Behind The Great Wall - The Story Of The C.E.Z.M.S. Work And Workers In China The Story of the C.e.z.m.s. Work and Workers in China

PREFACE I HAVE been permitted to read Behind the Great Wall in the proof-sheets. It appears now in the full dress of publication, and goes to make friends in the world, the ever-widening world, thank God, of those who read missionary literature. I venture to predict for it a large circle of grateful friends and a rich fruit-bearing from amongst them. For assuredly they will find in this book a message which will do admirably well those two works always necessary to the kindling and sustaining of mis of facts, and sionary zeal the clear and full conveyance the gentle yet powerful application of the appeal. For me, China has for long years been a household word in the most literal sense. I was still a boy when I saw my beloved brother, now Missionary Bishop in Mid-China, go forth quot for the Name s at sake, quot the age of nearly thirty, in December, 1857. And in less than four years another dear brother, now his Archdeacon, followed him, in a sailing vessel, which rounded the Cape, and was months on the way. From those days to these I have always seemed to see China, and to hear it, and have indeed learned to love it through these loved and honoured ones, and now through their children, who are missionaries in their turn, and through many another friend, close to my heart in Christ. Yes, for one who has never sailed to the Far East, I have seemed to know China well in some respscts, after these nearly forty years of the household word Yet when I read Behind the Great Wall I have found myself, in page after page, furnished with quite new sets of facts, presented with quite new aspects of Chinese life, and brought face to face with both incidents and persons full of the newest and deepestinterest. I thank God for this record of His work through the C.E.Z.M.S., and through those devoted Guniongs the reader will soon be familiar with that word whom it has sent out in the Lord s Name. The climax of interest is reached in the closing pages, which put almost visibly before us the blessed martyrs of Hwa-sang, and stir the inmost soul to tears, and prayers, and new zeal for the Lord Jesus, over their glorified names. But the whole book is in keeping with that close. For all along it records the patient work and labour of love through which the martyr spirit breathes as truly as it did oil that awful morning of death and glory. One most delightful chapter will be prized by many that which tells of the Native women-workers and that which deals with medical work and the again, singularly interesting story of Mrs. Ahok. But I will not particularize further. quot Goe, little boke, quot and the Lord of Grace and of Missions go with thee. Go, to the quickening of our faith, love, hope, and self-dedication to Him. Go, to the strengthening of the work of the much-blest Society from which thou hast thy origin. Go, to be the Master s messenger to those who shall be the messengers of His choice to the women of vast and needing China. RIDLEY LODGE, CAMBRIDGE, June 1st, 1896. H. C. G. MOULE. CONTENTS Pat-e INTRODUCTORY . 1 A GLANCE AT THE LAND . CHAPTER I CHAPTER II THE VOYAGE AND THE LANGUAGE 21 CHAPTER III VISITING IN THE VILLAGES 30 CHAPTER IV CHINESE WOMEN THEIR OWN EVANGELISTS .... 42 CHAPTER V THE STORY OF MRS. AHOK GO CHAPTER VI ...