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“...father, when look- ing for a euitable house, said the most important things were Church emi School. it must be fairly near a helpful ministry . and good achools, Mr. David Thomas was then the miniater at Bighbury Chapel, the miselonary collection was so large that Mir. Jackson decided it was a missionary spirited Church, He much appreciated the thoughtful sermons and the reverent atmosphere of the Church of which he and hie wife at once became | members. iater he was elected deacon. ‘Thare was @ Mission , CHapel in comection with Highbury and there Mr. Jackson preached regularly for sams years each Sunday evening. ‘The five elder The girle now attended Clifton Ledies' College, a school on modern linea, auch like the High Sehools new to be found everywhere. | | Amy was short for hey age and the macters thought her ; | clever in consequence. When a tall girl, not much older, could not solve & problem in algebra which Amy did at once, he observed, “How is it you cannot de it when that...”
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“...1875 ~ 1880. In each of them was o missionary came to weleame Any. She was delighted, for she bad never met any of them and in fact did not know anyone in @11 the land, so it wae very nice to get & warn weleows and not to have to enquire her way in unknown place to the Mission House. There waa a high wind and the seo was etii2 rough. Or. Ritel asked Auy whether she would be nervous if they had the sail up? She laughed at the bare idea, but he said his wife would be afraid, Amy enjoyed the sail, which was a very abort one. She found she was to stay with Mr. ami Mrs. Mdge at firet, ae there was no house for the umerried ladies then. itisa Rowe, whose Lieague she was to be, Lived with a widew lady belonging to ancther Mission. Hongkong is a beautiful Islend and Amy felt that the iines had fallen to her in pleasant places. Ber firet care was to get a teacher, A Christian man taught her for the first month. It was rather weird to be eet down with a man who could/unlerstand a word one said and...”
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“...going to a school neer, After a year or so Awy bad @ man teacher again, this time a deacon in the Lil.Seichool, He took a great intersat in helping her to prepare Aible Lessons and was very much more JLiigont than tire, Chan who, however, was employed to | teach & number of women to read, Some of those became Bible- wonent they Lived downstairs in the iiienton House, and ad | came in to Prayers every morning. After 4 time the teacher A ani her granddaughter taught one of the largest of the Mission — (1g) a | En aD ane EET...”
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“...months when she was ealied upon to take ® class in the Sunday Sehool. The good Little girls gat etill and looked eolemn when the new | misdionary made all sorte of queer mistakes. WNone thought of laughing. Heppily eke hed pictures te show them go they got some ides of what she was talking about. She began 4 to go to the day echools too, and hear the booke. In those days Ghine#e schoole taught all the lessons by rote, and the Superintendent's business was to hear their recitations, In the Mission schools teachers were supposed to explain the books learnt, or at any rate the religious books. Amy goon learnt to ask questions or to follow the girle when they interpreted the book style they had learnt by heart into the colloquial of everyday life. Amy tried to study seven hours a day, and would have (20)...”
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“...with bows —" arrows, Shot, as they rode by, at a target. The Manchus, with long feathers in their hats, were the most picturesque. But Amy could only spend a week or two away from her studies and work. Thet Autumn Mies Rowe came to live with her. She was far from strong and often had fever. She wae much older than Amy and was an interesting companion, but her ideas of what should and what should not be done were very atrong and had to be taken count of by all concerned. Dr. Eitel had left the Mission to becone Government Inspector of Schoole; he had six children and a miseionary's salary wae hardly enough to live on. He kept on very friendly terma with all, end ocessionally persuaded some to accompany him on hie trip round the I¢land to inspect the village echools, In the schools opened by the Britioh Goverment they ueed & terles of reading books which the children had not only to resd but to explain and write from dictation. Thie was the beginning of the revolution of teaching through~ out...”
