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MISSIONARY WORK IN CHINA.
LETTER FROM MISS MARY CUL
LER WHITE.
To the Members of the Foreign
Missionary Societies, South Macon
District, South Georgia Conference:
My Dear Friends: I appreciate so
much the effort you are making to
raise my salary that I want to help
you if I can, and to make you feel'
nearer to me by having a personal
knowledge of my work. I am your
missionary, and what I do, you do,
for you make my stay here possible
by your self-denial and your gener
osity.
Another,way you help me is by
your prayers, and when I feel God
especially with me and see Hie Spirit
opening up darkened hearts, I won
der who is helping just then by her
prayers—who is bringing down tips
blessing here in China by the plead
ings that go up from a closet in
America.
Some of you who pray for me I
have never seen, and may never see
in the flesh, but the blessing comes,
and [ thank you just the same as I
thank other friends into whose eyes
I have looked and whom I love with
a love that the distance, of half a
world oannot change. 4, often ask
God to bless all the people who pray
for me,and I thank Him that He has
put me in a place of honer where so
many are interested in my work.
Ah, little do the dear people at
home know what theilr prayers mean
to us out here, or what danger the
individual may be in at that vbry
time. Two incidents will suffice to
show you what I mean. On the ,2nd
of September, last, as Miss Alice G.
Waters and Miss Orien S. Alexander
were returning by boat from their
summer vacation, a man on a boat
just in front of theirs suddenly cut
one of the ropes by which their boat
was attached to a number of others
being towed by a steam launch.
Their boat immediately capsized and
sank until only the upturned bottom
was left above water. Our friends
were caught like rats in a trap, but
by clinging to the floor, which form
ed a roof above them, they just man
aged to keep their heads above wa
ter. Though about the middle of
the day, it was perfectly dark in the
almost sunken boat where they were,
and at times the supply of, oxygen
was so nearly exhausted that only a
tilt of the boat Baved them fifom im
mediate death. They were in this
condition for over one hour, while
plan after plan for getting them out
was discussed by the Chinese out
side. They expected nothing but
death, and calmly prepared to meet
their God. Each led in prayer, and
though it was so dark they could
not see eaoh other’s faces, they were
greatly oomforted; and them came
the blessed assurance stealing in over
them that they would be saved. At
last they were pulled out by their
feet, received into another boat by
the Chinese, and, that same night
they arrived in safety at MoTyiere
Home, Shanghai, dressed in borrow
ed Chinese garments. It was noth
ing but a miraole. Others have
drowned under similar conditions,
and aB I have thought it, I have
wondered who was praying for them
duriug that awful hour.
Again, on the 24th of September
I waB with Dr. and Mrs. J. B. Fearn,
of Soochow, as they watched the life
of their only child ebb away. Little
Elizabeth Fearn was five years old,
and the darling of our whole com
munity. She was only sick about
four days, and yet her disease was
so violent that nothing could stop it,
Her mother and father both being
doctors, they knew the case was
hopeless, and as they held the little
one so tenderly in their arms or
watched beside the bed, they almost
wished for the end before it came,
so that their darling’s suffering would
be over. As I saw them struggling
with the grief which was almost
overpowering them,and yet so brave
through it all, I wondered who was
praying for them, whose heart was
in such close touch with God’s that
He could give warning of His ser
vant’s need, And God did answer
prayer that day. Before the little
one left this earth she had a vision
of the other world and exolaimed in
rapture over what she saw. That vis
ion is the parents’ sweetest memory
now, and I write this to ask you to
keep on remembering this childless
father and mother in prayer. As Dr.
John Fearn said to me just after we
had dressed Elizabeth for the last
time, “Pray that we may learn the
lesson that God means us to.”
So our prayers help in ways un
thought, and I hope that you, each,
will feel encouraged to pray more
earnestly, definitely and expectantly
than ever before.
This letter was interrupted in the
writing, and now that I am finishing
it, I want to tell you that I have
been moved from the Hospital
Home* where I lived last year,
across a part of this great city of
Soochow to the home of Misses At
kinson, Williams and Farrant. We
live in a large Chinese house a hun
dred years old, which originally had
forty rooms in it. It was rented by
Miss Atkinson six years ago as an
appropriate place to conduct her
large day school work. She has lived
there ever since, and the house is
full, having, besides our own rooms,
a number , of school rooms, a large
chapel where we have Sunday ser
vices and Wednesday afternoon
prayer meetings, and toward the
back of the house there are numer
ous rooniB for the Chinese. Several
teachers live on the place, one Bible
woman and a number of pupils who
board in the house.
They have their own dining room
and kitohen, as they eat Chinese
food, and our food is prepared as it
would be in America. Living is com
paratively cheap out here, so I never
suffer in that regard, and I do not
eat ratsl The Chinese do not eat
rats themselves so far as we are able
to see, and they are quite indignant
when it is said thatitbey do. I have
learned to like Chinese food very
much, and I am often invited to a
meal in a pupils home or the home
of a friend. I still find the “chop
sticks” hard to manage, and T won
der at the little children here who
are as skilled with these two plain
sticks as anyone could be with knife
and fork.
Perhaps it would help you to think
of me if I told you just what I do in
one day. When it is half past four
o’clock in the afternoon with you,
you may think of me as just getting
ilp on the next day, for our time is
about fourteen hours ahead of your’s.
We have our family prayers in Eng
lish and our breakfast at half past
seven, and our Chinese prayers at
half past eight. This last is for all
the people in the house, and a large
room is well filled. Little benches
from the school room are brought in
for the pupils to sit on. We have a
hymn, Bible reading, exposition, and
prayer. By that time it is nine
o'clock, ’and I study Chinese one
hour—working on my Sunday school
lesson or learning how to talk. Then
I go to an out-sehool we have about
three-quarters of a mile from here,
and there I teach English until half
past twelve. I am happy to tell you
two of my pupils were taken into the
ohurch recently,and others have giv
en their hearts to God. At half past
twelve we have our noon meal,and at
two o’clock I begin on Chinese again
—trying to learn to read the New
Testament in the Chinese character
whioh is used by the literary classes.
Last year I had to learn to read it in
the languge whioh is spoken by the
people, and the two are very differ
ent. Before ,the missionaries came
here the language as it was spoken
was never written, but only the very
hard forms whioh were liked by
soholars and yet never spoken even
by them.
Unless interrupted by callers, or
unless it is the day for a prayer
meeting, I study until almost five,
and we have our supper at six. We
conduct a night service for the older
boys in our schools on Sunday nights,
and on Saturday night we have a
prayer meeting in English for the
members of our missions who live
here in Soochow. This is held across
the city in the home where I used to
live, with Dr. Polk. Aside from this
my nights'are free, and yet full with
the necessary reading, studying and
writing. About half-past eight in
the morning you may think of me as
going to bed that night, and again
at four that afternoon I will be get
ting up next day.
I am perfeotly well in body now,
and most thankful to God for giving
me health and keeping me in spirit
ual strength. Since coming to China
I'have set apart a larger portion of
time than ever before to be given to
private communion with God, and as
I strive to keep these “watches” with
Him, God is preciously near.
I pray God’s blessings on eqch one
of you. That you may “know Him
and the power of His resurrection,
and the fellowship of His sufferings,
being made conformable unto His
death.” Phil. 3:10.
Yours with love,
Mary Cupper White.
January 20th, 1908.
Address: Miss Mary Culler White,
Sooohow, China.
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