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Title: Life and light for woman
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Woman's Board of Missions
Subjects: Congregational churches
Publisher: (Boston : Woman's Boards of Missions
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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ind you. Dont fear afterwards. The gaily dressed and smiling gentleman in the center does not suggesta humble sufterer for Christs sake, but Mr. Mings wife makes his homemost unhappy. She and his brothers widow unite in cursing him withcurses deep and long, uttered often in the open court, that all the neigh-bors may hear. And why? Because he no longer worships at the house-hold shrines, of which in this comlortable house there are a number. Notcontent with this they go a step further, and revile the Christian religionand all its followers. He dare not take a friend home, for fear the stormmay burst about his ears. The affection and sj-mpathy he ought to find athome he gets in the group of Christians, where you see him seated ; butno persecution, he says, shall alter his determination to follow Christ. Now you should look upon another group,* and find tlie tall figure stand-ing in the middle with hands clasped. This woman, Mrs. Chang, went * See pr.ge 97. 104 LIFE AND LIGHT. S^AIarch^
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i8gg.\ A WORD with would-be givers. 105 to the cheerless place brother Ming calls home, hoping to make friendswith the women and persuade them to better things, but a very cold wel-come she got! So it often is. She has in her possession the good news,but those who need to hear it most often turn away, so she needs grace,and tact, and courage. It is easy to speak of Christ in a revival meeting,and we have such in China. It is easy to show His spirit when all aboutus are loving and sympathetic ; but to meet patiently the sneer and innu-endo, to soften the hard heart, and inspire confidence, this is a task thatneeds an angels gifts. Yet this won)an, now so efficient in the Lordsservice, was an unbeliever herself ten years ago, and spent her time atthe gaming tables of her select friends. The Manchu women—she is one—are tempted in this way on account of their assured income, which, ifsmall, is regular ; and much goes for wine and gambling debts, if not, asoften, for opium. Next her, t

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