Peeps into China . CHAPTEE XVIII FROM TREATY-PORT TO PROVINCIAL YOUNG missionary, having for three yearslived in the comfortable and healthy portof Chefoo, — the sanatorium of China,—was transferred, in the autumn of 1885,to the capital of the province of Shantung, the cityof Chi-nan-fu—called by Mrs. Williamson the Parisof China/ Would that the transfer in actuality hadequalled the ease of the transfer made by that learnedand august body, the Presbyterian Mission! Butvotes are always an illusion, if difficulty of fulfilmentis to be measured by the difficulty in casting a vote—especi
Peeps into China . CHAPTEE XVIII FROM TREATY-PORT TO PROVINCIAL YOUNG missionary, having for three yearslived in the comfortable and healthy portof Chefoo, — the sanatorium of China,—was transferred, in the autumn of 1885,to the capital of the province of Shantung, the cityof Chi-nan-fu—called by Mrs. Williamson the Parisof China/ Would that the transfer in actuality hadequalled the ease of the transfer made by that learnedand august body, the Presbyterian Mission! Butvotes are always an illusion, if difficulty of fulfilmentis to be measured by the difficulty in casting a vote—especially about some one else. One unacquainted with the question of moving inChina, and supposing that the shortest road is alwaysthe best and cheapest, would quickly decide that theway to reach Chi-nan-fu from Chefoo would be by thedirect overland route, with carts or wheelbarrows ormule-back—a distance of some three hundred and fiftymiles. The decision would be correct if merely travel-ling as a tourist, but not so if moving as an AmericanPresbyterian missionar
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