Identifier: cycleofcathayor00mart (find matches)
Title: A cycle of Cathay, or, China, south and north
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Martin, W. A. P. (William Alexander Parsons), 1827-1916
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Publisher: New York, F.H. Revell
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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wives. I conclude with two names, more eminent than any of thepreceding—Robert Hart, and Hudson Taylor. From a bud-ding interpreter the former has blossomed into the famousstatesman known as the Great I. G. His career, to whichthere is no parallel in the East or West, will be further noticedin connection with Peking. The latter, who rules as manymen, and with a sway not less absolute, is the Loyola of Prot-estant missions. When I first met him he was a mystic absorbedin religious dreams, waiting to have his work revealed—notidle, but aimless. When he had money he spent it on charityto needy Chinese, and then was reduced to sore straits himself.When the vocation found him it made him a new man, withiron will and untiring energy. He erred in leading his follow-ers to make war on ancestral worship, instead of seeking toreform it; still, in founding and conducting the China InlandMission, he has made an epoch in the history of missionaryenterprise. il PART II LIFE IN NORTH CHINA I 215
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