Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-05-04
DR.. CARRIER is
TOURING ORIENT
TELLS OF WORK IN CHINA
THAT MISSIONARIES
ARE DOING

TO hundreds of our citizens DIR. w.
o. Carriers name stands for fine
Christian service and it is with in
terest that they have been following
his tour of the Orient. DIR. Carrier
spent a part of last summer in Wan
sau, occupying the pulpit at the First
Presbyterian church, and many years
ago was the pastor of the local church.
Following is the interesting letter re-
ceived from him by several friends ths
first of the week:
Manila, Philippine Islands,
March 81, 1922.
Dear Friends:
Travelling is busy occupation and
when one has so much to see and hear
ia so short a time, it is easy to neglect
the writing. We have had and are
having "a wonderful trip. Three weeks
in japan, while too short, was long
enough to see a wonderful land, a
great people and a vast work done
by missions. What is yet to be done
is no means of measuring what has
been done and none are more hope
full than the missionaries themselves.
Thousands come over here and see
nothing of the missionary work be-
cause they do not look for it. One
can tEavel through the Orient on the
finest steamships, and on railways and
stay at as good hotels as any in
America but he does not see the ORR
ent as we do who get back from the
port cities and among the people
where we have to ride in carts arud
on MISCELLANEOUS and where they wear
queue and bind feet, and live as
those untouched by civilization. AT
first these Chinese are repulsive biIt
when you know them you find much
to admine.
We spent many weeks in Korea and
visited many cities and met hundreds
of missionaries and saw their great
work and a field that should have
hundreds of workers where there are
ten. Mrs. Carriers sickness delayed
Rs but enabled us to see the mis-
sionaries' problems as we would not
otherwise. We were interested in
New Peking and Old Peking. We
spent some time there which is the
center Of large missionary work. We
came from there on to Tsinon, 900
miles, Here is Union Christian uni
versity, a medical college and a splen-
4 did hispital and Mrs. Carrier thought
here three weeks after which we came
to TsingiDg where we were with DR.
Seynouris family for two weeks and
III went out to stations while Mrs.
Carrier was getting back her strength
This is the Rev Fields station and
he lives just near DIR. Seymour in the
same compound and in little house
of three rooms. He has his own
III md hn H.
cannot get married because the house
is not large enough and the Board
says it cannot build him a house un-
til he gets married so there seems to
be "a deadlock. 1t seems to me the
Wausau church ,onght to help him
out either by sending him suita BILE
wife or the money for a new house.
think the church has "a surplus of
both and if the facts were well known,
it may be some OF our female mem
beTs might be willing to make the
sacrifice for the first
Mr.. Field is a fine man and it was
very pleasant to be associated with
him for two weeks. I'm the school he
is a prince and the men all love
him and are doing good, sincere hard
work and preparing TO be teachers
and preachers and doctors and bust
ness men. He very much needs $500
for scientific apparatus for teaching
of physics. He has almost none at
all and ii is so important for these
Chinese. / know Of no place more
important to invest that amount.
spoke to the men several times anc
he interpreted and l also spoke at the
government school of 500 men and he
interpreted The president of this
school is a descendent of Confucius.
Field and l went far out into the fam
inc districts where the Yellow river
overf1owed and we saw where villages
were swept away and food and cloth
ing gone. Sad sight. The govern
ment is trying to relieve the situa-
tion and l was asked to help but l
could hardly arrange for it. We made
this trip in rickshas. 1t seemed
strange to be drawn in a cart for a
long trip in the country and ! had
two men, one to pull and one to push.
Then we took two days trip to
Chung, to CONTIGUOUS Grove. We went
part way by train and then miles in
wheelbarrow, Mr.. Field sitting on
one side and ] on the other and two
men-one ahead and the other be-
hind. We made about two and a half
miles an hour. We took our beds
and food and had a good time and
came beck the next day. You see
we had a good chance to get ac-
quainted. He and DR.. Seymour and
were invited by group of Christian
Chinese to a banquet at a Chinese
inn and it was a great feed of twenty
four dishes. We cafe away feeling that
the Wausau church is doing great
work in China
We have visited several stations
since at MISUNDERSTANDING and we're
a week in Shanghai and came from
there here yesterday and are having
a fine time with my old friend, DR..
George w. Wright, president Of the
Union Theological seminary here. II
leave Mrs. Carrier here with Mrs.
Wright and go with him tomorrow
to Cebu 300 miles through the islands
to a meeting Of missionaries. then
back to Canton, China. with head
quarters with A. A. Pratt, son Of J.
X. Pratt, who helped to organize the