Letter from Henry to Edward, March 15, 1879

Letter from Henry to Edward, March 15, 1879

Health; Teething; Travel; Married people in missionary work; Children of missionaries; School buildings; Presbyterian church buildings; Baptism; Christian converts; Boarding schools

In this letter, Henry discusses the health of his family members. His mother is feeling better, Mattie has not been well in the past three days, and his baby is teething. Henry writes that he found that San Ui, where he traveled in February, was quite changed compared to the last time that he had been there. He tells Edward about the Board's plans to set up a school and a chapel in San Ui. Henry mentions that they have had several applicants for baptism. He also writes about his school and chapel in Canton and says that he has been thinking of making people who attend pay for their own rice.

Noyes, Henry Varnum

Loose, The College of Wooster, Special Collections, Noyes Collection

Unpublished

1879-03-15

Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Special Collections Grant

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Canton March 15th 1879
Dear Bro Edward
It is so long since I wrote
home last that I almost forgot
whom I wrote to but I think it was
Mother. I am so glad she is feeling so
much better. I was away to tea last
night and so must write what I can
this morning. We are all quite well.
Baby was having considerable trouble with
his teeth awhile ago but is getting along
nicely now. Some of them are coming
through and I presume is worst trouble
is over. Mattie is feeling not quite so
well for the past two or three days owing
I presume to the weather which has not
been very favorable. I spoke about our
country trip in Feb. We had a very pleas
ant trip. I found considerable change
in San Ui. There were 9 church
members of our church present at
communion and three from the
English Wesleyan Church besides Mr Henry
my self + wife so we had quite a [?goodly?]
minister. Last year a large temple was
rented but the chapel had not yet
been moved into it. There is a good
sized piece of ground behind it +
the Board had already authorized the
money for putting up a school building
So I made a bargain with a man to
put up the school building + put the
chapel all in order for $182-. I suppose
it is nearly done by this time. I expect to
go down and open the chapel a week from next Sabbath

This gives us a very good arrangement
there. The building is just at the outside
of the city so that from rear of the
yard I can go out and away among
the hills without getting into the city at
all. The front of the chapel is on
a very good street leading from
the East gate of the city to a large
business place some five miles
away called Kong [?Mim?]. There
is always a good deal of passing
during the day and so the
place is a very favorable one
for a chapel. There were two
applicants for baptism who were
received and two children
were also baptized. I have no
doubt ^but we shall organize a
church there during the year
The second station Chik Hom
is somewhat more than a days journey
beyond San Ui. It was opened
last year. It is a large market
town. There was one applicant
for baptism there who professes to
be much pleased with the doctrine
and appeared very well. He lived
at some distance and [--th--] as he
had not told his father yet about the

matter concluded to wait till some
other time before being baptized.
Here in Canton besides my
old chapel I have a school in
the building behind the house. It
is a day school or boys - have
now 30 on the roll and about
25 in regular attendance. I am
trying the experiment of requiring
any who come here to [illegible] to
pay for their own rice. I think likely
I may get some scholars after awhile
as boarders to live in [--the--] house.
All the downstairs part of the
house is now occupied and a
beginning made up stairs so
that I shall have use for all
the room. The front of the
building up stairs where the girls
used to study I have taken for
my study as it is better situated
to get the light and breeze than
the room in the house.
We are now having more
or less rainy wEather and I suppose
will have for the next three months.
Dr Sarah Anderson is with us now
on a visit but expects to go to
Soochow as her permanent location

I saw Hattie last night at Dr
Graves. She seems about as usual
Bella wishes me to send her love
to you all. Dr S seems to
retain a pleasant recollection
of her visit at our home How
glad I would be to see you
all. Now I will cose as
my pencil needs sharpening
and I find I have not a
knife with me I expect the
girls will [illegible] that I do not
I notice Mattie last [Note: page crumpled, unable to read]
quite a pile of letters in her
bureau to go to day.
Good bye for this time
with my much
love to all
Your Aff Bro
-Henry-



广州 1879 年 3 月 15 日
亲爱的爱德华兄弟
好久没写了
我差点忘记的最后一次回家
我写信给谁，但我认为是
母亲。我很高兴她有这种感觉
好多了。我上次出去喝茶了
晚上，所以必须写我能写的
今天早上。我们都很好。
宝宝有相当大的麻烦
不久前他的牙齿，但相处得很好
现在很好。他们中的一些人来了
通过，我认为是最糟糕的麻烦
结束了。马蒂感觉不太好
过去两三天还好
我想天气还没有
非常有利。我谈到了我们的
2 月的乡村旅行。我们非常高兴
蚂蚁之旅。我发现了相当大的变化
在三义。有9个教堂
我们教会的成员出席
圣餐和三个从
亨利先生之外的英国卫斯理教堂
我的自己和妻子，所以我们过得很好
部长。去年有一座大寺庙
租了，但教堂还没有
被搬进去了。有一个很好的
它后面的一块大小的地面和
董事会已经授权
建校舍的钱
所以我和一个男人做了一个交易
把教学楼盖起来，把
教堂都为了 182 美元-。我想
这时候差不多完成了。我希望
从下一个安息日起一周下来打开教堂

这给了我们一个很好的安排
那里。大楼就在外面
城市，以便从后方
院子里我可以出去走走
没有进入城市的山丘
全部。教堂的前面是
一条非常好的街道，从
城东门到一个大
大约五英里的商业场所
远方叫康敏。那里
总是很顺利
白天等等
地方是一个非常有利的地方
一个小教堂。有两个
申请洗礼的人
收到和两个孩子
也受洗了。我没有
怀疑，但我们将组织一个
一年中的教堂
第二站积坎
有点多一天的路程
超越三义。它被打开了
去年。这是一个很大的市场
镇。有一个申请人
在那里受洗的人自称
对教义感到非常满意
并且看起来非常好。他住
在一段距离和他
还没有告诉他父亲

事情结束要等到一些
受洗前的其他时间。
除了我在广州
老教堂，我有一所学校
房子后面的建筑。它
是走读学校还是男孩 - 有
现在 30 岁左右
25 人定期出席。我是
尝试要求的实验
任何来这里 [无法辨认] 的人
自己买大米。我认为可能
过一段时间我可能会得到一些学者
作为寄宿生住在房子里。
楼下的所有部分
房子现在被占用了
开始上楼梯所以
我对所有人都有用
房间。的前面
在女孩们的地方建造楼梯
我曾经学习过
我的书房，因为它的位置更好
比得到光和微风
房子里的房间。
我们现在拥有更多
或者少雨的天气，我想
将在接下来的三个月内。
莎拉·安德森博士现在和我们在一起
正在访问，但希望去
东吴是她的永久居所

昨晚我在格雷夫斯医生那里见到了海蒂。她似乎和往常一样
贝拉希望我送她的爱
给你们。 S博士似乎
留住美好的回忆
她在我们家的访问如何
很高兴见到你
全部。现在我会因为
我的铅笔需要削尖
我发现我没有
刀和我一起，我期待
女孩会 [无法辨认] 我不会
我最后注意到 Mattie [注：页面皱巴巴，无法阅读]
她身上有一大堆信
局去的一天。
这次再见
和我的很多
爱所有
你深情的兄弟
-亨利-

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