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SO3IETHI\G ABOI'T FOREIGN MISSIONS.
XII. CANTON MISSION.
MISS HARRIET A. BAKER.
In the seventh annual report of the
Board of Foreign Missions, we read:
“ In addition to the day schools, which
are iD operation in Shanghai and its
vicinity, the Board have authosized the
-establishment of a female boarding
school, to be placed under the care of
Miss Baker. The determination to em
bark in this work was induced by tl\e
request of the missionaries, more or
less urgently presented.” Among the
missionaries who desired this work,
Eev. Issaehar J. Roberts, at Canton,
was, perhaps, the most urgent. On
March sth, 1849, Miss Harriet A. Ba
ker, of Powhatan county, Va„ was ap
pointed by the Board a missionary to
China, to be located in Canton. She
sailed the March following, and arrived
at that station in July, 1850. To the
Convention of 1850, the Board report
ed : “ Sister Harriet Baker has gone to
this position for the purpose of at
tempting the establishment of a school
for female children. This is an experi
ment, the beneficial influence of which re
mains to be tested.” A few weeks after
the arrival of Miss Baker, on August
7th, Mr. and Mrs. Issaehar J. Roberts
reached Canton. They all made their
temporary abode at the house of the
Rev. James G- Bridgman, a graduate
of Amherst College, an accomplished
scholar, and a missionary of the A. B.
C. F. M., who had been, until 1848,
the supervisor of the Chinese Repository.
For some six mouths this gentleman
had withdrawn from society, and gave
svmptoms of a disordered mind. On
December Ist, 1850, “ In a paroxysm of
the disease, he attempted self-destrue
tion. Reason was restored by the loss of
blood, and he was conscious during the
five days he survived. A post mortem
examination showed a highly congested
state of ihe brain.” Mr. Roberts was
not at home at the time of the tragedy.
The ladies were alone with the bleed
ing and demented man. Communica
tions were exchanged with Mr. Rob
erts; and, in the excitement and alarm
of the hour, some informality occurred
with regard to a note addressed by Mr.
Roberts to his wife. This occasioned
an “ unpleasantness” between Miss
Baker and Mr. Roberts. With this
trouble were connected three Presby
terian missionaries, Dr. Dyer Ball, and
his sons-in-law, Rev. Dr. Happer and
Rev. J. B. French, whose names revive
in our mind recollections, for the allu
sion to which we ask pardon in ad-
Dr. Ball was our first schoolmaster
in Charleston, S. C. fie was assisted
by Frederick D. Mills, Esq., his wife’s
brother, who is now, we believe, a law
yer in Boston. Being only seven years
old, it was our lot to recite to Mrs.
Ball, in their residence below the
school-rcom, with her two daughters,
Caroline and Mary. We accompanied
the family to the wharf, whence they
sailed for the North and China. From
that time their history has been fol
lowed with more or less interest. Car
line became Mrs. Happer, and Mary,
Mrs. French. These ladies have been
reputed among the best American
scholars of the Chinese language. In
the summer of 1870, the wife of our
college mate, the late Dr. Knowlton, of
China, entered a social circle at Ham
ilton, N. Y., who were conversing on
“mutual friends.” Mrs. K. asked:
“ Who do you know in China r” We
replied: “ Caroline and Mary Ball.”
“ Caroline Happer and Mary French ;
why they are among my dearest
friends 1” That same year we were at
Oakland, in the mountains of Mary
land, sitting alone in the parlor of the
Glades Hotel. A young lady of Pitts
burg came in, and remarked: “We
ought to be acquainted, for I have a
dear friend, whose little brother is
named for you.” This led to our re
cent conversation with Mrs. Knowlton.
No sooner had the word “ Coroline
Ball” fallen from our lips, than she
exclaimed: “ Mrs. Happer; she was my
mother’s best friend! Dr. Happei has
just visited our house, which his son,
who is at Princeton, will make his
home." This double coincidence was
striking, and served to deepen our in
terest in these friends of our youth,
with whom the missionaries of our
Board in Canton have been variously
and intimately associated.
These gentlemen, Messrs. Ball, Hap
per and French, made earnest and per
severing efforts to effect a reconcilia
tion between our alienated missionaries.
