p. 32 | Twenty Years Among China’s Millions

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 3, 1910

Twenty Years Among China’s Millions

“TWENTY years ago a layman laid aside his pen at six o’clock one evening on his office desk in the city of Louisville, Ky., and set out for China the day after. To-day in the heart of China he spends eight months of every year in a small house-boat, which is so low that he can not stand upright in it; so narrow that he can stretch out his hands, and touch the edge on either side. He is the only missionary among a million starving souls, and he told the writer on the occasion of his last furlough in America that these have been the twenty best and happiest years of his life, which he would not exchange with any of the members of his former firm, who have since become men of wealth in material things, but who are poverty-stricken toward God.”