Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-09-16

manent meeting place for the as
sociation.
The association will meet next
year with Antioch on Wedu esday
and Thursday before the second
Sunday in September.
Interesting Letter Received by
Mrs. Robert H. Minas From
Rev. John Lake.
Ny dear Aunt:
Letters from you
and Uncle aid host of friends,
expressing sympathy for me IN
my great sorrow, have remained
unanswered, rot because | did not
appreciate them-they went to my
heart of hearts, all Of them, aud
helped me-but / have been sick.
Four weeks ago to-day I took my
bed, though l had been sick for
good while then, ever Eince dear
Pearl was taken from me. n fact,
L had had several attacks OF The
stomach and bowel trouble we so
much dread in these tropical sum-
mers. the disease that cost her
her life. And Low ] am here in
the hospital where she passed
away-lu sight of the house Cor
The wreck OF it) where we had
planned to spend part of the
summer restiag-and nearer still
to the cemetery where she lies
sleeping.
For five weeks after ber death
was in the same house and un-'
der the care of DR.. Hayes of our
Mission, or DR.. Swan, the bead of
the hospi,alat Captou, except for
q few days at the compound at
Canton. While there 1 wrote
letter to MIR Sheppard for the
Edgefeld Baptist Association at
Mountain Greek, in reply TO the
message sent me by the last as
sociatiou meeting. l thought whea
[ wrote that | should have been
we'll now, but o relapse made it
necessary for me 10 be brought to
the hospital.
I am dressed and sitting up to-
day for the first time and expact
to be we'll enough to return to
Canton and begin work again
next week or the week after. 1t
has been a dreary time here, in
the place balloIed by such tender
but sad memories, but God and
she have seemed with me always,
and l have felt too that the
prayers of all VINO had written to
me and of many more have been
sustaining me. / feel closer to God
than ever before. [ have no notion
of giving up the work of course,
and I believe I shall be upheld
It'll God calls me to higher service
lin heaven-there certainly is no
higher service on earth than this
work of teaching the beathen to
love God.
Last Monday night the worst
typhoon that has been known out
here tore part of the roof off the
hospital building, throwing some
of the debris through the floor of
the second story and onto my bed
and in my face as lay sick in the
mems ward on the first floor. 1t
did other damage to this splendid
new building and wrecked many
houses and sunk many boats in
and near Hong Kong, causing the
death of many hundreds if not
thousands. A similar one here
two years ago is supposed to have
killed two thousand people. This
time we had telegraphic warning,
which saved thousands of lives.
In the former one / was Oh
river boat, about hundred miles
from here and had to remain on
the boat for twenty-four hours be-
fore the boat would dare to 60 on.
The boat itself was injured some,
what. Episcopal Bishop Hoare, as
you may remember was also on
missionary journey near Hong
Kong at the time and his boat WAS
capsized and his body never re-
covered. So you see what kind Of
storms we have out here.
A few miles from Hong Kong,
which, as you know, is au island
in the Pacific, lis another island
called Cheung Chow. On that
several missionaries are resting
during the hottest weather: Some
of their homes were wrecked
Monday night, including the one
in which dear Pearl and I had
planned to be at this time and
in which / would have been but
that I had to come to the nospi-
tai. DR.. and Mrs. Hayes escaped
with their lives. 1 guess the bed
room furniture and all of my
summer clothing that 1 left there
are ruined. haven't heard.
Well, in this land of tropical
diseases, typhoons, boxers, rebel
lions, Asiatic cholera, bubonic