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July 15. 1914.<br />

A FAMILY PAPER.<br />

mer. Cache Creek Mission school opened Sept.<br />

SOth, 1913, <strong>and</strong> closed May 22nd, 1914. A vacation<br />

of one week was given the children during<br />

the holiday season. Five of the-children were in<br />

school every day, making a total of 227 days<br />

each. Four of the children were a few days late<br />

in returning after the New Year. <strong>The</strong>y had an<br />

average attendance of 220 days each. One little<br />

girl was allowed to go to her home for six<br />

weeks on account of sore eyes, one eye being almost<br />

blind. One little boy was enrolled for 20<br />

days, but taken to Port Sill, where his older<br />

ibrothers <strong>and</strong> sisters attended. Six other children<br />

under school age attended often when their<br />

parents were in camp <strong>and</strong> when they came early<br />

to attend the weekly prayer meeting held at 4<br />

o'clock on Wednesday afternoons. Of the ten<br />

children attending regularly, only four knew any<br />

English when entering, <strong>and</strong> only one of them<br />

could speak <strong>and</strong> underst<strong>and</strong> it readily. All now<br />

speak, read <strong>and</strong> write the English. Special attention<br />

was given to committing Bible verses,<br />

teaching Bible stories, <strong>and</strong> instructing them in<br />

practical moral lessons. <strong>The</strong>y commit quite readily,<br />

but it is harder for them to get the meaning.<br />

Receipts for the year, $6,195.80; expenditures,<br />

$6,339.95; balance on h<strong>and</strong>, $1,666.17; request,<br />

$6,500.<br />

Dear Sir:<br />

<strong>The</strong> tracts you so kindly sent some time since<br />

have been read <strong>and</strong> given away to those who I<br />

thought would benefit hy them.<br />

<strong>The</strong> tracts put in words my experience of the<br />

living <strong>and</strong> ungodly modes of the people of the<br />

United States of America, setting themselves before<br />

God, let alone the life <strong>and</strong> teaching of Christ.<br />

I would have pleasure in distributing any literature<br />

you may forward for my reading.<br />

Yours truly.<br />

Eear Brother:<br />

I have received your letter <strong>and</strong> tracts <strong>and</strong> they<br />

are nearly all mailed out. If you have some new<br />

tracts, you might send me a few more. I am too<br />

old to h<strong>and</strong>le many more tracts, as 1 am nearly<br />

seventy-nine, <strong>and</strong> I have two or three hundred<br />

tracts of different kinds to distribute. I have<br />

been tracting for twenty-flve years, have paid out<br />

a great deal of money for tracts <strong>and</strong> mailing, 'but<br />

my work is about done. I nope I have done a<br />

little good. I will send you a dollar to pay for<br />

the tracts you have sent me. If I owe you any<br />

more, let me know.<br />

Yours in the Cause of Reformation,<br />

VISITING OUR CHINESE MISSION.<br />

Tak Hing, West River, S. China, May 18, 1914.<br />

I am seated in Miss Ella Stewart's room, in<br />

the ladles' house, just beside the girls' school,<br />

<strong>and</strong> I shall try to tell you something about the<br />

delightful time I am having here among your<br />

missionaries. I cannot tell of the love <strong>and</strong> loving<br />

hospitality of these dear friends. One has<br />

to be righf here <strong>and</strong> enjoy that to really know<br />

it, but I shall try to tell you about what I have<br />

seen of the work. My last letter told you about<br />

my trip up the river. I reached Tak Hing about<br />

eleven o'clock the day after leaving Canton. <strong>The</strong><br />

approach to the place is very fine. For sometime<br />

we were in sight of the city, <strong>and</strong> the Mission<br />

buildings are the firstthing one notices. I<br />

could see the church, <strong>and</strong> <strong>also</strong> two houses under<br />

LETTERS TO THE WITNESS BEARING COMerection.<br />

Have learned since that these are for<br />

MITTEE.<br />

If one can have a breeze it is not so bad, otherwise<br />

sometimes it is dreadful. Your body will<br />

Mr. Kemp <strong>and</strong> Mr. Taggart. <strong>The</strong>re is a finepagoda<br />

just before coming to the l<strong>and</strong>ing <strong>and</strong><br />

Dear Sir <strong>and</strong> Brother:<br />

I am In receipt of yours of the 1st inst. In reply<br />

I may say that I received the package of<br />

just be bathed in perspiration. You see this<br />

some of the hills across the river from Tak Hing place is only about ten feet above sea level<br />

tracts or pamphlets you sent at my request, on are the highest along the river. <strong>The</strong> hills back <strong>and</strong> with a tropical climate makes it trying.<br />

