Identifier: inbrightestasia1891mabi (find matches)
Title: In brightest Asia
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Mabie, Henry Clay, 1847-1918
Subjects: Voyages and travels Missions
Publisher: Boston, W.G. Corthell
Contributing Library: School of Theology, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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r glowing comment. It did seem a pity we couldnt have MissParker (so soon to arrive) with us, but I hope yet to greet her on her arrival at Shanghai. Ihave at least witnessed the home in which she is to live, the promising school of girls in whiclishe will begin to teach, the womens school, the hospital, the boys school, in all of which shewill find deep interest, and I have seen the people living there within the hoary battlementedwalls of a heathen city, which will move her heart to a compassion such as no scene she everlooked upon before has awakened. I am now visiting the outlying native churches and fieldswith which she will become helpfully familiar. May God brace her for what she is to meet, —amoral darkness and dearth that can be felt. y^^0\)\T,<^. October 28. Mr. Goddard and I are to-day on the return trip from Shaohing. We have had five days ofit out on this route, and it will take to-day and to-night besides to bring us back to Ningpo. We The Eastern Chhia JMission. 55
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LEANING PAUUDA AT NINGPO. 56 In Brightest Asia. stopped with Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins at Shaohing. They have been thirty years in this region, andthey are vigorous still, and working away with unabated zeal. Mr. J. has, besides his evangelisticwork in several stations, a training-school for preachers, having seven students with him at pres-ent. Mr. Adams and his eleven-year-old son, Arthur, came in from Kinhwa, and we all had agreat visit together. Mr. Adams was one of Dr. Guinness first students, was several years withthe C. I. M. in Bhamo, Burma, and also with that mission in China for one year. He joined ourmission about eight years ago, and has proved one of our very best workers, having built up goodstrong stations all about him. On Sunday afternoon, he, Mr. Goddard and I started out through tlie city to visit two or threeof the native preaching-places — little, cheaply fitted up sheds of affairs, with a clay floor, and afew rude seats like saw-horses. We needed no church bell or o

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