Farwell to China After 37 Years of Ningpo With the departure tow lay for Home of the Ven. Archdeacon and Mrs. Moule, there will be no male representative left in China—although we believe there is still a Miss Moule "somewhere in the interior"—of family that has been famous for very many decades in Chinese missionary and educational work.
Archdeacon W..S. Moule was the nephew of Bishop Moule and son of another Archdeacon, well remem-ered by the older residents, who wrote some of the most charming verse in one of the most ubominably crabbed handwritings that ever came Into this office. The present Archdeacon is a" younger brother of an elder of Willie Moule, headmaster of the Angl Chinese Seb and athlete, who retired to England 'a few months ago, From Monkton Combe in Some set Archdeacon Moule went, accor ing to family tradition, to Corpus|: College, Cambridge, and from there (also" recording to tradition) came, 37 years ago, to Ningpo Vice-Principal of Trinity College under Mr, Here, afterwards Bishop of Hongkong, who met his death by when out in a mission the grea: typhoon of 1906.
wun Moule succeeded him ax the College and Theological School attached to it, and in thin quiet sborle he has remained all through the 37 years, training young Chinese ax pastors and dehooltenchers, The Boxer Year rays himself that his life has lacking: in adventure excepting slays for the Boxer year when indeed it way "touch and go" for the missionaries, The Governor of Ningpo received two teloyerams from Pekinge—illustrative of the divided counsels which swayed the Empress Dowayer's Court—one telling him to protect the m. sionaries, the other to Kill them, He took these to the 'Commissioner of Customs, n German ramed Mullenlortf, who advised him to act upon' the Srat. So the Governor did. Yet at Juchow in Chekiang, the missionaries were slaughtered and Archdeacon Moule says that even in Ningpo a foreigner going through the streets would hear angry evils of "kill, kill" remembers one nigh, 1 going to the elussroom, foun stead of the cheerful uproar, there was 'a silence thut might be felt" Te was told thay that night the' massacre war believed rioing to take place. The chief preeeupation of the time, he says, was to get all the boys and girly from the College (they were Christians of course) back to their homes. Somehow it way managed, by' devious ways and with great diMiculty, Even in these times Archdeacon Moule says that there was never any shadow of personal hostility from Chinese to foreigners whom they knew. He and his family resolved to go for the summer to a little mountain cottage to be out of the way: and here, among people who Knew them, it would never have been supposed that all China was in a tu: wail. But they heard that a flight tom Ningpo was beginning and so buck they went to do what they could to check panic.
Like all who know the Chinese Archdeacon Moule speaks of them with the deepest affection, whether they were fellow workers or merely business acquaintance. Just before he left Ningpo, the head of the Chair Hong (with whose members more thas perhaps, there are likely to be altercations over fares) came and presented him with a vast basket of eggs. It was not exactly 4 convenient present, but the intention was too kindly for it to be refused.
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