News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1906-01-31
A Letter From china
Dear Homeland Friends:

Your letter came like breath from
the dear, old Green Mountains. |
cannot express to you the Joy that
filed my henrt at the thought of re-
ceiving support from those | know
and love, and who love me in return,
and above tbir, that they, too, are
to have pa in this great work
which is so near the Masters heart.
And Their when the letter came from
he home committee saving that you
we're sending them $66 90 toward
my support my heart was filed with
praise to God t at He had put it in
to- our b arts TO generously
may God richly bless you everyone.
These are trouhloUs times in South
China; doubtless you learned long
ago of the massacre of five mission
aries which occurred in this very
pravnce. Two OF these missionaries
had reached their station for work,
from America, just the day previous.
1t was truly a short term Of service
for the Master 10 China but we be-
the seed of the church
The hatred of the foreigner In the
Chinese heart is greatly infamed,
toward the American, because the
United States government has not
thought best to admit the Chinese
nromiscuously land still more in-
f1amed because the merchant and
student class have received rough
treatment and discourtesy at the
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United States. The Chinese mind
does not discriminate between the
missionary and the tradesman, and
cOnsf quently they regard both as
their enemies until they become con-
vinced, one by one, that those who
are constrained by the love of God,
have really come to do them good,
and can point them to One able to
lift them from their awful darkness
and superstition and misery. 1t Is
the chinese OF South China who have
been coming to the United States, so
1t is here that the feeling is most
bitter. Many are boycotting all
American goods Two men in this
city were stoned for selling American
goods. II is but a step from Amer
lean goods to the Americans them
selves. So we feel we need to walk
softly with God these DAYS. Our
table boy entered into the feeling
against the foreigners, and because
something did not go to please him
he put poison Connecting like croton
Oily in our br4aktast food. Five of
our ia mi'y ate Of it and all became
very i'll almost Immediately. 4 physi-
clan YVES sent for and with the use of
the stomach pump and other RENE
dies and earnest prayers to God there
were no serions results. praise God
that "none of these things move me-"
We have the assurance that we are
in our Fathers keeping and that God
will work. These things only show
how greatly these people need the
Lord Jesus. We have been fearful =
that this feeling would lessen our
crowds at the chapel, but it has not,
and souls are being saved. We have
asked God to keep open for us "a
door OF nttarance." There are hungry
souls 10 China, one woman after hear
ing Mrs. Todd tell of the true God
aud His Son from Heaven said to her
friends, "There, didn't tell you there
was another God? | knew there must
be for orr Gods have never helped US
or satisfied u.s." Another old couple
walked many miles to our chapel for
they had beard of this doctrine"
and they had alrea 1y discarded their
gods OF wood and stone though they
had suffered great persecution from
their friends for so doing, but they
felt they could no longer worship
them, even before they knew of the
true God.
We have in our home now a poor
Australian woman who married
Chinese and became addicted to
opium, until even her bus
band rejected her and she was left
witt her little three year old girl to
beg on the streets, staying with this
little child, each night, in an opium
den. She grew SO weak in body that
she was almost helpless, AID then we
we're able to persuade her to come
here. We are making mother and
child as comfortable as possible and
are praying that God will save her
and through. Please Join
your prayers with ours. Ihave known
our God to save just as desperate
cases in the missions at home. Moth
ing is impossible with God" Our
little Chinese orphan-girl, "Grace."
or "a Yam" in Chinese, is now three
months old aud very cunning and
sweet. / am not yet able to speak
freely in this difficult language. The
eleven tones are a great hinderance.
Often a word is exactly the same as a
word used for something entirely
except that there is a shade
Of difference in the tone. l told my
Chinese dentist the other day, 81 no
longer have sugar in my tooth,"I
had intended to say, II no longer
nave pain in my TOOTH" One mis-
sionary told his cook to prepare q
steamboat for dinner. We asked the
table boy for vinegar as we supposed,
5he other day at dinner, but dis
covered we had asked him to bring a
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