Psalms <strong>and</strong> Hymns. This is all I have received <strong>and</strong> the many trees, with the gray brick buildings<br />

nestled down among them, formed a very<br />

Both mission houses have a yard around about.<br />

up to date. I shall read with care this tract enclosed<br />

in your letter. Anything that may come pleasing picture. Soon a sampan pushed out er, <strong>and</strong> it smells like a lemon. Has a yellow<br />

<strong>The</strong>re are green grass <strong>and</strong> floweringtrees, among<br />

others, the beautiful magnolia, a large white flow­<br />

to h<strong>and</strong> I will treat with consideration.<br />

from the l<strong>and</strong>ing <strong>and</strong> came toward us. <strong>The</strong> center. <strong>The</strong> leaves of the tree are dark green<br />

You will be surprised perhaps, to have me tell officer said, "That is Rev. Taggart coming for <strong>and</strong> very glaSsy, making a fine setting for the<br />

you that I am a retired minister member of the you." And he was right. Very soon I was welcomed<br />

by 'Mr. Taggart. As the river was low, we green vines growing all over the wall. This is to<br />

flower. <strong>The</strong> yards are walled in <strong>and</strong> there are<br />

conference of the Methodist Episcopal<br />

Church. I did my work of over forty years in had to l<strong>and</strong> in the city, otherwise we would have break the glare <strong>and</strong> make it more easy on the<br />

lowa I saw notice of tract <strong>and</strong> sent gone down stream a little ways <strong>and</strong> l<strong>and</strong>ed by eyes. I wondered why the two compounds were<br />

for a few to send to some of my Methodist the church. As we came up the steps of the not together, in place of having just a path between<br />

<strong>and</strong> the two walls, but I was told that<br />

preacher friends that they might know your l<strong>and</strong>ing, I said to Mr. Taggart, I believe you do<br />

position. When a youth, I attended school for not keep your Ijack yards any cleaner than we was not a path, but a public road, <strong>and</strong> could not<br />

some time at Lennox Collegiate Institute, since do in India. He laughingly replied, "Miss Anderson,<br />

this is our front yard." Ever since I<br />

be 'bought out. Once a road, always a road In<br />

changed to Lennox College, at Hopkinton, Iowa.<br />

I remember well, how I enjoyed discourses I came I have been trying to decide which is the<br />

heard there from the <strong>Reformed</strong> <strong>Presbyterian</strong> minister,<br />

the Reverend Doctor Roberts. If you have<br />

dirtier, China or India, or which has the worst<br />

odors, <strong>and</strong> I have not yet reached a conclusion.<br />

a copy of the church paper of the Reformer <strong>Presbyterian</strong><br />

Sometimes I think India is ahead, <strong>and</strong><br />

Church at h<strong>and</strong> that you could send me, I<br />

would thank you if you would do so. I will enclose<br />

stamps to pay for it.<br />

after having to hold my nose some more in this<br />

city I think China is ahead, sure. One does not<br />

wonder that so many people die of filthdiseases.<br />

I know your people. I know your work. I You wonder far more that any of them life. As<br />

know you hold high doctrines along your line of we passed along the narrow streets of the city, I<br />

