Under marching orders - a story of Mary Porter Gamewell (1909) (14779212291)

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Title: Under marching orders : a story of Mary Porter Gamewell
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Hubbard, Ethel Daniels
Subjects: Gamewell, Mary Porter, 1848-1906 Missions
Publisher: New York : Young People's Missionary Movement of the United States and Canada
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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s before. In the country, in childhood,havent you often climbed the near-by hilleager to see what is just beyond? Andhavent you found that there is always an-other ^^just beyond! You would fain presson and on until you come to the very end ofthe earth, to that mysterious ^ ^ jumping-offplace which, like the North Pole, is neverfound and perpetually sought. So it waswith the girl. There was a voice in her earswhich said, ^^Come, and there was some-thing deep down in her soul which said,*Go. The soul of man must be made formovement, for exploration, because it is sureto answer that summons to climb yet anotherhill and get the broader view. Thus the girlwas lured out from the home town and outfrom the homeland across the sea to China.All told, it had been a wonderful journey.The girls bright eyes and quick sense of funhad helped her to see and enjoy, as well asto make the best of trying situations. Shewas alive with interest when the ship an- ■ 1 A li is about three eighths of a niile.
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^^SfJpS^l^ Mary Porters Journey from San Francisco to Peking 7 8 Under Marching Orders chored in Yokohama Bay. She had read thepapers and kept pace with the times, and sheknew that little Japan was making history-fast. When they sailed through the lovelyInland Sea, she realized that Japan hadbeauty of nature on her side to help her menand women become true and strong and loyalto the empire. Eleven days later she landedin China, after the six solid weeks on ship-board. Even in those days Shanghai, theport, was a bustling city threatening to be-come a rival on the other side of the world toNew York. The girl, however, could not andcared not to linger in Shanghai, for she wasbound for the capital city of the empire—mighty, mysterious Peking. With character-istic eagerness she longed to be off and awayon the journey north. In 1871 America did not know as muchabout China as she knows to-day, and therehad been no one in the home country to tellthe girl traveler that the last vessel sailed

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