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“THREE SCORE YEARS AND TEN” MISSIONARY WORK IN CHINA
Amy Moore
home the name Kuling (the older spelling). But that was all in the future and at the end of 1947 we
were just beginning to get used to our boys moving from Shanghai, where Percy could see them when
he went to Council Meetings, and being 400 miles away up river at Guling.
In Hanzhong we spent Christmas Day with the Church and it was good to celebrate our Saviour’s birth
with our Chinese brothers and sisters. I wonder sometimes whether in our churches at home we really
know the same deep joy in our salvation which these people do who are so aware of the ‘kingdom of
darkness’ from which they have come.
In Shanghai Alan was away for Christmas in Jiangxi Province staying in the home of his German
friend Kingsley Baehr. He wrote happily from there that the home they lived in was by the river and in
the river they saw many logs belonging to local carpenters. They saw men fishing with either nets or
cormorants, as the river was abounding in fish. He explained that the carpenters working there was
because that house and others were badly bombed during the war. A nice note from the Baehrs when
the children went back to school after Christmas said the children seemed to have been happy
together but were looking forward to seeing the new location in Guling. A new experience for Alan
would be a ride in a wheelbarrow for the first part of the trip back to school. We had asked them to
buy something for Alan to be given to him as our Christmas present as there was little we could buy in
Shaanxi. They wrote that they had bought him a magnifying glass on a stand to look at his stamp
collection through. It cost $72,000!! Inflation was as high as ever!
Because of the move to Guling the school was closing on Saturday 22 November 1947 in Shanghai
and reopening again in Guling on 7 January 1948. Raymond had been very much blessed by a
message given one Sunday evening in Shanghai by one of the new Australian lady workers. Her
subject was ‘Under New Management’ and Raymond had not only wanted to commit himself to the
Lord’s management but told Mr. Houghton he would like to be baptized, but as we were planning to
have a month at the school in 1948 before we left for our furlough, he would like to wait till we were
there for his baptism.
The only access to Guling was this walking track which
included the ‘thousand steps (right)
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Amy Moore
home the name Kuling (the older spelling). But that was all in the future and at the end of 1947 we
were just beginning to get used to our boys moving from Shanghai, where Percy could see them when
he went to Council Meetings, and being 400 miles away up river at Guling.
In Hanzhong we spent Christmas Day with the Church and it was good to celebrate our Saviour’s birth
with our Chinese brothers and sisters. I wonder sometimes whether in our churches at home we really
know the same deep joy in our salvation which these people do who are so aware of the ‘kingdom of
darkness’ from which they have come.
In Shanghai Alan was away for Christmas in Jiangxi Province staying in the home of his German
friend Kingsley Baehr. He wrote happily from there that the home they lived in was by the river and in
the river they saw many logs belonging to local carpenters. They saw men fishing with either nets or
cormorants, as the river was abounding in fish. He explained that the carpenters working there was
because that house and others were badly bombed during the war. A nice note from the Baehrs when
the children went back to school after Christmas said the children seemed to have been happy
together but were looking forward to seeing the new location in Guling. A new experience for Alan
would be a ride in a wheelbarrow for the first part of the trip back to school. We had asked them to
buy something for Alan to be given to him as our Christmas present as there was little we could buy in
Shaanxi. They wrote that they had bought him a magnifying glass on a stand to look at his stamp
collection through. It cost $72,000!! Inflation was as high as ever!
Because of the move to Guling the school was closing on Saturday 22 November 1947 in Shanghai
and reopening again in Guling on 7 January 1948. Raymond had been very much blessed by a
message given one Sunday evening in Shanghai by one of the new Australian lady workers. Her
subject was ‘Under New Management’ and Raymond had not only wanted to commit himself to the
Lord’s management but told Mr. Houghton he would like to be baptized, but as we were planning to
have a month at the school in 1948 before we left for our furlough, he would like to wait till we were
there for his baptism.
The only access to Guling was this walking track which
included the ‘thousand steps (right)
324
