12
Personalities of Old Hongkong
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
Charles
The Rev.
Gutzlaff
the ++++
Far East and official frethe service of the Hongkong Gov- ernment was the Rev. Charles Gutzlaff. Ho was in many res- pocis a most remarkable per- Bonality and through his know- ledge of the Chinese language proved to be of inestimable value to the founders of this Colony.
The Rev. Charles Gutzlaff was born in Pomerania, a province of
BY
T. PAUL GREGORY
come.
CON*
the Orient. The German Church tion of the Chinese who thronged zloft's play readily went into
the
preacrament oficy
બા
to
with
returned to inc
seemed to preclude the possibility that any of them would attempt to take advantage of his kindliness. It was really a very long time before ire found out that he was being "taken for a ride," and strangely enough, the discovery of the fact, was nut due to any sudden dawning of the true state of affairs upon him- self. It was brought about through his efforts to induce foreigners from abroad to join his evangelistic union, down in the port TEEZIELLE† and not settle
cities, but
Chinese costume, adopt and be prepared to live and die, it Prussin, in the year 1803. He was undoubtedly one of the sincerest need be, in the interior of the was educated for the Lutheran men of his day, but was unfortunate-
Those missionaries who did ministry, but at the age of 21, de ly singularly lacking in a knowledge try away from all foreign influence.
ons have been
must cided to become a miminary to of Chinese human nature; for strange andre
fell as it may seem, the greater propor- siderable number.
in with to his th
the warmest with which he was connected was
office to listen to
sms enthusiasm. They proceeded to take advan- the then unknown hinterland, wher apparently not interested in carry- ing on missionary activities in a tage of his credulity. They pro they were robbed
and persecuted and driven from
to place region so far distant from the ed such an interest in the doctrines Fatherland, and declined to avail of Christianity that Gutzlaff's hears Many of them
broken down in health, and kong. itself of his services, to young Cutz was touched, and he proceeded Taft proceeded to Holland. Here he relect from among the most atten- dying here, were buried in the Pro- was favourably received, and was tive, a large number to act as testant Cemetery at Happy Valley. Hurdships and the fact that ultimately sent out to Java as the evangelists. These be supplied with Their representative of the Netherlands bags full of New Testaments and they were not as blind to the faults in human character as was Gutzinic Missionary Society. After few tracts, and provided them besides in human
thele eyes the years of mkalonary labour in the with funds for personal expenses readily exposed to Dutch prosession, he was transferred and a salary of six dollars a month hollow mockery of the fraud that the horde of leeches attached to the Eventually be had some 366 of "Chinese Unlon" were perpetrating these paid preachers in its employ upon poor, over-trusting Gutzlaff.
as soon
oon as these Europeans and is expenditure for wages alone in fact, as EXPERT LINGUIST
amounted to over $2,000 monthly, had nequired but a smattering of the There individunts, whom ar was language, they realised how badly Gutzlaff, who was gifted with pleased to refer
as his "Chinese he
was being taken in," special faculty for acquiring forest Balon."
and went with the thoroughly aroured. told him of the fanguages, diligently applied himself not re
circumstances. Gutzlaff, how- utmost regularity, starting from to the mastery of the Fuklen dialect, omes with pouches fuit of Bilbles, ever, was so implicit and childlike and after a year or so of consistent travelling money and direcilons for in
the Chinese effort, id made exceptional pro-
pro- the route: and returning at the pro- "evangelists" were all honest men, Unlike most
Fauropeans who
time with well-written journals refused to
they were Jefused to believe atisfed when they of travels they hud are apparently
made, simply an army of mercenary crooks have succeeded in learning has to sketches of sermons they had never and hypocrites. Of course, after a speak a Chinese dialect, and then preached, and lists of converts they while, the fraud became so patently proceed to rest upon their ours for had never baptizas." the remainder of their stay in the Far East, Gutzlaff went aliend and proceeded t
ኔን
to
to Slam, where he commenced work each,
non: the Hoklo emigrunts from Fukien.
Kress
written master the
language as well. So proficient did
a respect which, considering the gen eral attitude at that period of the Chinese to foreigners, must have heen exceedingly gratifying.