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“...ell when there were forty or more children to look after, all none room. ‘The teachers got a good share of the grant, and the knowledge that not only the Mieston Superintendent might come in at any time, but that the Government Inspector might do go also, made them very punctual, and kept them up to the mark.in many ways. Hongkong if a great place for visitors, and in thoge daye, when there were no other Miesions but the London Missionery Society, the Church Missionary Society and ‘a Basel Mission there, miseionaries of all societies passing through Hongkong came to one or other of these Missions. In the Spring of 1880 a large party of L.u.S. workers came _ through; @ome were going home, but one arrived the same day on hie way out. Arnold Foster was not then connected with the L.M.3,. ae he wes coming out s¢ Chaplain to the Hankow community, but he had worked for the L.4.5. for several years already and intended still to do 80, though not formally | connected with the old Seciety. Amy...”
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“...Thomas, and had been to the Bristol Missionary Meetings shortly before coming out. She hoped to see more of him the next day, but after he head left the Shalmere' house, where she had met him, Mre. Ghaimers asked her if ehe would help entertain a number of children on their way home from Hankow, 90 Amy reluctantly offered to take them to the Gardens the next day, fearing she would thereby lose her chance of another talk with Mr. Foster. However, se it beppened when he came ashore he called at the Mission House and hearing of the expedition to the gardens asked whether he might come too? It was a sunny day, and the gardens were lovely, the palme stood out against the bluest of blue skies, and they walked and talked in a land of enchantment long to be remembered. Sut though Mr. Foster seriously considered the desirability of missing hie steamer he decided against it and was soon on his way North, leaving Amy to piod on as before. Then came news of her father's death. She had been more or lese...”
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“...agked the nurse about the probability of goon going home, ; and when ehe told him it was not likely he had many hours to wait he stretched up hie hands saying, "Glory be to God." A few hours later he gave a long, long look at hie wife, , then gazing up saw something the watcher by his bed could not See, and enue hie eyes with o emile, one short breath, and he wag safe in Heaven. Amy could give thanks through her tenre; she hac really hardly expected ever to see him again when she joined the Mission, that in those dsya only gave furloughs omce in ten years ~- Heaven seemed nearer than tnglend. Belle wrote, "Heaven is richer for ue to-day than it ever was before. The dear, dear father has made it home for ud. Ien't it beautiful to have him again to go before and be ready to take his babies into the Home where hie experience and guidance will help us again? He wae longing to go, his mind was clear and calm, thinking of everything to eave the (25) y...”
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“...this time to Mre. Jackson, she said, “You do not ask my permission. I suppose it was unnecessary as my child was already given up to the Mission, nevertheless I eordially give it, thankfully too. My Amy was always my most precious ehild, never giving me uneasiness of any kind, loving her Bible and her Lord from her earliest years. “hile I write I think of the sweet baby attitude in which she would lie on the rug spelling out her large printed Testament .* One day ® young woman came to see Amy in great distress. She had run away from home and begged to be allowed to stay 2t the Mission House and study with the women who lived there. Hers wae a very ead story. Her parents were Christians, but both poor and ignorant. When only fifteen she was married to a boy of the same age, whose mother was an ardent idolator. very morning she told A Ying to light the incense sticks and red candles before the picture of the goddess of mercy. Though 4 Ying hed never been to echool and could not read...”
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“...The poor girl was only seventeen. Any said ehe could not keep her long, but she might stay = few days and she wouid See what could be done. %0 she joined the women living in the houee in their studies with the 3iGlewoman. After a few dmye her mother-in-law called at the Mission House and promised thet if the girl would go back with her she should not be compelled to worship idole in the future. Amy felt ehe had no right to keep the girl and hoped that the knowledge that the girl had friends to whom she could come would make the woman afraid further to perseoute her. It was hard to let her go, and as Amy left Hongkong not long after she never heard what became of poor A Ying. _ | | When Amy realised that her life-work would not be in Hongkong she decided to get through her lenguage examinations as quickly as possible #@o that she might begin to etudy Mandarin, the language spoken in Hankow, where she would be after her marriage. Mr. Foster sent a teacher and Amy gave | six month to study...”
