"The electric fluid pervades all nature; but was it not in Christendom that it came forth like the flames of Pentecost to create a new era and to supply a new source of light and power? Its energy is no longer restricted to the land of its birth, nor is the renovating power of the Holy Spirit, which in due time may be expected to put new life into the dry bones of the old systems of China."
— W. A. P. Martin
Source: A Cycle of Cathay (1896), Part II, ch. V "Pilgrimage to the Tomb of Confucius"
Darkness, Science, Law, Nation, Truth
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"Born into a Presbyterian pastor's family, Harriet Newell Noyes arrived in Canton in 1868 and ministered there for some fifty years, most of that time in educational work. Within two months of her arrival she opened a girls' day school near Canton with Chinese Christian women as teachers, and in 1872 she organized what became True Light Seminary and served as its first principal. In the period she was associated with the school it trained 6,000 women to become Bible women, teachers and leaders among the women of China."
— Ralph R. Covell, Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity
Source: BDCC, "Noyes, Harriet Newell" (reprinted from Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions)