897 we sent to actu: e1 a soG1caes aGn a" of wheat flour. Ter S1, VhVO wGfA ed through the r.. rxox v :a - fgo on - Over in the haI. 9Sf 99e1 l:S Yoo et 1one, s: .i s.;nyy sny ,teamer a, 6et Provisions = Jnet out on her. for the trial tr... back of her Jay the "Delaware. sister ship, nd still in tho dock. not vet iaunched Ras third ship of ebout the same size. These three steamers Were built to carry American Wheat -four from the 0esteEn part of the United States to Chtna: This is only one OI our 0ApOI0s 4A0 xUCU00OG1y08s cars, rails and s[eepe0 for tho Failrood through MAnchufia came from the United States. Cotton cloth, kerosene oil and a thousand different articles of our manufacture 9re findings market in China. You call mo . missionary. 1 am Q business agent. for these goods that we are sending over to China d. ways follow, never proceed the misBion- ary. He is the only representative of this country that goes back into the from the port cities to reside. He is always the advance agent who our ware. Next year when you meet here shall be in China, but 1'll think of you or rather I'll dream of you, for as you are gathered here, I shall be sleeping. trust you will com plete the organization that will insure the perpetuati0n of these Old Home gatherings They will do good to those who have gone from the old town to other parts who can 0CcaAOnally come back, they will do good to those who have gone and cannot come, they will do good to those who remain in the town, because aS we meet old friends here, and as we think of old time events, pleasant memories are sure to come that will increase the sunshine in our lives. Then there was a certain simplicity, certain firmness and fixedne6S of character in the generations past, that 1t will do us all good to rub up against once year.