Carte
#ever
A SWINDLE
In fact, it was a
his
his faith
that
that
the
And
obvinus that he was obliged to nd- mit that he had been swindled. The noble vision of success being thus so rudely dissipated, poor Gutzlaff well-conducted lost all interest in life, and his work he become in his ability to read and swindle; for the money that was in the Government service became a write Chintse that he was regarded pad them went into their own pe- burden to him. His failure preyed by them as a sort of prodigy, and keta, and as for the Bibles and they commenced to accord him with tracts, these were sold back to the his mind, and his health being none too strong, he suffered a com- printer, and the latter in turn resold
mental and physical break- cold plete theni to
Gutzlaff, how down. He lingered in this miserable Gutzlaff ever, was too charitable and perhaps condition for a month or 50, kl to "soft" a person to realise how then passed away on August 3, shabbily he was being treated. He 1851, at the comparatively early age The sadden death of his wife and apparently thought that all men had of 48. Posterity remembers him not only child through a tropient in the saune high ideals os himself, and only as an excellent clvil servant, deprived him of desire to remain in as for the Chinese, the very fact that but also as bac of the greatest Siam as an itinerant missionary he understood the language so well, visionaries of his day. among Chinese coolies, and he beg- ged his Society to permit him to commence Jabours in a more con- Rental field-China. The Nether- Lands Mirionary Society, however, were unwilling to send Jun. but Gutzlaff, having inherited a mall legacy, decided that he would go
at his own expense.
He ac
they set out for Fukien in
TRAVELLERS' TALES
COMMERCIALS are a notoriously sticking on a playing-cord, the king light-hearted lot, and the tales of diamonds. But, when he returned Chinese junk manned by a Hoklo which are exchanged in the com- an hour later, his case was missing, crew, and upon bia arrival at Amoy
an amused porter explained, was cruelly disappointed by theecial room are usually well worth and
"My mate says, sir, that a man came
uncompromising attitude of the man-
recounting.
It was Friday, and a certain tra- along, took an ace of diamonds out darins, who, declaring him a danger veller for dental appliances was just of his pocket, put it on top of your aus "barbarian" refused to allow him permission to land, curtly in-bout to book an order. He com- king-and went off with your case. forming him that if he did 0, hemenced a hasty search through his
would be arrested forthwith and liable to be beheaded..
pockets.
But it is usually in the custoiner's room that the traveller meets with "What have you lox!" asked his real discouragement.
client. Jent.
"I'd like to show you my samples," "My pencil." returned the travel- a traveller began, fer. "It should be in my pocket. I know I had it on Monday."
"I'm not interested," said the pro- spective customer snappily.
After a second and a third refusal, This is typical of the commercial's
traveller tale which is often oud-humouredly the
asked desperately, "Would you mind if directed against himself.
I looked at As was
the case with the two them myself? haven't had
in the station chance of seeing them for a fort- travellers who met waiting-room on a very wet and night." windy day. They were just about as uncomfortable as could be. There
a
CHINA COAST WORK The skipper of the junk, however, I seeing that there was no chance of his passenger disembarking, carried him to an opium tracer lying off the port. Here he was cordaily wel- comed by the captain, and finding that he was thoroughly conversant with Chinese, he offers him the post of interpreter.. Gutzint
Another wholly improbable cepted, and for several years, sailed was no fire in the room, and water concerns the commercial who came up and down the China coast. In was running off their overcoats and me to his wife in a state of panic The ineantime, he commenced work hats.
"What a day!" commented the
on the translation of Use Bible into first, And then he added the inevi- Chinese, and prepared at his own expense a series of tracts which leable, traveller's query. "What's your
line. opportunity.
istributed at every
It must be understood that he never What's yours?" approved of the opium true, and
when war with China broke out in 1839, he joined the English
one night.
•
tule
pened," she urged.
"Do let me know what has hop-
And at length he got it out. "I've had most desperate luck to- And to-night the climax came. The hoss called me into
"Fireplaces," sald the other. day. "Fire extinguishers!" grinned the and Hove me the business" omce
first. expedi-
tion as official interpreter, for he
In different vein was the tale of the commercial whose wife had re-
Was
was one of the very few Europeans A country railway station supplies peatedly urged him to ask for an in China, "who combined with an ex-the background for another travel- advance
in solary. And this cellent knowledge of the Chinese ler's tale. A commercial who was how he broke the news to his chief. wrliten language, a thorough practi- leaving his case
of samples at the "May I use your telephone, sir? eal Requaintance with several diation was advised to unix lects."
