. Character-building in China : the life-story of Julia Brown Mateer . the privilegeof meeting them, has been an unspent force allthrough my life, and has passed on to otherminds, Chinese as well as foreigners. It is suchpeople as Mrs. Mateer who are the children ofGod, moving to and fro among the children ofmen. They are in the world but not of it. Theybring blessings from heaven to human sufferers onearth. They are the messengers,—veritably theangels of God,—dispensing His grace and loveto those who labor and are heavy laden. Another writes : After my husbands death, Iwas transferred to Teng
. Character-building in China : the life-story of Julia Brown Mateer . the privilegeof meeting them, has been an unspent force allthrough my life, and has passed on to otherminds, Chinese as well as foreigners. It is suchpeople as Mrs. Mateer who are the children ofGod, moving to and fro among the children ofmen. They are in the world but not of it. Theybring blessings from heaven to human sufferers onearth. They are the messengers,—veritably theangels of God,—dispensing His grace and loveto those who labor and are heavy laden. Another writes : After my husbands death, Iwas transferred to Tengchow and was taken,with my four children, into Mr. Mateers baby boy—five months old—was a greatcuriosity to the Chinese, as for a long time therehad been no baby in the mission. The reportspread far and wide that there was a foreignbaby in the house and for many days crowds ofvisitors came to see him. How I admired then. She always made them welcome,never thinking of being inconvenienced andnever letting them go without telling them, in. SIDE-LIGHTS i45 her cheery way, about the love of Jesus. Shenever spared herself. She was lovely to mychildren and they speak of her always withtender affection. We were in her home fourmonths until the Tientsin massacre drove allmissionaries out of Tengchow. Many new recruits for Tengchow and for thenewer stations of the interior stayed with theMateers, so that most of the time some one wasliving with them. Housekeeping was not one ofher favorite employments but she did this enter-taining as part of her missionary duty. Therewas involved in this the spending of much timeand thought in interpreting of the language, inadvising concerning new furniture, marketing,help and the innumerable things about whichyoung missionaries wanted and needed of these says : We lived with Dr. andMrs. Mateer the first winter, and through it allthey were uniformly kind and courteous to usand most interested in all that concern
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