Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-12

ON THE TRAIL OF THE
AMERICAN MISSIONARY

remarkably prosperous churches That at
the latter place is quite self-supporting,
ana IL has percentage of educated,
prominent citizens far beyond the proper
Ion existing in the city at large, thus dis
proving the charge that only the lower
classes enter the church One does not
meet in the homeland many churches
showing a more generally vigorous,
healthy and active life than this one Quite
strong Christian community now clus-
tiers about 1t, although this region was
sorely ravaged by the Boxers and the al
he'd troops. In this American board COM
pound, which Is quite a close second to the
Methodist compound at Picking, in extent
and impressiveness, although different in
berg situated outside of city, a.y,sitor
fnds in addition to Miss Chaplin, who was
hospital work in the Picking siege, and Rev.
DIR. NJ. Williams, who led the party Of
missionary fugitives from the Boxers 1000
miles across Mongolia, the lovable vet
suggest that the best way to keep young
and happy is to go to the foreign mission
field
5 Down In Pao-Ting-fu the Martyrs Me
morial Church is worthy of a visit, h1v-
ing beside It the graves OF twe1ty-siy mar
tyrs, marked by simple headstones,. these
OF the missionaries being no different from
me chinese. Here lie the bodies of DR..
Howard Taylor and Horace Tracy ,Pitkin
The Presbyterian martyrs are buried on
the other side of the city. This is an in
dependent congregational organization Of
natives, who not only support and direct
their own work, but maintain various phil
anthropic enterprises besides. The snut-
standing personality in Pao-Ting-fu Is Rev
Dr. J. W. Lowrie of the Presby terrain. mis-
sion, the man who saved the city from de-
struction by the allies. Although his own
friends and comrades, as we'll as Ms con-
Verts, had been massacred, he prevailed
upon the military expedition which he
guided to spare the city, with the result
that he Is held in highest honor by the
Chinese. I found his church full Of at
tentive hearers. many soldiers being among
the number. DR.. Lowries mother, who
came to China more than fifty years ago,
Is still working at Pao-Ting-fu. Here is
fine giffs' school, conducted by Mss Grace
Newton, and two hospitals. 1t was spec
through a crowd of dispensary patients at
the rate OF more than one a minute in
Guiding minor operations.
From Pao-Ting-fu and Tung Chow timer
ating is done out into the surrounding coun-
try. as also from Picking. Reverting to the
capital itself, word should be spoken con-
corning the weekly union service for Eng
lish-speaking persons in the Congregational
These are conducted by various missiona-
ries. and managed, l believe by Rev. DR..
w. S. Ament, the dominant personality of
American board mission here. There isl a
weekly Church of England service in the
British legation chapel. There are also
German and French churches
The army and navy department of the
International Young Mems Christian AS
ISOLATION maintains an association for the
legation guards, but the general impression
seems to be that 1t rather misses the mark
visited it three times when the American
marines were off duty, but 1 never saw
soldier about the building.
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All the mission compounds In Picking are
imposing, but most impressive is that of the
Northern Methodist Episcopal Mission, con-
cededly the finest in China. In addition to
the large buildings of the boys school-or
Picking University as it Is called-and of
the girls school, there are the residences
of the missionaries and the large church.
The entire grounds are said to be larger than
any of the extensive legation grounds, on