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Title A name given to the resource Correspondence from Martha Noyes Kerr Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Kerr, Martha Noyes Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The College of Wooster, Special Collections, <a href="https://www.wooster.edu/academics/libraries/collections/collections/historical/noyes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Noyes Collection</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Unpublished Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Special Collections Grant Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/en/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource eng (English) Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Description An account of the resource These are letters from Martha Noyes Kerr. Many of the letters were written during her time as a missionary and her marriage to John Glasgow Kerr. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1874-1914 Subject The topic of the resource Letters; Women missionaries; Women in missionary work; Travel; Marriage; Schools; Physicians' spouses; Physicians; Women teachers; Psychiatric hospitals; Hospitals Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document If I have made any mistake he corrects it so I can be sure I am right. It is very hard to say what you mean always. Now if I say shun in a high tone it means a person's body, but in a low tone it means God. Then I can pronounce Shi so it will mean book or tree hot weather a cottage in fact 30 different things and yet I say Shi every time. But my little girls are generally very attentive, and can already tell me a great deal about how Christ came into the world to save sinners. Besides this story we talk about, I give them a verse each Sunday which they learn, then the next time they come I hear them say it. Now I must tell you that not one of these 6 little girls has ever missed of having her verse perfectly which I think is very nice indeed. I will put one of these verses into this letter so you can see what they look like. I am sure some of those bright little eyes in your school would like to look at it You see it is on red paper The Chinese think red is the nicest of all colors so have our verses written on red paper to please them better Now I begin at the character marked 1 to read and go right down the straight line to 5 then from 6 to 10. you see we do not read straight across the page as you do. This is the passage "Resist the devil and he will flee from you" but in Chinese this is what it says. "You fight the devil then he leave you" We have just had the pictures of the smallest class in Hattie's school taken and my class is all there but one so I think I must send the photo and let you see them Those standing with Afung in the left hand corner are the ones I call my girls. Atsit the one standing and holding a book is always ready to tell me if she does not understand what I am saying, so if I get through the lesson without her once saying "I do not understand your words" I feel quite happy Achan the next one says she is very anxious to learn [u] soon [/u] about Christ so she can love him. Only think she never heard any thing about Jesus until this sum- mer. She is a very dear little girl and I feel sure Christ will help her to become a Christian The next two are sisters from the country. When they asked to come to the school {Boarding school} it was so full Hattie did not know how she could have them but we are very glad they are here Afung is a very smart child. The Sabbath School in Wayne give the money to buy her food and clothes. The next little one is the scholar you support. Of course I think a great deal of her. You see she has little feet as have 5 of the others and she often suffers much pain but her Mother wants her to be a lady so of course she can not let her feet grow large When I hear lessons in the boarding school she often fans me during the whole afternoon We think little Akin is already one of Jesus' own children and we hope all these pupils will soon love the Saviour. You would not think the youngest one in the picture was 12 years old but she is, and the oldest 14. Well I must not write any more or I fear some of the little boys or girls will think this long letter will never come to an end. I hope you are having a nice school this summer, and that every one tries to be there every Sunday. I did not tell you we have about 50 in our Sunday School. I think of you very often just how all the different classes looked last summer when I was at home and I hope you will sometimes think of us and pray for these dear little ones who have had no one to teach them about God. I often think I [Continued vertically on the first page] would give almost anything to see the class I had last Summer once more May God bless them all wherever they go and in whatever they engage. And may every scholar love Jesus so if we never meet on earth we shall see each other in heaven Your loving Friend Mattie Noyes Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Letter Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Section of a letter from Martha Subject The topic of the resource Christian education of girls; Church schools; Language transfer (Language learning) Description An account of the resource In this letter, Mattie writes about the difficulty she has with the language and how the school children ask her to repeat herself when she makes mistakes. She tells the reader about the young girls at her school and sends a picture with a detailed description. She is very hopeful that they will be saved through Christ. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Kerr, Noyes Martha Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The College of Wooster, Special Collections,<a href="https://www.wooster.edu/academics/libraries/collections/collections/historical/noyes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> Noyes Collection</a>, Box #3 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Unpublished Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Unknown Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Special Collections Grant Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource eng (English) Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context noyes_c_cor_728 Chinese characters Christianity converts foot binding girl students photographs proselytizing teachers women missionaries