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Title: Calvin Wilson Mateer, forty-five years a missionary in Shantung, China; a biography
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Fisher, Daniel Webster, 1838-1913
Subjects: Mateer, Calvin Wilson, 1836-1908
Publisher: Philadelphia, The Westminster press
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e low rooms withearthen floors and the bedsteads were of dry mud.The letter continues: Teaching the boys their regular lessons is but asmall part of the work to be done in such a school asours. Ways and means have to be provided to havetheir food bought and properly cooked. The cookmust be prevented from stealing it, and the boysfrom wasting it. Their clothes have to be made inproper season, and mended and washed, and the boyswatched that they do not destroy them. Then eachboys grievances have to be heard and his quarrelsexamined into and settled. Bad boys have to beexhorted or reproved, and perhaps punished and everypossible means used, and that constantly, to make theboys obedient and truthful and honest. We alsostrive to train them to habits of industry, persever-ance, and seK-reHance, without which their educationwill do them no good. Thus you see that to train upthese boys so that they shall become good and usefulmen requires a great deal of labor, patience, andfaith, and prayer.
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i THE TENGCHOW SCHOOL 141 These are homely details, but we cannot overlookthem, and understand the Hfe of the Mateers in itsconnection with this work. Discipline in any school composed of so many boysand of such varied age could not be an easy task;in this Chinese school it was peculiarly perplexing.There were some unusual incidents. Falsehood,stealing, quarreling, gluttony, and even sodomy wereoffenses that had to be dealt with according to thecircumstances attending each case. One instance ofdiscipHne was so distinctively Chinese that the descrip-tion of it by Mateer in his Journal deserves a placehere. Under date of April 9, 1869, he wrote: One very distressing thing has happened within amonth. Leon Chin Chi was being persecuted by hisfather in relation to the matter of his marriage engage-ment with Shang Yuin, when in a fit of desperation hewent and bought opium, and took it to kill himself.Some of the boys suspected him, and went to see.They found him lying on his bed evidently i

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