China by A. C. Selmon

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 16, 1906

China

By A. C. Selmon

SIANG-CHENG.—In a few days I shall have some men here to study the Bible. One is a convert, but I am just teaching him to read the Bible. One is a man from the China Inland Mission, and he must be taught the Bible truth from the very first. Mrs. Selmon has her girls' school, and she has to teach some every day. She is also instructing the native woman teacher. When we opened the work here, this woman could not read a single character. In addition, there are the sick people, some of whom come from a distance of twenty and twenty-five miles, and we must help them.

We have a thoroughly reliable man, who could be trusted in everything; but it is a well-known fact that a Chinaman can not handle Chinamen very well; and, besides, he is a young man.

So you see that for us to go away for a while during the hot season would be almost like neglecting an infant for the same length of time. Most of these difficulties are peculiar to a new work, and would not be met with, of course, where a work had been established for any number of years. A. C. SELMON.