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“...wea no A religion at all. There wat ® G6mall day~school for girls in connection with the Mission; Amy Degan at once going to this; the teacher wae the firet woman to be baptized in Central China, a very good Christianrbut not particularly well educated. There was a Biblewoman too with whom Amy visited sometimes, she very soon began going to the hospital to talk to the women out-patients, at first she had to listen to the Biblewomen but che soon began to talk herself end found this = much better way of reaching the women than vieiting in their homes. Men, women and children all attended the Sunday School. An old deacon, ® wesherman, taught the clase of women. Amy joined this clase at first ae a listener, but es soon ae her knowledge of the language ennbled her to teach she took over the clase and taught it all the yenrs she was in Hankow. | In Decamber there were two new reoruite to the Mission + kr.Gonsey and Dr. Giilison. The latter stayed with Mr. and | Mre. Foster for some weeks...”
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“...@ good bey, I want to be a Christian too." ‘The hospitel cook wan fond of the lsd and invited him to Lve with him so thet he might attend the Mission dey~¢chool. Ue did ao for some years, and thet is how he came to be in Mre.Pomterta Sible Class. After @ time the dector took him into the Hospital to train as an assistant, and afterwerds into the Medics School. After qualifying av @ doctor he id good work in L.!.S.hospitals, and when the Chinese Government ordered that the Principals of schools in China must be Chimese, it wae the daughter of thie. Or» Chou that was felt to be best fitted to take charge of the girla' boerding-sehool that had been started by Mrs .Vostor. im 1885 ure, Jonn died and ira. Foster's hande were very | ald of wort. |...”
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“...®) never recovered, but the shock may not have had anything to go with that. All felt much shaken. The Doxology wae sung. After nearly three weeks away from home Mre. Foster was very glad to get back, distinotly better and able to take up work again. She tried to make it a happy home for the girls, keeping their birthdays with little parties and arrang- ing presente. Dr. John's daughter wns merried in May that year, and all the Mission feneted together on that happy eecasion, but re. Foster's voice was still too weak for her to do any work outside, and she was advised to go home for a change. One Saturday when they were discussing the matter she said to Mr. Foster, "If Dr. John thinks I ought to go I will.? She. knew that Dr. John generally advised misesionarier to stay out ere when doctors advised their going to England. But when Ur. Foster consulted Dr. John he said at once, “She ought to go and the sooner the better." Go she packed her boxes and atarted in three deys' tine, feeling...”
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“...paid them a vieit. Ne was on his way to Chungkung, where the Friends hed by thie time started a Mission. George Muller, too, ~ Founder ef the Srietol Orphan Aeylum ~- came to stay there. | | The summers were ailways trying, there was so much sickness, and the work of the Mission kept on all the same, The only holidays given in Chinese schools were in the winter, & month was given et their New Year, and a dey or two at the | other feests during the year. The hospitals, too, kept going ell the time, Mre. Foeter felt the heat very much going in the middle of the day to talk to the women as they waited to gee the dostor. The schools were generally vieited in the afternoon. The English echeol closed for two monthe in the greatest heat, but the Burscian girle stayed on, and it was not much es@ier to keep them good and happy during the holidays than during schooldsya. ire. Foster read aloud to them a good deni, when her voice allowed, and they occupied them- selves in the schoolroom; the elder...”
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“...till the last Gay, then ehe became delirious and sang hymns -she had always wished to be able to sing, but had not had much voice. Now : she wee 111 she sang much better, eurprising herself, and said "I never could sing like that when I was well.* She was 18, and hed steyed on to help in teaching the younger ones, eo her Gerth wae o special grief to Mre. Foster. ‘During the next year or two it seemed ae if all her friends would die - Mr. Foster's grentest friend, David Hill, of the Wesleyan Mission, psesed away im April. He enught typhus visiting hute before dawn to give relief. For over 20 year@ they hed been like brothers, and it wae a very grent #orror to ur. Foster when he knew he should never see his face again. By this time liv. & rs. Terrell had gone to live at Sinoken, the first country etetion te be opened in Central Ghina by the L..9, (A country station there generally means & welled city, Sut away from a Port where other foreigners live.) Thet summer Wr. & Ure. Foster went...”
