Florence Young: Mission Accomplished by Geoff Benge & Janet Benge

Author:Geoff Benge & Janet Benge [Benge, Geoff & Benge, Janet]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biography, History
ISBN: 9781576583135
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Amazon: 1576583139
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Publisher: YWAM Pub.
Published: 2005-01-15T11:38:51+00:00

Florence drew a deep breath and reminded herself once again that panicking was the worst thing to do in an emergency. She thanked the messengers for visiting her, slipped the message back up her tunic sleeve, and returned to the Bible study. By now the meeting had ended, and the crowd had moved on into the chapel for the morning church service. Florence breathed a prayer of thanks that Mr. Wang was scheduled to preach at the service. It would give the missionaries time to decide what they should do next.

Half an hour later Florence was back in the kitchen, this time with Christine and Emma. The women fastened the shutters on the window, lit a lamp, and huddled together. Florence handed the note around for each woman to read. “We will need to speak softly,” she said when they had read it.

Every aspect of the note was discussed, and the three women came to the conclusion that they should await instructions from the mandarin who was in charge of the nearby town of Kuei-k’i. The mandarin supported the thriving China Inland Mission station in Kuei-k’i, and the women knew that he would alert the missionaries straight away if things were as serious as Dr. Judd supposed them to be. In the meantime they agreed that two new European workers who were passing through An-ren should continue on their way south immediately. There was no reason to put anyone in unnecessary jeopardy. It took several days to arrange for them to leave, and on July 27 Florence wrote to her sister Emily:

It was a great relief when they were gone. The responsibility of other people’s lives is very heavy…. Rumors and threats are flying about. We go to bed each night with everything prepared for sudden flight. We have a ladder by the wall, and a few clothes entrusted to a friend of Siu-li; but we are so hemmed in that it is impossible to do anything secretly in China…. I cannot write more now; and perhaps it is as well. “It is better to trust,” and better to praise; and we have been doing both…. Poor China! The people are full of fears and lying reports. If it is so here, so far from the scene of real conflict, how terrible it must be in North China.

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