英文文献
Strenuous Days
The experience described above is the compensation Mr.Goldsworthy(高志华) finds to cheer him amid arduous and dangerous itinerations over the mountainous regions of West China.He was then on a tour which covered eight weeks,and extended through the country occupied by the Nosu and Miao tribespcople.Travel in such a region means constant strain and discomfort,especially when brigands abound.Our little Christian communities among those hills have suffered terribly from the bandits.The visit of the missionary means a very great deal to them.Some of the main roads had been almost abandoned on account of the brigands.Mr.Goldsworthy says he went by the main road to Weining,and then adds:“I say ‘main’ road with some reservation,as no one hardly dare travel on it in recent years for brigandage.In many places it is all overgrown with weeds and overhung with unpruned trees and bushes,so that it is more like cutting one’s way through a jungle.However,we got safely through,though at one point in imminent danger on account of practically daily robbery.Ours was evidently a ‘lucky day,’or at any rate a‘Day of Grace.’”
Mr.Goldsworthy was accompanied by the Nosu pastor,Mr.Nieh(聂文焕), B.A.,whose son,Dr.Nieh(聂光廷), is carrying on medical work in Weining(威宁).The doctor uses temporary premises pending the erection of a small hospital,the erection of which has been delayed in securing satisfactory title to the land.
Mr. Goldsworthy, after Mr.Hudspeth(王树德) leaves for furlough,will have charge of all the Chinese,Nosu and Miao work in the Chaotong(昭通) area.It is an impossible task for one man.He will have the cheering company of Mr. Sandbach(尚德本),whose first year must be chiefly occupied in acquiring the language.
Mr.Goldsworthy properly craves prayer for Weining and the Nosu pastor.I would earnestly solicit special prayer for Mr.Goldsworthy himself during the arduous months ahead.
C.Stedeford(循道公会海外秘书期特德福特)
February,Missionary Echo,1932:26-27.