advocacy. I wish you great success in your work.<br />

I am fraternally,<br />

saw many things that reminded me of the Indian<br />

bazarra. <strong>The</strong> stores are very much the same, all<br />

exposed to the view of the public. Rice, flour,<br />

<strong>and</strong> other dry food stuffs in large baskets. One<br />

thing was new. Every here <strong>and</strong> there we had to<br />

share the road with a big fat pig that waddled<br />

along, <strong>and</strong> we passed by shop after shop where<br />

pork meat was offered for sale. I wondered<br />

what our Mohammedan friends in India would<br />

say if they had to pass along the street <strong>and</strong> have<br />

to share the room with a pig. I am sure they<br />

would say "Repent, Repent." So many little<br />

children on the streets <strong>and</strong> many of them had a<br />

smile <strong>and</strong> word for Mr. Taggart. China has<br />

lots of little nurses, too, I notice, but in place<br />

of baby being carried astride the hip, he is<br />

carried in a cloth tied around the body of the<br />

baby <strong>and</strong> then up over the arms of the little<br />

girls. Tne people are so much fairer than our<br />

people that one's attention is attracted, especially<br />

are the dear little Chinese habies white <strong>and</strong><br />

pink, <strong>and</strong> many of ^heni^vi«=y pretty <strong>and</strong> all so<br />

cunning lookiug. 1 thought we were just going<br />

down a path from the city to the mission house,<br />

but I was informed I was on a public road.<br />

<strong>The</strong>re are no wheeled conveyances in this part<br />

of China. You ride on the river or you walk on<br />

the l<strong>and</strong>. We pass hy the hospital <strong>and</strong> on up<br />

between two high gray brick walls, until we<br />

reach the building where Mr. Taggart lives. I<br />

could not say his home, for it is <strong>also</strong> the home<br />

of Dr. Wright <strong>and</strong> family, <strong>and</strong> Mr. <strong>and</strong> Mrs.<br />

Kempf, <strong>and</strong> Mrs. Doig. I was so pleased to<br />

meet Mrs. Taggart <strong>and</strong> dear little baby Martha.<br />

She is just about seven months old, but is more<br />

like a baby of ten or twelve months. A beautiful<br />

child <strong>and</strong> not only the darling of that home, but<br />

the pet of the whole mission. Mrs. Mitchell is<br />

staying with her sister. She had to leave Loh<br />

Ting about three" months ago on account ot<br />

rheumatism <strong>and</strong> is still quite poorly, can hardly<br />

walk. It is not easy for her to remain in Tak<br />

Hing <strong>and</strong> have her husb<strong>and</strong> left all alone at their<br />

own station, several days away from her, <strong>and</strong> in<br />

rather an unsettled part of the country.<br />

My headquarters are with the Taggarts, but I<br />

am rooming in the other mission house with the<br />

single ladles, <strong>and</strong> have Miss Ella Stewart's room.<br />

I have it I know, because it is the coolest, best<br />

room in the house at this season of the year. It<br />

is hot <strong>and</strong> steamy, more like our climate in July<br />

<strong>and</strong> August, than the dry heat of May in India.<br />

China.<br />

I found the mission houses plainly, but neatly<br />

furnished, nothing costly, but an effort made to<br />

have things home-like. In the evening I went to<br />

the little corner of the yard by Mr. Robb's house,<br />

where rests the precious dust of those who loved<br />

not their lives, but freely poured out life itself,<br />

that China might know about Christ. Dr. Maude<br />

Ge<strong>org</strong>e <strong>and</strong> on either side Mrs. A. I. Robb <strong>and</strong><br />

Miss Torrence. All young in years <strong>and</strong> service in<br />

China. It did not take them long to do all that<br />

the Master had for them in active service, but<br />

they are still laboring in China through the li^es<br />

they touched <strong>and</strong> set on firefor God. As I stood<br />

by the grave of Dr. Ge<strong>org</strong>e <strong>and</strong> thought of her as<br />

I knew her the year I was with you in Beaver<br />

Falls, talented, young, winsome, beautiful in person<br />

<strong>and</strong> character, surrounded by those who loved<br />

her <strong>and</strong> that she loved, giving up all for China's<br />

suttering ones, <strong>and</strong> in three short years to be<br />

gone, I asked myself was it worth the price <strong>and</strong> I<br />

knew that if, from the heights of glory, she could<br />

speak, she would say I was gl-cid to be counted<br />

worthy to do this, <strong>and</strong> my own heart said, Christ<br />

is worthy of even this measure of love <strong>and</strong> devotion.<br />

<strong>The</strong>se graves of your missionaries here in<br />

Tak Hmg are a challenge to the home church, to<br />

enter in <strong>and</strong> possess the l<strong>and</strong>.<br />

I must close <strong>and</strong> leave the rest for another<br />

letter.<br />

Lovingly, your sister,<br />

EMMA DEAN ANDERSON.

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