Peeps Into China; Or, The Missionary's Children

ou can't mea

er told me her very own se

, the girl three years older, were carrying on thi

," repeated Leonard, as though he could not b

l Graham replied a little proudly, for when she had run quickly to bring such important news t

their own country, and the splendid kites they fly, and all the wonderful

growing, as it does grow there, you know, and I suppose we shall be carried about in s

her!" the boy then exclaimed, "how beautiful! Syb

hinking about going to China for some time, but we would not tell you anything about it until matters were

ugust, then," they

"I like my father to be a missionary very m

good deal to leave this dear little country parish of ours, and the duties he has so loved to perform

CH

answered Sybil. "I wonder whether I shall

l," was her mother's loving answer, "that yo

all joy for them, especially for Sybil, with her very affectionate nature and dread of saying "Good-byes," for she and Leonard were only to be

his wife, the children

discovered-what so many other later brother missionaries have found out also-that to obtain even a hearing on the subject of religion from a Chinaman, who has been trained

urned at once to England, but with a changed mind, determined now to seek holy orders and enter the ministry, instead of following his profession, so as by thus doing to add one more to the number of earnest clergy that his short stay in C

and for missionary work, but until now he had bee

lived at too great a distance to send for the doctor for a slight ailment, had been very thankful, when the clergyman came i

he science of medicine was held in veneration by the inhabitants, and gained a ready admission

uld also be of service to him when he arrived in China; for although the dialects of the south, where he was going, were ver

and why he has been studying the language without an alphabet," Leonard said, when he and his sister were a

much we wanted to do so," answered Sybil. "But isn't it splendid?-all but one thing, and that

nd I thought you were so fond of writing letters. Why, you could write splendid ones from China, and tell Lil

f writing letters, and her friend, she knew,

ry busy man, had to regulate all his time; but this one hour a day belonged entirely to hi

bow window, gazing out of it, with a very serious look on his face, she said with sur

er on to

ve to be taken. I shall be very sorry, too, to say 'Good-bye' here, where our lives have been so blessed

he continued, "as if that were

f grave responsibility; but now I think it is my turn to ask what your thoughts are," he went on,

that I learnt last term at school, which I think mu

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"I am sure you will make a capital li

g, father?" she then asked; "to th

n the north, and now I am to be in Hong-Kong, an island in the south; but we shall no

them to me." And as she spoke she ran off, to return the next minute with an atlas, in which she found these pl

ther and sister, having till now been very busy, first coaxing his good friend the gardener to help him cut and put up some roost

IN THE

en we shall have, I suppose, seven or eight weeks with very little to do, and

hat virtue which we call "patience." He wanted his mother now to go into the poultry-yard with him to see the ro

six months' long holiday in China, to return to England to continue their education. It was a terrible blow to her

said; "and leave

ish you to remain at the school where you are, but when school-days are over, about four years he

to go to China now, fa

it must be a dreadful trial for so very good and loving a mother as yours to part from her children; but now that a call has come to me to do my Master's work in a foreign land, and she is helping

y wiped her tears away, and tried to look cheerful. Her father had gone wisely to work in giving her such a reason for trying to o

year, she said to herself, and meanwhile they were

roosts, which she at once obeyed, affectionately kissing her mother a

as she told it, even he could not tell that it made her