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The heart of a continent : vol.1 |
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Then we made our way back to the drawing-room, and as
the novelty of a return to civilization wore off, we felt more
and more the genial influences around us. The Scottish are
always hospitable, but few even of them could have exceeded
in hospitality these missionaries at Mukden. Mrs. Webster
was incessantly at work devising some fresh form of comfort
for us—at one time making up a cosy room for each of us,
at another producing every kind of clothing, and at another
bringing out the most astonishing variety of Scottish cakes
and scones and muffins.
This Scottish mission is established with a special object,
and on lines different from most other missions. The object
is to try and get at the Chinese officials and gentry; to preach
to the lower classes as well, but to make an especial attempt
to get in touch with the gentry and upper classes of society.
With this object, highly trained men are sent out, and the
mission is established with some "style," though I use this
word not to imply any particularly luxurious surroundings,
but rather to impress the difference from the extremely
simple and plain establishment of other missions which I
have seen. It is recognized that Chinese officials are
reluctant to mix freely with men who live in very humble
houses and dress indifferently, and it is thought that men
who adopt a higher style of living and dress will have more
chance of meeting with these sensitive Chinamen. It is,
moreover, considered by the heads of this mission that men
will work better in a distant land if they are accompanied by
their wives to cheer and encourage them and help on the
mission work by teaching children. It is part, too, of the
general line of action that at each mission station there should
also be a missionary doctor, through whom first access
may be gained to men who might otherwise never be
approachable.
This class of mission does not inspire the same amount of
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