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Title: A'Chu and other stories
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Anderson, Emma Maria (Thompson), Mrs., 1865- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Takoma Park, Washington, D.C., Review & Herald publishing assn.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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of the Far East — the land ofSinim. This is the name China is called by theprophet Isaiah. Though he saw his own people ■—Gods people, too — going into captivity because oftheir sins and their unfaithfulness to Jehovah; andthough he beheld the kingdom in which God had setthem to be a light, given as a spoil to the heathen,yet the prophet was still strong in faith. In thepresence of that calamity which was soon to sweepaway his nation, he prophesied that God would againgather to himself a people from all parts of theearth, and with that multitude he saw a companywhom he called these from the land of Sinim.This is the best of all names, because it is coupledwith a promise that the Chinese shall yet hear theglad news, and that many shall come from the East to sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, inthe kingdom of heaven. When we say, Thy kingdom come, let everyheart pray for a blessing upon the men and women inChina who are striving to bring the fulfilment of thispromise.
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CANTON FROM DAY TO DAY THE city of Canton has a population of two andone-half million. It is the largest city of SouthChina. This is where our home is. All about us arestrange faces that look so much alike to us becauseevery person has black hair and black eyes. Fromevery direction come the musical tones of a strangespeech that baffles our understanding. On all sides issuffering we would like to relieve and sorrow we wouldlike to comfort. On all sides we see the effects of ig-norance and terrible superstition which only the gospelcan uproot. But before we can gain the confidence of the Chi-nese people, or even become acquainted with them, wemust learn to speak with them in their own nativespeech. It will take a long time to learn to speakwell, but it will take a yet longer time, our teachersays, to get acquainted with Chinese ways of doingand thinking so that we can teach the message wehave come to bring, without offending the people whohear. This great city is just the place to live

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