page_title: William Edgar Geil
section_title: Yankee on the Yangzte ( Mid 1902 – early 1903)
hierarchical_section_title: William Edgar Geil / The Great World Wide Tour / Yankee on the Yangzte ( Mid 1902 – early 1903)
caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: yankeeonyangtzeb00geil (find matches) Title: A Yankee on the Yangtze&#160;: being a narrative of a journey from Shanghai through the central kingdom to Burma Year: 1904 (1900s) Authors: Geil, William Edgar, 1865-1925 Subjects: China -- Description and travel Yangtze River (China) Publisher: London&#160;: Hodder and Stoughton Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: MSN View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: s to have more vitality&#160;; it bowed beforethe storm, and arose with new vigour when the flashhad spent itself. Men like Woodbridge have won theconfidence of officials&#160;; natives are themselves spreadingChristianity. The third failure is not yet. Whyshould there be a third failure&#160;? Jesus of Nazarethwas an Asiatic, and Asiatics ought to understand Himbetter than we do. If they will, then will East andWest understand one another better, and no yellowperil need be feared.But the hope for Peace upon earth, Goodwill among menis likely to be idle unless the nations accept Him whowas born at Bethlehem, as their Saviour, their Ideal,their Lord. WILLIAM EDGAR GEIL.doylestown, pennsylvania,United States of America. ^4 9*4 tie 2fc Published Weekl_ $t m m &amp; i © =F. ft «*S 9r * Aft # M * *^ £ g «&#160;* lj A ft #. r £ s? * J t&#160;% £ # i4 8§*&amp; m Mr: f *.* #.J # J£ m ^ 8 =s «&#160;a S # • - ;in ffl -&#160;; # # it i«&#160;fi. tfc&gt; IS. w 8 &lt;n #^ ^ ^ cil;«. w. - 69 JS ffi ^ m wt * M # a ss. n.#&#160;% m Text Appearing After Image: 5fli *.**,* ********.*** ************ lilii*.i.lt tiliHtlUJtl. HiiliUiiiltili = -f ~ I - + ^ «i; £ IK ffl * fcft a * «&#160;iif a sg * s;t a st» «H Hi I ,*! 4 £ Pi! til ft it i 6? d =8 a ■^i tue *&#160;» mi «e na**■ a #-Al 8 * ffi «■ * is * wj «** ^M? tft ± «&#160;W * * g J. HU «SB?, ffi «&#160;S3 ffi M * H T lil Hi)-4— IS S3, +1S6 8 U 9? El -^- &amp; *e a »itt S -+*««&#160;23C 7-:5tSS±ra: vv c**,ST,AN ,Nr^ \3T ^ c ra ir m as? &amp; m w C(*. A CHURCH AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 4&amp; ft r # n w ?Bsa» gjLj *P**BfST?iR»ffi*M *P «*ttir.-t sta S3 IRA? &amp; 9X8 *M?H ft «&#160;ns f -«&#160;ge ¥ R(ft «&#160;Published Weekly by the Presbyterian Missions in China. ;Ej ZL ~f~ Zl&#160;! ft, ft i£ A. tt S £&#160;». ®~4b git S # B # ^. * M a la oft&#160;% m.rW ¥. a. »4 r» us,» a lit&#160;». s «&#160;«&#160;«8. -&#160;». $ ^ ^ «S?. a ffi * w n n w «• s * a i«i ia t- a h ft s ss 5SfilA,S^n;ft!l9fA*IBAiS«fS;f «. = # «&#160;B t til»£*r-l£E«£A*ra!fi, Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: Dr. William Edgar Geil was an unordained evangelist, explorer, lecturer, photographer, and author of 10 books related to his travels. He lectured all over the world, illustrating his talks with lantern slides. He is believed to be the first American to have traveled the entire length of the 2,500-kilometer-long Ming section of the Great Wall of China. He visited the Five Sacred Mountains of China, about which he wrote in The Sacred 5 of China. He came to be considered an expert in Chinese culture and religion.
context_section_description: From Australia he proceeded to New Guinea, the Philippines and Japan in late 1901. Throughout 1902, Geil made an extensive trip through China, going up the Yangtze river in a native gunboat, and was carried over the mountains of western China in a bamboo mountain chair. Geil also very visited Manchuria, Korea and Siberia, and later traveled extensively in Burma. While on the Yangtze river, he visited English, American, Australian, and Belgian missionaries in China and also became fascinated with Chinese culture as a whole. On the Chinese people, Geil stated that "The better qualities of the Chinese are shown by their ability to do good. There were great charities and benevolent institutions in China before Columbus discovered America". The second part of Geil's Great World Wide Tour and his first journey through China along the Yangzte is described in Yankee on the Yangzte.
caption: Map of Dr. Geil's journey along the Yangzte River (1902)
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