"Throughout the campaign, hebut, as a search of his pockets pro- she forgot to say how much."
label. My wife told me to ask a rise, but served as third interpreter with the Juced no label, he compromised by British forces in the field, and upon
signing of the Treaty of Nanking
in 1842, he was appointed Super-
intendent of the Inland
of
Chusan
near Ningpo Usen occupied by British. Such a valuable man was not to be lost sight of by the Home Government, and therefore in August 1043, he
rewarded with the altuation of Chinese Secretary and Adviser in Chinese Affairs to the Government at Hongkong.
MISSIONARY WORK
in
As soon as he had settled down in the Colony, he commenced addition to his usual offlctal tusks, an arduous round of missionary labours.. According to contemporary accounts, it was his habit to hold meetings every morning from 7 to 8, at which ho spoke In the Fukien dialect 10 a audience of Chinese. Then after a hasly breakfast in his office, he Would
expound the periptures in Cantonese from 8.30 to 9.30 for the beneill of the local Chinese popula- tion. Ile, moreover, made it his practice to continue his missionary labours after office hours, by either going out to outlying settlementa or villages to prench, or else working at home on his translation of the Old Testament.
The great ideal of Gulzlaff'a life
10 was
accomplisht the speedy ovangelization of China, and to this end, bo devoted his pronching. He
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THURSDAY,
NOVEMBER 3, 1998.
THE TOYA WIFE
GERTRUDE GELBIN
RESUME
Shipted from the
Gilberto Brigard, called Frou- frou because of her irresponsible gulcty, writes Georgez Bartoris, Aerivs young Jawyer, Loulae, er sister, Fun TOVEL Georges since childhood. After five years hesa uf marriage, Georgen Zoute to live with them Do shima and enure Froufrou's caprices are ruining his career and the upbringing of their child, Proufron aoon realizes that hur slater has usurped her place in the affections and osteom uf Her husband and tittila son. An- dre Valloire, New Orleans bladė who has always loved Froufrou, rrtarar tu Loutalana from France. Froufrou attempts to Dia. recapture Gearges love. couraged, she runs away with Andre. In New York she de- velops a wracking cough. A your Inter, lack of money forces them back to New Orleans, Georges challenges Andre to a duel and Andrea wounded.
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In the wenka
that followed Andre's death, Froufrou kept to her bod. It was good to lie there in In the dark quiet. Why she was vialled daily by two nuns and a doctor, how plek secured the money on which they lived were questions that sometimes filtered through the dull void that anveloped her only to be lost in the jumbled detalle of thore terrible days, following the duel.
And then, one day, she opened her eyes and know where she was and why. She was in the obscure rooming house to which she and Fick had fled. She had been very
"Louise!" cried Georges "did it take a miracle to bring you back?"
| paused a moment to steady herself
on a new.
A lender woman in mourning entered the church and advancou
to the altar. As who approached the shrias her eyes fell on the necklaon of garnets placed there, Bho looked up eagerly. Those garsels! They wern Froufrou's! She turned quick- ly and peered about, her eyes tali- Ing at fast on Froufrou and Pick In the shadows.
"Froufrou!" she cried. "ON —— darling
Froufrou half rose from her mat and wooing her lurched forward with a zob. “Louise,” she, wapt. "Darling Loulat. Sainte Catherine has answered my prayer,”
That evening Louise called on Georges Sartoris.
"A miracle lins happened," she I cried as he greeted hor.
"Louise!" "he exclaimed, seizing her hand in both of his, and trying to control the emotion in his voice, "Did It take a milracle to bring you back to us7"
"Yea
she nnawared nolemnly, "Gearges over since the duel I've been searching searching for Froufrou. Today I found her. Our Froufrou — so if1
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later's
"No one mentions your so in this house Louise," he in- terrupted coldly.
"Ilut she's been desperately 1. And she wants to nes you."
"That means nothing to me," he eald stonily.
Bbe stared at him unbelievingly. Then you can't be the Georges Sartoria I've always known."
He stared back at her, "Once I told you I was afraid of hating her only because she was selfish, shallow, foolish. If I felt nahamed then what do you suppose I feel now? Oh, no. She's out of my life forever."
There was a long silence between
them.
"Then I can say no mare," Laulan
ast of me take
ill for a long time. The kindly nuns said slowly. "Only an An had nursed her back to health Pick mercy at least lot had worked the miracle of enlisting George to ber"
a doctor's afii,
Later, outside in the court. the doctor warned Pick that Froufrou must have no excitement Ho point- nd this heart. "After meumonia, here," he there's always danger zaldı.
