Under marching orders : a story of Mary Porter Gamewell . in wisdom. Hundreds ofyears ago, the lion, with a companion lion,guarded the entrance of a palace in theancient town long since vanished. In the little chapel at Shang-chia-chai, thenext stopping place, the Chinese Christiansgathered for evening prayer and the singingof hjTuns. They had heard of the clear,soprano voice which led the singing in thecompound at Peking, and Miss Porters com-ing was hailed with joy. With childlike sat-isfaction they sang the old hymns of theChurch, begging Miss Porter to correct theirmistakes, as they had le
Under marching orders : a story of Mary Porter Gamewell . in wisdom. Hundreds ofyears ago, the lion, with a companion lion,guarded the entrance of a palace in theancient town long since vanished. In the little chapel at Shang-chia-chai, thenext stopping place, the Chinese Christiansgathered for evening prayer and the singingof hjTuns. They had heard of the clear,soprano voice which led the singing in thecompound at Peking, and Miss Porters com-ing was hailed with joy. With childlike sat-isfaction they sang the old hymns of theChurch, begging Miss Porter to correct theirmistakes, as they had learned most of thesongs from Chinese teachers. Frequentlythey stopped singing to tell her how eagerlythey had hoped for good singers to come andteach them. The old tune of Greenville wastheir i^articular favorite, and they sang it In a Peking Cart 57 again and again with whole-hearted enthusi-asm. Miss Porter listened appreciatively totheir original variation in one of the meas-ures, which was sung with keenest music is written in this way:. t_> They sang it thus
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