Mr. Robers, not complying with what
was regarded as his engagement in the
matter, Dr. Ball wrote to him a letter,
which seems to be touched with a little
of that severity which we fancied to
belong to him as our schoolmaster 1
During the correspondence, Miss
Baker sailed January 23d, 1851, for
Shanghai, where she arrived the 2d Feb
ruary following. After her departure,
a reconciliation was effected. (Vide
Report of 1855.) The missionaries at
Shanghai were impressed with the im
portance of boarding schools, not only
for girls, but also for boys. The fol
lowing, from the pen of Mr. Shuck, is
found in the seventh annual report of
the Board r
“ Soon after the arrival oft Miss Baker here,
our mission passed a formal resolution, author
izing her to commence a female boarding school
on a small scale, but with the view of its
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX AND SOUTH-WESTEEN BAPTIST.
gradual enlargement. The general oninion
among missionaries seems to lie that where a
mission has a boarding school for one sex,
there should be in the same mission a similar
school for the other sex. This is especially
desirable in view of future matrimonial con
nections. It is the standing custom of the
Chinese to betroth their children at a very
early age; and for one young person, care
fully brought up in a mission school, to be
compelled to marry another brought up under
all the influences of heathenism, would be one
of the greatest discouragements and drawbacks,
as well as a positive throwing away of much
missionary toil, time and money. Compulsion
is one of the main features of Chinese betrothal
and marriage.”
We stop again to remark that, wheu
our mission at Canton was left without
a missionary, by the return to this
country of Rev. B. W. Whilden, the
interests of our Board were committed
to the hands of one of the gentlemen
referred to above, the Eev. J. B.
French. This gentleman was de
scribed “as classical in his style; of
great simplicity of taste and refine
ment of feeling; of sound judgment;
industrious, regular, and of methodical
habits; and as having a person and
heart which, when nerved to defend the
right and protect the injured, assumed
a majesty aud resistless power.” He
was a native of Georgetown, D. C., and
lived, at one time, in Richmond, Va.,
where he was employed in behalf of
the American Tract Society. He died
at sea, coming to this country on ac
count of his health, November 30,
1858, “ on the twenty-fifth anniversary
of his sorrowing wife.” His biographer,
after describing the burial, when the
anguished widow stood on the deck,
with her two little boys, and saw “ the
enshrouded form of her loved one lifted
by the strong arm of kind-hearted sail
ors, and then lowered into the opening
waves,” touchingly remarks: “No
marble slab is reared there to mark his
resting place or remind us of his deeds ;
but his name is engraven on the hearts
of his compeers, in the work ot disen
thralling the millions of paganism from
the woes of sin ; and will be remem
bered by many, redeemed from China,
to join him in the songs of the just
made perfect in Heaven.”
In the Providence of God, Miss Ba
ker was not allowed to labor long in
her chosen work. In 1854 the Board
reported to the Convention : “ By the
advice of Dr. Lockhart, in consequence
of ill health, which threatened to be
permanent, Miss Harriet Baker was in
duced, with the consent of the Board,
December sth, 1853, to return to this
country. She expresses deep concern
for the prosperity of the mission, and
regrets that duty seems to demand her
retirement from it.”
For some years after the return of
Miss Baker, the Board was opposed to
single women becoming missionaries.
This we had good reason to know from
the vain j and persevering efforts of
our dear child in the Lord, Mary Cau
field, afterward Mrs. T. A. Reid, who
died in Africa, to go alone, under the
patronage of our Board, on the mission
to which she felt herself solemnly called
of God.
But this policy of the Board is now
changed, aud they congratulate them
selves and the churches at the accom
plished and efficient single women in the
field, who are doing a work which men
cannot do, and which will link their
names, iudissolubiy, with the redemp
tion of the greatest empire in the
world.
Miss Bake: is believed to be the au
thor of “ The Orphan of the Old Do
minion,” in which, under the name of
Lumiua Silvervale, she gives her own
life in the character of Almaria Hobvn.
The account of her conversion, by read
ing the biography of Ann H. Judson,
her early missionary impressions, aud
experience and observations and per
formances in Canton and Shanghai, is
interesting and instructive. She wields
a sharp pen, and touches, keenly, a Mr.
Hollins, of Canton, whom we recognize
as our missionary, Rev. Issacher J.
Roberts, as well as some other people,
of whom we have only heard under the
fictitious titles of “ The Orphan of the
Old Dominion.”
Miss Baker is living with her brother
in one of the extreme Western States.
May her life be long spared, and use
fully spent to the end—no longer feel
ing orphange in view of her Father’s
home On High. And in the sunset
hour, may there shine about her glories
more heavenly than the depicted beau
ties of her luxuriant fancy, in verifica
tion of the gracious promise : “ He will
beautify the meek with salvation.”
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