The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1920-07-29
INTERESTING LETTER TO THE
GRIT-ADVOCATE FROM CHINA

Sianfu, She, China, June 7th, 1SzO
To the Editor and Readers OF the
Julesburg Advocate:
As our old friend The Grit-Advo-
cate is continuing to visit US in this
remote part Of the world, feel that
must now send you few lines to
express my gratitude for these vis1ts
and the pleasure it is to US mere 70
be able to know what is gong on
among you At home.
1t will soon be year since l wrote
last. We were then at klkungshao,
in the Province of Honan, and had not
reached our destination. We therefore
were glad when the time came for US
to proceed on our way to this place.
There would be much to say about
our stay on the mountain during the
hot summer months among the great
number of missionaries and others,
who on those mountain tops escaped
the terrible heat and gathered strength
for their future work, but l will limit
myself to only mention something OF
interest to our own country. There
were a great number of Americans
there which could best be seen on the
Fourth of 6uly the day on which our
nation shows its colors and feelings
in many ways. l heard an English
man say that George Washington was
the greatest rebel England ever pro
duced as he was standing by and
looking at what was going on, but
have to confess that on hearing this
! came very close to forgetting that
| was a missionary and Christian
and the fact that our great nation
had just poured out good part Of
its strength to help these our English
brethren out of their narrow escape
in the war did not make my feelings
any softer, but the mind of Christ
ianity conquered 20 that ! could in
dure the insult, but this caused me
to reflect on how 50 many of our
ministers at home during the war
proclaimed that the feelings Of Chris
tianity and patriotism sprang from
the same scource and that the soldier
who died in the war was . good soldier
of Jesus Christ and would surely be
acknowledged by Him. Had that been
SO, am sure my English brother
who spoke those words would have
received different handshake from
me than he did. after l had heard
him utter those words. Love your
enemies is the mind of Christ, but
the mind of patriotism is to subdue
them.
Well. we have the right to love
our country and our people and it
may be that this tolerable kind of
patriotism caused me to prefer the
Americans both among the mission
aries and the noted speakers who Wis
tied us at kikungshau during the sum-
mer. Among the latter DR.. TORY
of Los Aangeles, Cal, made the best
impression.
Towards the later part of August,
just as the plague of cholera with
ands of the natives in the territory
we had to pass through, we said
farewell to kikungshAu and proceeded
on our journey. Eat not, touch not,
do not come near, were Commands of
train towards the north. At Chen
chow we escaped the danger of staying
among the people and expose our
selves to the infection, by staying
over night at the home of an American
missionary, who although away from
his home had arranged for our stay |
there. Early next morning we had
quite an experience in checking our
baggage as we took the train on
another line running towards the west. |
1 said checking, but there was no
checking about it. We only had to
get it weighed and pay for the over
weight, but no cheeks were given, but
we had to see to it that we got it
on the baggage car ourselves and
there one of US had to watch it on
the way too, for the company took no
for it, in the baggage
car we found some English missionary
ladies, who stayed all the time in the
baggage car, having travelled that way
several times. They knew all about
it and knew that they could save
thereby, as they only paid at
the fourth class rate when staying
all the time in the baggage car, and
khnro fha1- had To sfav To lnok after