国立情報学研究所 - ディジタル・シルクロード・プロジェクト
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Among the Celestials : vol.1 | |
天の間で : vol.1 |
38 AMONG THE CELESTIALS. [CHAP. II.
on our part, had not met a European for
several months now, so the delight of this
meeting may be well imagined. But, apart
from that, we were very deeply impressed by
the men themselves. Few men, indeed, have
ever made a deeper impression on me than did
these simple missionaries. They were standing,
transparent types of all that is best in man.
They seemed to diffuse an atmosphere of pure
genuine goodness which made itself felt at
once. And we recognised immediately that
we were not only with good but with real men.
What they possessed was no weak sentimen-
tality or flashy enthusiasm, but solid human
worth. Far away from their friends, from all
civilisation, they lived, and worked, and died ;
two, indeed, out of the three we met in those
parts, have died since we left. When they left
France, they left it for good ; they had no
hope of return ; they went out for their whole
lives.
These missionaries may not make many
converts, but they do good. No man, China-
man or European, who came in contact for
five minutes with M. Raguit, M. Card, or
M. Riffard, whom we afterwards met, could
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