"Myriads of them, and one white-faced, retiring, half-afraid young man! ... Fortunately the conceit is not limited to one side. ... However much [the Chinese] may hitherto have disliked change, he nevertheless does change, and, as time passes, both he and the youth lose something of their inherent self-conceit, and fill the empty corner with mutual respect and even esteem."
— William Edward Soothill
Source: A Mission in China (Edinburgh and London: Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier, 1907), ch. "Pioneering," pp. 14-15
Language, prayer, foreign land, soul, suffering, brotherhood
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