Hiram College - Spider Web Yearbook (Hiram, OH)

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That winter Dr. Kelly was called to Nanking to teach the grandsons of Li Hung Chang, and there Mrs. Kelly resumed her work in the Girls' School, with Mrs., Lyon and Miss Kelly. In May, 1901, Dr. Kelly was permitted to return to Changteh, but the consul would not permit Women to go into the interior. He returned to his wife in August, only to bring to both a fresh disappointment, but in November she was allowed to return with him. I She arrived at Changteh December Io, and after one day at home was taken ill, passing away on the evening of the seventeenth, in spite of skillful and anxious care. She said: 'Aft is all right. I would rather be in China than any place in the world, and it was her choice that her burial place was close to her new home. So in a Chinese coffin, amid foreign sights and sounds and faces, she was laid to rest on the upper terrace of a beautiful hill overlooking the River Yuan, a branch of the Yang-Tse, three miles below the city of Changteh, and a thousand miles from the coast. A missionary has said that no station seems to make much progress until a foreign grave is made, and we are sure that in some way this life was not sac- rificed in vain. A friend writes: 'fit is wonderful how many friends she had made among natives and foreigners alike. Nanking has shed many tears since the news came, and women among whom she had worked there say: Her earnestness was very great, and her loving heart was very largef' The burden of a terrible grief rests on her widowed and childless mother and her desolate young husband, but we know that she will arise, and we catch the echo of the words they sang as they left her sleeping by the river side: Sleep on beloved, sleep and take thy rest, Lay down thy head upon thy Savior's breast, We loved thee well, but Jesus loves thee best,- Good night. Until the Easter glory lights the skies, Until the dead in jesus shall arise, Till He shall come, but not in lowly guise, Good night. MYRTA G. PARSONS. 21

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dl'l'iC GOOCIYICD KQIIQV. ARRIE GOODRICI-I was born in Oskaloosa, Iowa, july 12, 1871, while her father was a professor in that college. 'When she was fifteen months old the father died. I-Ier early child- hood was passed in the country, in Southern Ohio. Later she spent eight years in the Coolville schools, then three years in Athens I-Iigh School and Ohio University. In the fall of ,QI she entered Hiram College, staying out that winter to teach a term of school near her old home. She graduated in '96, leaving a record as a most conscientious and earnest student, a faithful society worker and a help and inspiration to many a fellow student who came within her reach. In the fall of ,96 she went to Cleveland to enter the Kindergarten Training School. I-Ier work was interrupted for a year by illness at home, and she spent the time in teaching. Re-entering the next year she completed the work in -the spring of ,QQ, both herself and her mother having been for some time connected with the Lend-a-I-Iand Mis- sion of Celveland. She seemed in a rare degree to possess the talents demanded by her chosen work, and won the highest esteem of her teachers not only as an able student but as a peculiarly successful worker. In january of the same year she had been called to go as a Kindergartener to Japan. VVhile it had not been her intention to enter the foreign field, she had always held herself in the attitude of readiness for any call of the Master. And she went, sailing from San Francisco, September 29, 1899. At about the time of her landing changes of the laws made her particular Work impossible, and at best it began to seem of doubtful use there. In March of 1900, she went on into China, beginning the study of the language and taking, with the help of Mary Kelly, as interpreter, a kindergarten class in the Christian Girls' School in Nanking, The Boxer uprising made it necessary for her to go with the other mission- aries to the coast, and she spent some time in Shanghai, where she was married, August 22, to Dr. William Kelly, with whom she had become acquainted during her long voyage from America the year before. I-Ie was also a refugee from his inland station, Changteh, in the anti-foreign province of I-Iunan, where he was establishing a hospital and orphanage. I-Ie is described by those who l-:new him as a man of fine intellectuality and Christian character, and the union, to last but sixteen months, was one of supreme happiness. 20

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