They Shall See His Face by Linda Banks

Author:Linda Banks
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Acorn Press
Published: 2017-01-10T05:00:00+00:00

July 24–26

Daylesford

July 27

Men’s Meeting, St Thomas’ Essendon

July 28

Ladies’ Meeting, St Mary’s Caulfield 7pm Nurses’ Meeting, St Hilda’s Missionary Training House

July 29

Annual Meeting Gleaners’ Union, 8pm Christ Church, St Kilda

Returning to Sydney, Amy gave her only reported talk on the Blind School in the form of a lantern lecture at Samuel Marsden’s old church, St John’s Parramatta. Dressed in Chinese costume, she mentioned that on her return to China, Miss Alice Kendall, relative of Australian poet Henry Kendall, would be assisting her in the work of the Blind School.6

For the Wilkinsons, the extended period on furlough provided an opportunity to gain perspective on their work and consider plans for the future. It also gave them the promise of a second child, though he would not arrive until they had returned to Foochow.

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In the meantime, movements for large-scale reform in China were gaining momentum: 7

in politics, the dominant figure was Sun Yat Sen, a trained doctor and baptised Christian who had committed himself to turning China into a modern republic. Before the Boxer Uprising he had formulated his ‘Three People’s Principles’ – nationalism (freedom from imperialist dominance), democracy (along Western lines) and quality of life (involving land redistribution). During 1907–1908, Sun helped fund and sponsor six different military uprisings in the south of the country. Though these failed, city authorities in Foochow, several of whom were now Christians, were sympathetic to his cause.8

in education, an end was made to the elite Confucian examination system and new government schools were established throughout the country, including in Fukien Province. However, these were still primarily for boys and were modest in number, and the curriculum focused on Chinese classics. They did not touch the average city or poorer rural children the missionaries were reaching.

in health, anti-opium societies were being formed to confiscate the drug and treat addicts. This took pace in Foochow and some of its nearby districts. Strongly supported by missionaries, these societies organised parades and demonstrations of up to 10,000 people, public burnings of the drug and the closure of over 3,000 dens in the capital alone. Many farmers also stopped growing the plant. To the missionaries’ embarrassment, however, the British government refused Peking’s demands to close down the opium trade, insisting that over the next decade it be reduced by only 10 per cent per year.

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