David Hill; Missionary and Saint (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1898 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER V WUCHANG ON the return of Messrs. Cox and Hill from Japan, two great disappointments met them. Letters were received from the Mission-House ordering the evacuation of Kiukiang. This Yangtsze town, near the mouth of the Foyang Lake, the natural mart of a large tea-growing district, bade fair to offer a most promising field. The stern necessities of retrenchment, however, forbade the commencement of new enterprises, and the Chairman was ordered to transfer the ground he had purchased to the M. E. Church of America. Under its auspices the Mission has since been well and munificently supported, and with its large school and important church stands to-day a monument of the value of the division of labour. To the Wesleyan Church has been left the more unhealthy and physically trying work inland in its original province of Hupeh. This destruction of the original plan was a great blow, but the same mail brought news of another disappointment which touched Hill keenly. For some reason connected with finance the two men chosen for Central China, Messrs. F. P. Napier and Sylvester Whitehead, were sent to Canton instead, and the n young Mission was left to face its work without increase of staff. This interference with arrangements and promises roused something like rebellion in the minds of the disappointed workers in Hankow; in Hill's case there was an added pain, for Napier was an old college friend, and he had been living upon the idea of entering together with him into Wuchang. The strenuous remonstrances made at headquarters had final effect, but it was not till a year later that we find Hill joyously greeting his old companion, transferred from Canton to the scene of his original choice. It was thus with an anxious and disappointed heart that the year 1...