IIIFカラー高解像度
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 |
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引用情報
io8 AMONG THE CELESTIALS. [CHAP. V.
hospitality shown me. Mr. Clarke had been
established here for two years now, and was, I
believe, the first permanent missionary to reside
in the place. I had not before met a member
of the China Inland Mission in his home, and
consequently was especially interested in hearing
Mr. Clarke's account of his work. The zeal
and energy which this mission shows is mar-
vellous. Its members dress as Chinamen, live
right away in the interior, in the very heart of
China, and make it their endeavour to get
really in touch with the people. They receive
no regular pay, but as money comes in to the
mission, enough is sent them to cover the bare
expenses of living. Often, through the lack of
funds, they are on the point of starving, and
Mrs. Clarke told me how, upon one occasion,
she had been for two or three weeks with
literally no money and no food, so that she had
to beg her way and sell her clothes to raise
money as best she could till money arrived
from head-quarters.
Preparations for crossing the Gobi Desert to
Hami, the first town in Chinese Turkestan, had
now to be made. Kwei-hwa-cheng was the last
town in this direction, and the starting-point
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