Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-09-28
In Far Away China.
By A Wayfarer.


the largest city on the continent of
Asia-is a clean, sensible, progress
i've, attractive Christian Chinese gen.
tleran, a graduate of one of the
big American universities, and with
several years of postgraduate work
to his credit. Like his mother, he and
his wife are members of the Macao
Baptist church.
Mayor Sun and his wife live in the
part of Conton City known as Tung
Shan meaning "East Hill" Here at
Tung Shan, a great and growing SUI
burb has grown up around u Bap-
fist compound (campus). We Ameri-
lean Southern Baptist missionaries
were the first to settle here, having
moved from our cramped quarters
further in the city, so that our work
could expand. And how it has ex-
banded! With rickshas, and now even
automobiles, running past our doors,
and ON through the crowded and more
crowded thoroughfares of the me-
%tropolis. Tung Shan that a dozen
years ago was well outside of the
city, is now a most important part
of the city's life; and right in the
center of things are our Baptist theo-
logical seminary, boys and girls
academies and feeders of lower
grade down tc kindergarten and BIZ
BILE and training schools, schools for
the blind, and orphanage, with about
fifteen hundred students-a busy
Baptist campus. Then right here at
Tung Shan are the Baptist hospital
for these two Southern provinces
(states) and the China Baptist Pub
LEGATION Society for all China. Here
millions of pages of Christian lit
erature in the Chinese language are
printed every month, from the New
Testament down to the simplest sheet
tracts. Here, from all over South
China, come our Baptist brethren and
sisters and their sons and daughters
to be trained for kingdom work and,
in increasing numbers, come the sick
for healing.
Here at Tung Shan meet almost
every year the Baptist Association
of South China, and an Association
within that, of the Baptists of a large
territory. Here meets annually the
Woman's Missionary Union of South
China, and also our Bible Womans'
Conference. Here, three times a year
we hold our preachers institute. The
commandments Of the different
schools take up more than a week at
the end of every spring term. Oh,
this is a busy place, and it is always
a busy time.
Here at Tung Shan live Jul Bap-
fist mayor and his wife. 1 could
throw a stone from u yard
into his-but I never do! Instead of
that, he sends me regularly the New
York Independent and other Ameri-
can publications of the best type,
and I always send him in return The
Baptist Courier or the Christian In
dex or some other religious periodical
or book. He finished reading the
copy of Trumbull's "Anthony Com
stock" (Which my wife gave me for
a Christmas presently a few days be-
fore his city government issued the
first warning I have yer seen in a
Chinese newspaper against obscene
pictures and printed matter. He has
just finished reading also a book on
Christianity and Reform, given me
by our erstwhile mayor of Charles
ton, S. G., Maj. TT. Hyde-the may
or of Canton, China, reading a book
from the mayor of Charleston, S. c.
both Baptists.
At the South Carolina State Con-
vention in Bennettsville, I had the
pleasure of introducing a brilliant
young Chinese gentleman, born and
educated in New York, whom I had
helped to ordain to the Baptist minis
try in Canton. AS I mentioned in a
letter some time ago, our friend. Rev.
Frank w. Lee, is pastor of a church
here in the city, president of our
boys acadamy, editor of a daily
newspaper that stands for the right,
and Commissioner for Foreign Aft
fairs of this province (state) of. thir-
ty million people! I could throw a