A proud father. The mother, more retiring, hides behind.
Pounding rice to remove the husk. The rice is in a hole in the ground, and
the pounder presses on a lever with his foot. On releasing it, the stone
weight crushes the rice.
The patient ox, doing his wearisome stint of grinding grain.
Rickshaws along a flooded river front. Buckets for carrying water.
The steamer coming to the wharf. Coolies jumping over before the gang
plank is laid.
44019 The Gospel of the Cigarette. A long lone of 23 wagons unloading at
the warehouse of the B+A Tobacco Co. directly in front of the Methodist Episcopal Mission
Compound in Peking. This scene is on Hsiao Hsun Hu Tung, our outlet to the
Hatamen great street. The gatehouse and front gate of the mission are seen
in the background of the picture.
43361 An almost daily view taken from the front gate of our Mission. After
having seen the enormous qyantities of cigarettes unloaded at this one
warehouse all the past winter it is easy to believe that the motto of the
B+A Tobacco Co.: "A cigarette in the mouth of every Chinese man, woman, and
child", is being realized.
The magnificent gateways of Peking are defaced by the omnipresent
cigarette sign. This is the Yung Ting Men gate, at the southern end of
Chien Men Street, just south of the Temple of Heaven.
Yung-au Bible Conference after work had been opened six years (1913). In a
native house over 200 years old used as a chapel, just about to be torn
down to make room for the new Hospital Foundation of which can be seen in
the background...
A certain man had two sons. The younger of them said to his father,
"Father, give me the potion of thy substance that falleth to me". (Two
teachers stand in the background).
The younger son departs with his burden-bearer though his father is
retraining him.
Tsao wan Jung, preacher at Wang kwan ying, Chentzuchen Circuit, Lanksien
District, China Conference.
14707 The new Wesley Church dedicated by Bishop Bashford, October 18,
1914. Tientsin.
14704 Chao Shih Ming, preacher at Ting Sin hi, Lanhsien District, North
China Conference.
Meeting held Sept. 22-26 inside the "Forbidden City", Peking, adjacent to
Central Gate. Matt Pavilion seats 5000 and was filled. The site was ? by
the Board of Communication. The Board of War gave 200 ?. The Board of
Education gave a half-holiday to 5000 government students.
Mr. Mi Chung Kao, aged 70, for fifty years under Manchu Government employ,
and now Chief Secretary in the Custom House. His only son, Mi Chen Yi, is
also working for the Chinese Republic. The latter is a Christian.
14791 Mr. Men-Shih-tsin, Head of Foreign Affairs Bureau, Cheki ang
Province.
The village of Amigca, Hinghua, China. This entire village of more than
100 people, 40 of whom appear in the picture, were won to Christ by a
student in the Hinghwa Biblical School. So far as I know, this is the first
entire village in all our work that has been won to Christ. (T.S. Carson,
Principal Hiughwa Biblical School).
21439 Old Lady Mang preaching on the street when 82 years old.
21446 May 11, 1915. First anniversary of the opening of the Industrial
Agricultural School for Boys. Rev. Mong Geng Huo, President of the Board of
Education, in the foreground, undoubtedly one of the noblest of Chinese men.
Hatamen Street, Peking. Well and wheelbarrow for water.
Near Pei Tai Ho.
This is Peking University during the trouble caused by the Chinese
Revolution. These are army wagons and animals, and the soldiers are making
sandbags.
Meeting during the Eddy Campaign at Mintsing, China. This picture shows
the central section of the audience in one of the meetings. The small boys
in the foreground are students in Chinese gentry schools of the higher
primary grade. Toward the middle and rear are adult business men, teachers,
farmers, etc. This picture shows about one-half the total number in the
meeting. The meeting was held in a large temple by permission of the
literary gentry. Out of site in the background are the temple gods.
14801 Eddy Meeting at Mintsing, China. A view of the platform with the
speaker (in foreign clothes), the secretaries at the tables, the chairman
and other assistants.
14720 Chengtu Hospital Methodist EpiscopalM. as seen from the M.F.M.S. property across
the street. The clock on the tower has made a place for itself among the
people. At night it may be heard for long distances. On a clear day from
this clock tower, the fathest west in China, snow clad hills of Thibet may
be seen rising.
14721 Our street in Chengtu between our property and that of the M.F.M.S.
As may be seen it is a much travelled street. Our pastor, Li Dsang Cien,
sitting on a bench to the left, is talking to some of his neighbors.
