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“THREE SCORE YEARS AND TEN” MISSIONARY WORK IN CHINA
Amy Moore
thankfully booked ourselves in and enjoyed having a closer opportunity to explore some of the nooks
and crannies of this historic old building.
Percy and I found ourselves secretly amused at a
Charlie and performance which Charlie and Ruth put on every
Ruth night, and which we could not help overhearing.
Frencham At the end of each day, they totted up what they
were had spent during the day and carefully worked out
married how much of each other’s money had been spent
two days and how much each owed the other. It tickled us
after Percy immensely because we had long ago pooled our
and Amy resources and ceased to regard what we had as
and ‘yours’ and ‘mine’. It was ‘ours’ now and this
travelled careful accounting to each other was rather a joke
back to to us.
Shaanxi
with them. One afternoon we reached our last mountain
before descending to the plain. It was very steep
and we could not ride up it so we walked. It was
about 10,000 feet high, and the mule track up to the top wound round and round and round until we
began to think we would never reach the top. It took us hours as it was so steep that we had to go
slowly, but the views we had were just wonderful. Finally when we did reach the top, we caught a
glimpse of the Hanzhong plain in the distance. The river we had been following all the way through
(Left) Dr. Xiao,
the Frenchams
and the Moores
ready to set off
again after
resting at a
mountain inn
(Below) Snow on
the Qin Ling
mountains made
the going
difficult.
(Below left) Dr.
Xiao’s sons
came to meet
him and escort
him home.
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Amy Moore
thankfully booked ourselves in and enjoyed having a closer opportunity to explore some of the nooks
and crannies of this historic old building.
Percy and I found ourselves secretly amused at a
Charlie and performance which Charlie and Ruth put on every
Ruth night, and which we could not help overhearing.
Frencham At the end of each day, they totted up what they
were had spent during the day and carefully worked out
married how much of each other’s money had been spent
two days and how much each owed the other. It tickled us
after Percy immensely because we had long ago pooled our
and Amy resources and ceased to regard what we had as
and ‘yours’ and ‘mine’. It was ‘ours’ now and this
travelled careful accounting to each other was rather a joke
back to to us.
Shaanxi
with them. One afternoon we reached our last mountain
before descending to the plain. It was very steep
and we could not ride up it so we walked. It was
about 10,000 feet high, and the mule track up to the top wound round and round and round until we
began to think we would never reach the top. It took us hours as it was so steep that we had to go
slowly, but the views we had were just wonderful. Finally when we did reach the top, we caught a
glimpse of the Hanzhong plain in the distance. The river we had been following all the way through
(Left) Dr. Xiao,
the Frenchams
and the Moores
ready to set off
again after
resting at a
mountain inn
(Below) Snow on
the Qin Ling
mountains made
the going
difficult.
(Below left) Dr.
Xiao’s sons
came to meet
him and escort
him home.
181
