Calvin Wilson Mateer, forty-five years a missionary in Shantung, China; a biography . all the particular parts are now done,so that I can for the most give it into the hands of theChinese to oversee. The early part of November, 1867, the Mateerslived half in the old and half in the new. OnNovember 21 they finally moved. That was Satur-day. In the night there came up a fierce storm ofsnow and wind. When they awoke on Sabbathmorning, the kitchen had been filled with snowthrough a door that was blown open. The wind stillblew so hard that the stove in the kitchen smokedand rendered cooking impossi
Calvin Wilson Mateer, forty-five years a missionary in Shantung, China; a biography . all the particular parts are now done,so that I can for the most give it into the hands of theChinese to oversee. The early part of November, 1867, the Mateerslived half in the old and half in the new. OnNovember 21 they finally moved. That was Satur-day. In the night there came up a fierce storm ofsnow and wind. When they awoke on Sabbathmorning, the kitchen had been filled with snowthrough a door that was blown open. The wind stillblew so hard that the stove in the kitchen smokedand rendered cooking impossible. The stair door hadnot yet been hung, and the snow drifted into the halland almost everywhere in the house. Stoves couldnot be set up, or anything else done toward puttingthings in order, until Thursday, when the stormabated. But they were in their new house. It was only aplain, two-story, brick building, with a roofed verandato both stories and running across the front, a hallin the middle of the house with a room on either side,and a dining room and kitchen at the rear. Much. THE NEW HOME 81 of the walls is now covered by Virginia creeper, wis-taria, and cKmbing rose. It is one of those cozymissionary dwellings which censorious travelers toforeign lands visit, or look at from the outside; andthen, returning to their own land, they tell about themas evidence of the luxury by which these represen-tatives of the Christian churches have surroimdedthemselves. Yet if they cared to know, and wouldexamine, they would out of simple regard for the truth,if for no other reason, testify to the necessity of suchhomes for the health and efficiency of the missionaries,and as powerful indirect helps in the work of socialbetterment among the natives; and they wouldwonder at the self-sacrifice and economy and scantymeans by which these worthy servants of Christhave managed to make for themselves and their suc-cessors such comfortable and tasteful places of abode. The Mateer house stands on
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