14722 Girls' Boarding School. Property of M.F.M.S. Chengty, as seen from
the Chengtu Hospital across the street. In the distance may be seen the
South Gate of Chengty through which one passes in going out to ? College of
the Methodist EpiscopalM.
An official wearing his official robes and insignia. The breastplate is
beautifully embroidered in silk and gold thread. Note the beads around his
neck. On the table at the left is a tobacco pipe in which the smoke is
drawn through
Bishop Joyce Memorial School of theology - Chengtu West China University,
Methodist Episcopal Mission. Front view facing West, taken from Friends
Plot playground.
Chen Pi Commission of Port and Communication, of Chinese Emperor (now
deposed), Japanese Consul, Commissioner of Customs, Smythe Jones of College
Foochow Gentry, leading Cantonese citizen, etc.
26500 Wuhu. Women's Foreign Missionary Society of Southwest side of hill. Woman washing in pool,
little baby near her. Man washing vegetables. White spots are broken ice,
pond covered with ice in winter. Two grave stones are on the hill to the
right of tree and lowest down are the stones marking graves on property in
dispute. Clothes on house drying. Huts of squatters.
1713 One of the numerous temples belonging to the famous Kushan Monastery.
This is an exceedingly beautiful spot, high up on the mountain side near
the sea at Foochow, China. The water in the foreground is a fish pond in
which are kept many sacred fish.
The cemetary at Foochow in which the victims of the Kuching Massacre of
1895 are buried. The angel monument in the center of the picture is in
their memory while their graves are marked by the low stones in the
foreground. The hill in the background is a Chinese cemetary and the stones
showing are grave markers.
62348 A typical Chinese sampan boat, with is family crew and some
passengers. Note the flooded rice fields at the extreme right of the
picture. The Min river is in the far background.
A part of Kushan (Drum Mountain) Buddhist Monastery near Foochow, China.
There are about five hundred priests connected with this monastery, but
only about two hundred are in attendance at a time.
Foochow, S.S. Rally, Spring, 1914. The "Narrow Door" illustrated. Those
who would enter: One carrying a wine flask; one, a large Chinese corn-a
cash; one, a gambling board (at left end). The boy preacher stands in the
center.
26491 Main Building, Anglo Chinese Colley. Foochow, China.
Hardy Training School at Yung Chun, Fukien Province China. Feb. 1914. In
the back row from left to right: Rev. Lo Kim Lang, Vice-Principal of the
school and in entire charge during absence of principal. Two Chinese
teachers. Mr. Sun Thian Lai, graduate of the school and now a teacher. Mr
Sun Ut Khi. Mr. Lan Sui Kok.
The Chinese Characters written above mean: "On the 10th day of March,
1914, we pledge ourselves (or our lives) to the work of the Christian
Ministry." 98 Students of Peking University. Peking, China.
The Chinese Characters written above mean: "On the 10th day of March,
1914, we pledge ourselves (or our lives) to the work of the Christian
Ministry." 98 Students of Peking University. Peking, China.
Conference, Chengtu. 1908
Viceroy Chao Erh Teng visiting
British Consul on right
Bishop Bradford (In. E.)
Bishop Cassels (C. In. S.)
Rev. J. Taylor (A.B.F.In.U.)
Dr. H.L. Canright (In. E. In.)
Arthur H. Smith (American Board, In. China)
26506 Gamble Memorial Hospital, Chungking. This is chiefly a side view. It
is too shut in to get a front view. see China 7 188.
Kucheng Hospital, China 1,2,3 - Helpers. 4 - Teacher. 5 - First Assistant.
6 - Graduate Assistant. 7 - Mrs. T. H. Coole. 8 - Dr. T. H. Coole. 9 -
Third Year Student.
Some of the dispensary patients at Taianfu Men's Hospital. Taianfu,
Shantung, China.
55441 Patient with osteongelites of the jaw in hospital at Taianfu. The
picture illustrates the brick floor, the plaster walls from which flakes of
plaster are continually falling, and the wooden bed whose cracks contain
numerous vermin. This is the best ward in the hospital.
55442 Efulis of the upper jaw removed. The patient went home well and
happy, able to eat solid food for the first time in four years. Taianfu
Hospital.
Boy in Taianfu Hospital, Suffering from a severe burn of six months
before. He has just had a large skin graft applied, and the limb is
covered with a fly screen.
Hospital Cook at Taianfu, Shantung, China, preparing food. The kitchen
including equipment is perhaps worth $10 gold.