A.B. Simpson by A.E. Thompson

Author:A.E. Thompson [Thompson, A. E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-60066-989-7
Publisher: Moody Publishers
Published: 1960-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

is a couplet from one of several beautiful hymns and poems which he composed during that visit. He was kindly received by the missionaries of other societies in Jerusalem and assisted in the opening services of the Mildmay Mission Hospital at Hebron, then under the charge of Mrs. Bowie, of England. The Alliance had no mission in Palestine at that time, but Miss Lucy Dunn and Miss E. J. Robertson had been in Jerusalem for three years supported by friends of the Alliance. On Mr. Simpson’s return to New York the Board decided to take up work in the land of our Lord.

The latter part of February and all of March were spent in India, visiting and encouraging the Alliance missions in the province of Berar, under the leadership of Rev. and Mrs. M. B. Fuller, and in a rapid survey of the work of other societies in the great cities of India.

As Rangoon and Singapore were ports of call, Dr. Simpson was permitted to touch the mission work in Burma and the Malay Peninsula. In Hong Kong, then the great missionary center for South China; Canton, the southern mercantile capital, and Macao, where Robert Morrison landed as the first missionary to China, he made a careful study of the South China field where a little company of Alliance missionaries were preparing for the great pioneer work which was to follow. Similar studies in Central China, where the Alliance had established a mission, and in the north, where Miss Duow and others were located in Peking, occupied the remainder of his two months’ visit to this great empire. He had not time to enter Manchuria where the Swedish Alliance Mission had been started in the previous year.

Dr. Simpson’s three weeks’ journey through Japan was arranged by Dr. and Mrs. T. Gulick of Kyoto, the ancient capital, who afterward took the oversight of the Alliance work then in its inception in this island empire. On July 7 he left Yokohama and, after a call in the mid-Pacific at Honolulu, reached San Francisco and crossed the continent, arriving home just in time for the Old Orchard Convention.

In all the countries visited Dr. Simpson was warmly welcomed by other missions. He addressed numerous regular gatherings as well as specially arranged meetings and conferences, and gave in spiritual blessing quite as much as he gained in knowledge of the mission field.

A full account of this deputational tour was published in Larger Outlooks on Missionary Lands, a volume which is replete with information about the lands which had been visited.

One paragraph, written in Japan, touches his family history. “From across the great seas came also the message that our own dear mother had just gone to join our revered and honored father in the home above. We thanked our Heavenly Father for her fourscore years and the sweet memory of her life and love, and for our dear and venerable father, who, at eighty-four, had just a little while ago passed on before. How much

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