Identifier: notablewomenofmo00burt (find matches)
Title: Notable women of modern China
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Burton, Margaret E. (Margaret Ernestine), b. 1885
Subjects: Women
Publisher: New York : Revell
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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recently written of her: She is winning her way into the hearts ofthe people in the Manchu settlement. Alwaysbright and cheerful, and ready to tell the Patient in Tribulation in Story, she is welcomed wherever she goes.When I think of her past life of ease as thedaughter, and later the wife, of an official, Imarvel at her spirit of consecration. Quietlyshe goes from house to house in search ofthose who are willing to listen. Miles she haswalked over the hot stone pavements. If mypeople will only believe in Christ, I shall bewell repaid, she says. A true Christian woman, whose couragehas flinched at no sacrifice, who has borne theloss of husband, mother, son, and property,and the reproaches of non-Christian relatives,with a peace and a faith unshakeable and con-vincing, Mrs. Ahok is accomplishing much bywhat she does, doubtless even more by whatshe is. DR. IDA KAHN I. Childhood in Three CountriesII. At the University of Michigan III. Seven Years in Kiukiang IV. Pioneer Work in Nanchang
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Dr. Ida Kahn DR. IDA KAHN CHILDHOOD IN THREE COUNTRIES BY the time little Ida Kahn first openedher eyes in Kiukiang, China, little girlshad become a drug on the market in herfamily. Her parents had long been eager fora son, but each of the five babies who hadcome was a daughter, and now this sixth onewas a little girl, too. According to Chinesecustom, they called in the old blind fortune-teller to declare her fate and give advice con-cerning her future. His verdict was discour-aging, for he told them that she must be killedor given away to another family, since as longas she remained in the home the long-desiredson would never come to them. The parentswere not willing to end the little life, so theydetermined to engage the baby to a little boyin a neighbouring family, and give her to thefamily of her betrothed to bring up. But whenthey called the fortune-teller again to ask hisjudgment on the proposed betrothal, he de-ns ii6 Dr. Ida Kahn dared that the Httle girl had been born underth

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