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“THREE SCORE YEARS AND TEN” MISSIONARY WORK IN CHINA
Amy Moore
a stronger foundation than ever before." Out of that period came names of great Chinese leaders
such as Pastor David Yang, Wang Mingdao and the Chinese Christian General Feng.
To Mr. Hudson Taylor, convalescing from an illness in Switzerland that summer of 1900, there were
months of agony as telegram after telegram arrived telling of yet others who had laid down their lives.
The missionaries belonging to the Mission God had used him to found, were as precious to him as his
own children, and he longed to be with them to share their sufferings.
After it was all over there came demands by foreign businesses and some Missions (mainly Roman
Catholic) for compensation for the lives and the property which had been lost. Under the guidance of
God, the CIM refused to accept compensation and used their own funds to rebuild where it was
necessary, hoping that by a spirit of forgiveness and unwillingness to take revenge they could
manifest the love of God for sinful man to the people of China.
In Yangzhou George and Jessie were not able to settle long again into their work before they were
packing up to leave for furlough. At the beginning of 1901 with their five children, they sailed for
London, arriving on 10 February.
(Left) George and Jessie in China
(Above) George and Jessie in China with Arthur and Esther Moore
NORTH WEST PROMOTION
By mid 1902 George and Jessie were back in China having left Esther, nearly 18, George junior, now
15 and Arthur 11 in England. Mr. Hoste had a new appointment for George. He wanted him and
Jessie to go up to the north western province of Gansu to fill in temporarily in charge of the work there.
Part of their job would be to visit all the lonely and distant stations in that province to encourage and
help fellow missionaries wherever they could. To encourage and build up the Chinese Church was
also part of their ministry and one which George was well qualified to do. Gansu separated Mongolia
from Tibet. Remote and mountainous, it had a population of 10 million, half of them Moslems.
They were based at Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu, a city surrounded by hills that rise tier by tier to the
great Himalayan Mountains beyond. The Yellow River rises in those mountains and Lanzhou is
situated on its banks at the western end of a fertile plain 5,000 feet above sea level.
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Amy Moore
a stronger foundation than ever before." Out of that period came names of great Chinese leaders
such as Pastor David Yang, Wang Mingdao and the Chinese Christian General Feng.
To Mr. Hudson Taylor, convalescing from an illness in Switzerland that summer of 1900, there were
months of agony as telegram after telegram arrived telling of yet others who had laid down their lives.
The missionaries belonging to the Mission God had used him to found, were as precious to him as his
own children, and he longed to be with them to share their sufferings.
After it was all over there came demands by foreign businesses and some Missions (mainly Roman
Catholic) for compensation for the lives and the property which had been lost. Under the guidance of
God, the CIM refused to accept compensation and used their own funds to rebuild where it was
necessary, hoping that by a spirit of forgiveness and unwillingness to take revenge they could
manifest the love of God for sinful man to the people of China.
In Yangzhou George and Jessie were not able to settle long again into their work before they were
packing up to leave for furlough. At the beginning of 1901 with their five children, they sailed for
London, arriving on 10 February.
(Left) George and Jessie in China
(Above) George and Jessie in China with Arthur and Esther Moore
NORTH WEST PROMOTION
By mid 1902 George and Jessie were back in China having left Esther, nearly 18, George junior, now
15 and Arthur 11 in England. Mr. Hoste had a new appointment for George. He wanted him and
Jessie to go up to the north western province of Gansu to fill in temporarily in charge of the work there.
Part of their job would be to visit all the lonely and distant stations in that province to encourage and
help fellow missionaries wherever they could. To encourage and build up the Chinese Church was
also part of their ministry and one which George was well qualified to do. Gansu separated Mongolia
from Tibet. Remote and mountainous, it had a population of 10 million, half of them Moslems.
They were based at Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu, a city surrounded by hills that rise tier by tier to the
great Himalayan Mountains beyond. The Yellow River rises in those mountains and Lanzhou is
situated on its banks at the western end of a fertile plain 5,000 feet above sea level.
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