The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-06-14
REAPER CLAIMS
YOUNG J. ALLEN
Noted Methodist Missionary Passes
Away in Shanghai, China.
FAME WAS WORLDWIDE
Labored in Foreign Field Nearly Fifty
Years, and Was Highly Honored
by Chinese Government.

A cabegram received in Atlanta
Tuesday by Bishop Gambler of the
Methodist Church from China an
nounced the death of Rev. Young j.
Allen, one of the worlds most noted
missionaries. For more than forty
years he led the missionary endeavor
Of the Orient and rushed forward with
more determination and success than
any man who ever lived to labor in
missionary endeavors.
He was o native Georgian and was
born in Burke county At the time
of his death he was about Y years Of
age. He is survived by large family
"a wife and six children.
Having been'left an orphan early in
boyhood he was educated by an uncle
and graduated at Emory College, in
Oxford, in the class of 1858. The fol-
lowing December he joined the Meth
odist conference at Columbus, was
commissioned as a missionary to Chi
ia, and4 sailed heufollowing spring
for Shanghai. ~
In that city Or. Aliens work was
principally educational in feature.
Though not minimizing the eyangeli-
ear side Of missionary work, his inn
mediate labors were with the upper
class Of the Chinese 1t was he who
originally projected the famous Anglo
Chinese college at Shanghai and who
was largely instrumental in founding
the Society for the Diffusion of Chris
tian and General Knowledge at the
same place Besides his missionary en-
terprise, Dr. Allen was a prolific and
forceful writer. He was the author OF
over one hundred books
lie married Miss Mary Houston Of
south Georgia, having become engage
ed to her while she was student
at Wesleyan college, Macon, and he a
student at Oxford
Edgar Allen, one of the sons, is a
Judge in Tien-Tsin, China, where he
has a connection with the legal de-
partment Of the government. Arthur
II. Allen is in the United States gov
eminent. service at Shanghai.
The daughters are Mrs Mary Tur-
ner Of New York, Misses Alice and
Ethel Allen, who live in Shanghai, and
Mrs. Nellie Loher, wife of mission
ary who also lives in Shanghai.
DR.. Allen was last in America in
1906, when he attended The general
conference of the Southern Method
lists at Birmingham, Ala. lie also
left the empire as delegate to the
last ecumenical conference at Lon
don.
DR.. Aliens influence in China was
parallel to that Of native born mobiles.
He was in fact created a mandarin by
the emperor, an honor to a foreigner
which is perhaps solitary in its
uniqueness. apd which reflects the
confidence IN which the government
and the people held him. It was the
upper classes that Dr. Allen Influenced
througf his personal charm and his
mastery TRANSACTIONS Of native and
English classics. No single missionary
factor has been Of greater consequence
in bringing about the present trans
formed conditions in the far east
than the Society for the Diffusion of
Christian and General knowledge A
number Of these books he translated
for the Chinese government.
OF an intellect and sympathy exceed
ingly broad, the great missionary ed
ucator found no subject of govern.
ment, economies, indus rialism or SO.
GEOLOGY beyond his grasp. lie was one
OF historys deftest interpreters be.
tween the peoples Of the east and
those Of the west Not only was he
valued as a scholar, but as a diplomat
end statesman as well.