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Show tian Herald sent out Mr. Charles Culver and family to take charge of the Industrial Mission and the growth of the work under his supervision is most encouraging. Miss Hartwell, with the other single lady missionaries, has lived in the W. B. M. I. house, doing evangelistic work among the women and having charge of a group of day schools under the care of the mission. When she reached the retiring age of 70 in 1929 the Foochow Mission and Chinese Christian Church invited her to continue to live in China. The American Board gave its consent to the plan and she accepted their invitation so that she is now living there happily surrounded by her many Chinese friends. During her sojourn in China Miss Hartwell has shared with the Chinese the French war in August, 1884, the Boxer Uprising in 1900, the Revolution of 1912, the Communist troubles of 1927 and now the "Depression" with an almost continuous state of warfare both from without and within. We think of her on January 11, 1934, fifty years after taking up her work in Foochow in her home in Wheaton Hall on Sharp Peak Island away from immediate danger. However, her heart bleeds for the suffering of the Chinese and her hands are full in helping them. |