CHI-NA 2014 - Back to the Kan-su-Ti-betan Border

Min-chow, Chi-na

Saturday, March 1, 2014

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Back to the Kan-su-Ti-betan Border

Here is an article from the Alliance Weekly dated June 20, 1931 about my great grandfather and grandmother, Rev. and Mrs. William Ruhl and their ministry in Min-chow, Chi-na:

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Christian Young

THE ALLIANCE WEEKLY

June 20, 1931

BACK TO THE KAN-SU-TI-BETAN BORDER

by Rev. Thomas Moseley

...At Min-chow we find the Rev. and Mrs. William Ruhl, pioneer missionaries, who have weathered the storms of thirty-five years on this far away field, and who have watched the work grow from the single missionary centre with a handful of scattered inquirers, to a score of established stations and out-stations, with their hundreds of baptized Christians.

When they first reached the field, they were reviled by Chi-nese, Mo-hammedans, and Ti-betans, but now, because of their “labor of love and patience of hope,” they are revered by all. It has cost them much suffering and sacrifice to keep true to the vision of pioneer days. Their noble example in regard to their family has been a pattern to all, and especially to us. They have left their two daughters in the United States, ten thousand miles behind, and also leave their only son in Central Chi-na, thirty-two days' journey from them by mule trail and railroad. But not a word of complaint. They were the first Chi-nese workers to get back to our field. As they made the long overland journey, Mrs. Ruhl wrote, “What joy to be here for Him.” Mr. Ruhl is Chairman for the Chi-nese work, and needs our prayers as he would lead on the youthful indigenous Chi-nese Church to spiritual manhood.