"A few days were sufficient to transform this sad youth into one whose whole being, spirit, soul, and body, was irradiated with a new life. He read the Scriptures as one who found great treasure."
— Mildred Cable & Francesca French
Source: Through Jade Gate and Central Asia (1927), ch. XIV
Christ, Power, Life
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""It always means suffering to be a pioneer in any work and in any land. But for the sake of those who are to follow in the way you have trod, can you not bear it?" ... "Go home every vacation and tell your villagers that it is for love of a new-found God that you remove the bandages which deform the body he claims for his temple. Keep on telling, and after a while they will understand, and you will have served your Savior and made things easier for all other girls who shall unbind their feet.""
— Mary Porter Gamewell
Source: Her words to her pupil Sarah Wang, in E. D. Hubbard, Under Marching Orders: A Story of Mary Porter Gamewell (1909)
"The Boxers seized her at her home, and as they dragged her through the streets she said: "This is my time of suffering, but it will be brief; then I shall have an eternity of joy." ... they hacked her poor body into little fragments. Mrs. T'ang was beyond caring for that; her "eternity of joy" had begun."
— Luella Miner
Source: China's Book of Martyrs (1903), p. 314, on Mrs. T'ang of T'ungchou
"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)
"In social service the Christian women will be able to mold those outside of their immediate home sphere. Already an army of Bible-women and day school teachers are scattered throughout the length and breadth of the land and are bringing light and life to thousands of homes which would be otherwise cut off from all means of advancement, intellectual as well as spiritual; nurses, doctors, and higher grade teachers are also adding their quota of enlightenment and you have a leaven of immeasurable value in the development of the country."
— Ida Kahn (Kang Cheng)
Source: "The Place of Chinese Christian Women in the Development of China," The Chinese Recorder 50 (October 1919): 659–662
Christ, Life, Church, Illness, Cross, Service
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"The Swedish missionary Theodore Hamberg (1819-1854) arrived in Hong Kong in 1847 under the Basel Mission and worked with Karl Gutzlaff's Chinese Union. He found that many of its Chinese preachers did not understand the message of salvation, and some were opium smokers who sold their tracts back to the printers; favoring a more careful approach to conversion, he discharged all but a handful of them. He went on to build up a church among the Hakka, instructed Hong Rengan, who was baptized in 1853, and from Hong Rengan's account wrote The Visions of Hung-Siu-Tshuen, and Origin of the Kwang-si Insurrection (1854)."
— Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity
Source: BDCC, "Theodore Hamburg" by Laura Mason (bdcconline.net)