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inland Mission 9 Woo This Tittle pamphlet of just pages and could be read in Hire osser half an hour. It is something more than a hook to the present writer for he knew "Mason Kwangchow" quite well aad is glad to see this testimony to his: friend. Mason of Kwangchow was. hot a genius, nor a striking personality, mor even "a well known missionary." Ie was quite an ordinary person and a thousand such could Ie met with on this same China field and pass unnoticed by the wy_man in the street. And herein Hes the value of this. biography fe it not only tells the story of a well spent life but it tells how any reader of the little ook might attain to the sgme usefulness "and,—possibl fragrant a record of an unselfish and fruitful life as did the mas who never in his wildest drear [supposed that anyone would tal the trouble (9 tell the world of his achievements or, indeed, supposed there was any achievement for anyone to write of.
Mr. Mason was born in the Tittle ith its village green, its th's forge and chesnut tree wooden mill on the river'
Ouse. At the age of seventeen he: Wecume a solicitor's clerk and a Tater passed through the exence of conversion and begs a local (unpaid) preacher. call of the mission field and crime to China in 1891 shen he was just twenty years of ae. One scarcely knows "whether the mao himself or the mission that. sent him out, n youth rather than a man, had' the more far-tecing faith, Mason was sent to Kansas records, what was then, a common missionary experience, the early hours of the mier he daninabe stall wae daily works What eon inure ie in agony ime" "After T tot back General had relers to attack the fore mers but excused himgelt "the guns get so hot during the warm weather," a tame, but He was later th the authorities.
Viceroy named that whew you, are prea he Chines ae a lat he. pleaded. was surely 2 strange sight tone could Rave looked upon it.
Hen Governor of two pro:
man who bad the power of lite and death over some thirty tnilficn people, kneelinse on the floor hgo while a "foreign devil"
lunary prayed to the God he never beard of to save his son's ewe resume Mason's story, Trt nw and se 1 rose feem agen fell Ona. bunch ming' on the wail, These T* what was But fmt he takes the tight cles are not ime possible.
Let us see what was the sequel this episode,
vwany excasions tw take friends 1 in thy What tie ail glad you gland Done sues thing sen tary, why Show bow during the terrible 1900. The parently, already re secret orders concerning the ayi= proaching nawsacre but dared wot pertens in the neighbouring province of Shansi, must of them being put to death in the courtyard of the Viceroy's Yamen and some Salling by his own hand, it will be seen what a valuable asset ras the friendship Mr, Mason had aceidentally—veas it ace formed with the Viceroy of maybe worth while reaaling, too, that Yushsien, the infamous Governor of SI to Turkert the failure of the boxer movement and that when had reached this very city of Lanchow, in wh Mr. Mason had been #0 often cursed as a "foreign by his was cuz in the market place the wen of the early: mornin avoid publicity. Another may be added, siding in of the Province of Shensi. toty, miss just and the monet missionaries in his did not seck to thrust if upon the attention of the win which he chief was that hie exe was single amd he: dich daily sk looking for no reward other than the li done" the Master he come to China to serve. vil
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