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“...not very enecourag- ing. | During the @pring Mre. Toaster wae far from well and as ire. Uavengert had gone to Kuling in June she went to @pend a few days with her. Before she was really well herself she went to nuree irs, Gilligon, who had run up a high temperature while her baby was only a few days old. “hile there reports of disturbances in different parts of China reached them. The Boxers bad begun their wicked work, and there was quite a scare at Kuling. Remembering the meesacre of 0.1.3. mission-— aries a few years before this at their hili resort, Mra. Foster persuaded Dr .Gillison not to mowe his wife while @he hed fever, and stayed with then till she wes better, then she returned to Yuohang, very glad to ve back and to be able to put ino few more weeke st the school before closing for the summer holidsys. | Some monthe before thie Dr.Ruth Hassey had arrived to begin medical work among women in Wuchang. Of course @ good number of women had been seen at the men's hoapital, but now...”
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“...that the Church was used a great deal. There WSS also & union work for reaching the Chinese who came each year in inoressing numbers to Kuling till there was quite a large village outside the estate where the foreigners lived. A Medion] mission was started and a hospital built, generous collections being teken up for this in the big Church on Medical Miagion Sunday. At Christmas there were grand doings at the boarding school in Yucheng, 2 Christmas Tree hung with presents for each echolar was the chief interest, friends fromhome sent out dolls, workbegs and scrap books, while little bage of candy were prepared on the spot, and many little Ghinese toys helped to fill the tree. This took place on Christmas Eve, the next day the foreign members of the Mission came to dine with Kre. Foster and gang onrols, and tried to keep up the home feeling. As the school grew the Chinete Chapel in Wuehang became too smail and had to be enlarged. The girls worked for a little Sale to help the funds, and in...”
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“...school-girle to g@out. This was a great relief; it wae arranged tost the procezsion should start from the American Mission compound, es it wes the largest in which to assemble. The Roman Gatholios brought their girls, and as each Mise ion had about one hundred it was « long precession when at last it atarted that hot Thureday afternoon for the river bank. Ere. Foster told her girle $0 wear 21 the clothes they could ee they were not pliewed to take anything but the smallest bundles with them, #0 they wore two or three suite each and carried their Bibles, hymn~books and special treasures in their handkerchiefs. The city gates were only opened about two feet; on etch aide stood soldiers holding awords stretched out across the opening, so that each ae she passed through had to stoop down under the words. One girl looked rather Like a Menchu, and the soldere stopped herand would have killed her then and there if by her pronunciation ehe had not proved the truth of the other girl's statements...”
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“...promiees to their understanding. How mony Christians understand God is a refuge, to mean anything more than that He will provide an earthly refuge’ If I were to clesr out now the distresa of the Christians would be very great and I cannot justify such a course to my own mind. I feel sure, too, that our presence ia helpful to the quiet of the place. %It seemed to me that aome of the better shops outside the city had been opened and atripped of their content# since the tenants left, and I expect the Mission premises would soon be looted if we were not here ~ thet is if danger comes. I am in perfect peace of mind and hope to get through some work when I have got my letter off. (88) an aa a Sl SS re wi mers aiLiaacS fecal ai ei Rede eS Sata ae Th ee a 4 ) | a | A...”
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“...fire would sweep away the greater part of the Chinese town. tfear the %.8.S. must have been burnt out before this." Many of the people at the C.IuM. were also anxious about the Veeleyan Mission, eapecially about their Blind School. It wae marvellous how they escaped, coming in a string through the ourning city, past Looting soldiers, with shot and sheil falling all round them, yet they came uninjured to the 4.#.8, Hoapital, which had been emptied of its patients just in time for their arrivel. tt was thought to be s dangerous place, but having esenped the fire it was ready to teke in the blind boye, who sang the Doxology on reaching the place of refuge. | On November 4th Mr.Poster came over to the 0.1.m. feeling he could not do much more in Yucheang, and that there wae need of helpers in Hankow. This wae a great relief to Mra. Foster, of course, though he still rigked his life in Red Gross work, bringing in the wounded. Por two or three dnys a fierce battle raged in Hankow and Hanyang...”