Pick nodded, her eyes big as saucers and turned to bait bnak up staire and enre for her Minay. She opened the dear of their room to find Froufrou out of bed and dress ing in feverish haste.
"Oh, lawily!" she cried in dismay. "Many, what foh you up?"
"We're going out--" "Dat's unk foolla, Missy. We Aint go no korridge to carry us no where"
"We'l
"No!"
*T'll bring him back tonight," she pleaded in an hour — in less-"
"Not"
"But she's his mother, Georges!" The Inw is on my sido, Louise.“ he said harshly. "She'll never see Georgio again,"
Louise looked at him as if posing
"Poor for the first time. him Froutrou," she said at inst, "low touch she has to forgive us!"
To forgive us!" he exclaimed, "Yes" cried Louise "Once you called her a toy wife woll — wasn't aprotty toy wife what you wanted? You say she was selfish, shallow, foolish. But I know a woman who loved you who was neither selfish, walk, Pick.” Froufrou nor shallow, and not often foolish; handed her a newspaper and with who had all those sensible proper rager, trembling winds, pointed to virtues that you men associate with the Personal Column. "Look womanhood, But was that what you read what it esys hero~"
wanted? Oh no! You never even looked at her except as a friend- na someone to persuade the toy. girl to have you as a husband!"
Then inten! She folded the simper hastily and read aloud: Thanka to St. Michael the arch anyel for favors granted to me"- "Louise!" Georges, for tho first she paused, her eyes skipping down time, realized her true feeling for the column, "Here it is-Liaten, him "Louise you mean →→→→
"Yes," ali inforrupted. Pick: Many, many thanks to Sainte Cathering for every favor granted." that woman." She raised her flushed face. "We'll burn candle to her again, to- night-"
"I won
"You, Louise?" Sho laughed shortly, "You're aur- prised. No wonder. You never aven We aint got no money to go buy saw me for her." ing candlen wid," Pick protested. Hin shook his head "Oh yen," he oflen. you, "Vo aint got no money at all." nald slowly, "I w
"She won't care whether we burn Afterwards."
"After you became tired of your candies or not," crled froufrou.
But I'll leave my garneta for the bargain and I became tired of my curtly. anctifice," the answered poor, with my prayer."
Pick knew Froufrou too well to "after I became, in all ways but try to stop her. As they slowly one, your wife. And Froufrou, poor made their way to the church, the proufrou knew herself for a play- faithful slave thought back to that using that no longer gavo aven night, so many, many years ago, pleasure. What could she do but go when they had both slipped out of away?" the house to light a candle to Sainte Catherine Froufrou to pray for husband, and Pick to pray that the kinks would go out of her hair.
Ile gazed at her steadily. "We Well, she mussd, Froufrou bad gat ten ber husband -- and she'd met have both known a long time that Monsieur Andre, too, that very name you were the woman I should have
married." night.
"Nothing ever happened balwern us to justify what she did, Louise
nothing
"Nothing, Georges 7"
"What?"
This rushing off to church was "But Froufrou enved me from wrong for Mimy; with a quick side that, thank heaven," she anaverad glance, she noted Froufrou's bright) evenly. cheeks and feverish eyes. The doo-) tor had said ---
Her eyes flashed into his. "Now "We're here,” breathed Froufrou that I've seen your cruelty toward and tend the way into the church. one you've wronged in your heart Bhe genuflected than mass her way as much an abe wronged you. I to the altar where she lay her gan give thanks on my knees that I am nels on the rail. Then, dropping to not the wife of such a man! Do you her knees on the prayer bench in think for one minute I could have front of the shrine, the bowed her told you I over loved you if you head.
hadn't killed that love," at last — "I ask you to intercede with our forever?" She turned to the door. Heavenly Father for me, daar "Goodbye, Georgew." In another Sainte Catherine, she prayed.) memout she was gone,
He stood motionies for a mo- "That I may be forgiven all my sins and live a long time. Give me ment, then suddenly ran after her.
be cried. back the love of my dear sister,} "Walt — Dear Hainte Catherine, and restore She looked back at him. to me the love of my husband and
"Wait, Louleo. Taka Georgie to precious child, Grant this miracle, his mother.” Bainte Catherine, I hag and pray, and save my immortal soul, Aman," She remained kneeling an instant, then arose, her face merons and calm. She slowly turned down the alsie, Pick hovering over her. She
Louise Hra made ħor retribuar tion for the unhappinosa ako cauard Froufrom. Will Georges do the mamat Don't miss to morrow's concluding chapter.
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