Edward Judson, interpreter of God . A divided and scattered familypresents the saddest and most perplexing problem of missionaiylife. The following graphic pen-pictures of Edwards child-hood surroundings are from a letter by Mrs. Emily to a Utica friend. She refers to the house wherethey lived as a barnlike-looking structure, a mere boardshanty as compared with the Utica houses. Describingthe discomforts, she says: I should tell you that Edward cried in the night last night, ashe is not well. I sprang up to go to him. As I put my footupon the floor it was black with ants, no uncommon
Edward Judson, interpreter of God . A divided and scattered familypresents the saddest and most perplexing problem of missionaiylife. The following graphic pen-pictures of Edwards child-hood surroundings are from a letter by Mrs. Emily to a Utica friend. She refers to the house wherethey lived as a barnlike-looking structure, a mere boardshanty as compared with the Utica houses. Describingthe discomforts, she says: I should tell you that Edward cried in the night last night, ashe is not well. I sprang up to go to him. As I put my footupon the floor it was black with ants, no uncommon thing. Weare obliged to have our bedstead stand constantly in water. Ido not know whether or not I should tell you how the frogshop from my sleeves when I put them on and how the lizardsdrop from the ceiling to the table when we are eating. . Youwould not need to be told that Moulmein is a beautiful place,if you could see it. To my eye there is nothing in a land offrosts to compare with it. . The scenery around us is perfectly. EARLY LIFE 15 charming, the hills are bristling with white and gilded you turn back upon the hills a scene unrivaled in picturesquebeauty opens upon your view, and you involuntarily draw upin the middle of the street and stand erect in your and there little houses like last years haystacks are stuckdown in groves of various kinds of trees, the palms, cocoa,orange, lime, and jack. Moulmein was a cosmopolitan city—a prophecy per-haps of the environment in which, in New York City,Edward Judson was to do his work. A portly, kinglike Mogul rolls by in his lumbering gazzee;a Jew, in his own peculiar costume, is wending his way to hismerchandise, looking, poor fellow! little like a child of Abraham;the Chinaman toddles along in his high-toed shoes and silkentrousers; the Indian from the other coast covers himself entirelywith his white flowing drapery, making a very ghostlike appear-ance as he squats on the hillside, or glides along t
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