The fifth brother, Ho Wooi-shang, became an assistant in the business of A-tick, Hongkong's most successful tailor at that time. In addition he had a business at Honam in Canton. While visiting there he was wounded by a Chinese tax officer. He lingered long enough to make his will but died not long after leaving a family of small children.
In the collection of the Legge family, which was deposited in the Archives of the London Missionary Society, there is a photograph of Ho Shun-chee, alias A-lloy. On the back is written: “To Miss Legge with kind regards from her sincere friend,” and an added note by Dr. Legge's daughter, Edith: "He told me he had attended the emperor when he went to pray at the Altar of Heaven."
It is indeed a long step from a Hongkong classroom to the Altar of Heaven at Peking.
TO THE GOLDFIELDS DOWN UNDER IN SEARCH OF CONVERTS
Among the students of Dr. Legge's school in Hongkong were a number of boys from the Ho clan. Two orphaned brothers. Ho Low-yuk and Ho Mei-yuk, were near relatives of the Rev. Ho Fuk-tong. Both went to Australia after finishing school.
They were part of an exodus of Hongkong-educated boys seek- ing their fortunes in overseas communities. As English speakers in a place where their countrymen were cut off from the general community, they served to bridge the gap. At the same time, gov- ernment officials and Christians interested in the conversion of the Chinese needed someone through whom they could commu- nicate with the immigrants.
A-low and another young man from the school were urged by Dr. Legge to emigrate to Australia. Because of the unsettled condi- tions in China created by the Taiping rebellion, Dr. Legge felt it was not a good field for these two young men he had trained as religious workers. So provided with letters of introduction to a Congregational minister in Melbourne off they sailed.
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The fifth brother, Ho Wooi-shang, became an assistant in the business of A-tick, Hongkong's most successful tailor at that time. In addition he had a business at Honam in Canton. While visiting there he was wounded by a Chinese tax officer. He lingered long enough to make his will but died not long after leaving a family of small children.
In the collection of the Legge family, which was deposited in the Archives of the London Missionary Society, there is a photograph of Ho Shun-chee, alias A-lloy. On the back is written: “To Miss Legge with kind regards from her sincere friend,” and an added note by Dr. Legge's daughter, Edith: "He told me he had attended the emperor when he went to pray at the Altar of Heaven."
It is indeed a long step from a Hongkong classroom to the Altar of Heaven at Peking.
TO THE GOLDFIELDS DOWN UNDER IN SEARCH OF CONVERTS
Among the students of Dr. Legge's school in Hongkong were a number of boys from the Ho clan. Two orphaned brothers. Ho Low-yuk and Ho Mei-yuk, were near relatives of the Rev. Ho Fuk-tong. Both went to Australia after finishing school.
They were part of an exodus of Hongkong-educated boys seek- ing their fortunes in overseas communities. As English speakers in a place where their countrymen were cut off from the general community, they served to bridge the gap. At the same time, gov- ernment officials and Christians interested in the conversion of the Chinese needed someone through whom they could commu- nicate with the immigrants.
A-low and another young man from the school were urged by Dr. Legge to emigrate to Australia. Because of the unsettled condi- tions in China created by the Taiping rebellion, Dr. Legge felt it was not a good field for these two young men he had trained as religious workers. So provided with letters of introduction to a Congregational minister in Melbourne off they sailed.
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