The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-27
Miss Lois Davie.

I talked of the future, and as they talk ed, the words that would not be kept
 back were spoken. They made the
 vows which bind eternAlly.
 Two things for the time demanded that they should not marry. Miss Da- 1 vie's education was as yet incomplete,
 and the Reverend Napier's future was
 uncertain. A short time after their
 engagement, he was called to take
 charge of the South Side Baptist
 church, in Cloverdale, and a little over | year. he crossed his Rubicon and ! determined to enter the missionary | field.
 Then came a crucial moment in the | affairs of the young lovers. For a time | 1t was debated whether or not the we'd ding should take place before the mis- sionary set out for the Orient At last | 1t was decided to wait a year and then when he should be settled in his work | his fiance should follow. That time has now come. The tears of parting with her parents have been passed. This morning Miss Davie leaves MontEom- i cry and tomorrow she will bid fare well to the boundary of her native State for-well. for years to come From Nashville Miss Davie will be
 accompanied on her long trip by Rev.
 and Mrs. J. w. McCollum, who are | also bound for the missionary field | The departure will be made from Se- | attle, Wash. on March IF, on board the | staunch steamer Dakota.
 i Simultaneously with her departure | from the United States the bridegroom
 will set out from Chen Chow, east
 ward bound Descending the valley of
 the Yellow River. he will take passage
 for the islands of Japan. And thus, | one from the east, and the other from | the west, each hastening to the bridal
 feast. they will draw together, until the
 meeting in the foreign port of Naga-
 saki. There, in the land of the brown | Japanese, their courses will be ended From then on there will he but one
 pathway. which the feet of both will | tread. The minister will consNmmate the union. and when he says what God | hath joined together let no man put | asunder" he will but complete the
 promise made two years ago beneath the skies of Alabama.
 The honeymoon will be another bright page in the beautiful romance. One thousand miles as the bird flies, fifteen hundred over the route they will have | to pursue, the missionary will take hls | bride. Across the moonlit waters of the Yellow Sea they will go, and up the broad current of the turbid Yang tse-Kiang. New sights and strange will greet the new-made bride. Chi
 nese sailors, with broad straw hats, | latten rigged vessels with low-cut
 prows and slanting rigging, and when the boat lands them safe in China, the | old pagodas, tue quaint little huts of | the laborers and the men and women at work in the rico fields .-- Leaving the river at Chiukiang.
 small town near Nankin, they will take
 smaller boat up the Grand Canal to
 Kwangau. and from there ascend the
 River Hwai. through smiling fields to Shinkiu. From there 1t is but short
 trip of forty miles across the country
 to Cheng Chow fin Honan province.
 where the members of the little band
 of workers will welcome their new found sister.
 The days that are to follow will be
 busy ones. First the newcomer must learn the Chinese language. When
 this Is mastered, comes the work of
 teaching the women and little children.
 Confucianism. Buddhism. Taoism and
 the teachings of Mohammed must be
 replaced. and in their stead the gospel of the new Christ substituted. the reli- zion which the white people from be- yond the seas have come to tell.
 And so the work will go on. The yearning of the young girl to teach the precepts of her youth will be sat- isfed. The longing of the lone mis- sionary will be fulfilled. Love will have triumphed over distance. and duty will have won over all obstacles. Far away from home and the associations of their youth, the workers will labor in the vineyard Cut off from the rest of the world. they will have each oth- CT. Self-exiled, they will not feel be- yond the pale. Longing for the life that was. will be overcome by the con sciousness of the life that will bc Regret will have no place for in It's stead will be the inspiring motto first uttered by the woman of Moab:
 Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. Where thou diest I will die, and there will I be buried"
 The recent visit of the Prince of Wales to Burma has attracted notice to the wonderfully rapid growth In size