Author : Evanston Ives Hart
Release : 2013-09
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Book Synopsis Virgil C. Hart; Missionary Statesman, Founder of the American and Canadian Missions in Central and West China by : Evanston Ives Hart
Download or read book Virgil C. Hart; Missionary Statesman, Founder of the American and Canadian Missions in Central and West China written by Evanston Ives Hart. This book was released on 2013-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ... THROUGH the generosity of the Rev. J. F. Goucher, D.D., the well-known educationist of Baltimore, the Methodist Episcopal Church was enabled to open a mission in West China in the year 1882, and the Rev. L. N. Wheeler, D.D., formerly Superintendent of the North China Methodist Mission, was asked to lead the new undertaking. The City of Chungking, in the Province of Szechwan, with its seven hundred thousand inhabitants, was selected as the headquarters of the new mission. Chungking stands in the same relation to West China as Hankow does to the Central Provinces. It is the great distributing point for the upper river, and through it passes the traffic of sixty millions of people with the outside world. After many months of property-hunting, Dr. Wheeler succeeded in purchasing within the city a favourable site. The old Chinese buildings which stood upon it were repaired and used for chapel, school and residential purposes. From the opening of the work the interest was widespread and crowds attended the Sunday services. In 1886 a line new property was purchased three miles from the city upon the main road leading to Chentu. Here they intended to build residences, a hospital, a chapel and boys' and girls' schools. Shortly after the buildings had been commenced, the military students came up to Chungking for their triennial examinations, and as they were anti-foreign in spirit, soon set afloat all sorts of absurd rumours about the newly acquired mission property. The new houses, they declared, were to be forts from which cannon would be turned upon the city to destroy it. They pretended to have found a book which told of a dragon whose head was in one river and whose tail was in another, a mile away. The mission buildings, they stated, were...