Pearl S. Buck

Deacon · Jun 28, 2015

When John Lossing Buck took the family to Ithaca the next year, Pearl accepted an invitation to address a luncheon of Presbyterian women at the Astor Hotel in New York City. Her talk was titled “Is There a Case for the Foreign Missionary?” and her answer was a barely qualified “no”. She told her American audience that she welcomed Chinese to share her Christian faith, but argued that China did not need an institutional church dominated by missionaries who were too often ignorant of China and arrogant in their attempts to control it. When the talk was published in Harper's magazine,[9] the scandalized reaction led Pearl to resign her position with the Presbyterian Board. In 1934, Pearl left China, never to return, while John Lossing Buck remained and later remarried.[10]

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More than a hundred years earlier Hudson Taylor irked mission boards by dressing like and taking on the customs of the Chinese people he was ministering to.
I'd wonder if he would understand her sentiments.

That night he took the step he had been prayerfully considering—called in a barber, and had himself so transformed in appearance that his own mother could hardly have known him. To put on Chinese dress without shaving the head is comparatively a simple matter; but Hudson Taylor went all lengths, leaving only enough of the fair, curly hair to grow into the queue of the Chinaman. He had prepared a dye, moreover, with which he darkened this remaining hair, to match the long, black braid that at first must do duty for his own. Then in the morning he put on as best he might the loose, unaccustomed garments, and appeared for the first time in the gown and satin shoes of a “Teacher,” or man of the scholarly class.

HOW it all opened up after this step had been taken! Returning alone from Hang-chow Bay, Hudson Taylor hardly knew himself for the same person who had so often been tried by the petty annoyances and more serious hindrances to his work by curious and excited crowds. Plenty of people still followed him whenever he became known as a foreigner, and it was not difficult to gather an audience to listen to the Gospel. But the rowdy element seemed somehow to have disappeared with his European dress, and if he wished to pass unnoticed he was able to do so, even in the busiest streets. This, of course, greatly lessened the strain of being much alone among the people, and at the same time gave him access to a more respectable, serious-minded class.

Taylor, F. H., & Taylor, G. (1995). Hudson Taylor in Early Years: The Growth of a Soul (p. 316-317). Littleton, CO; Mississauga, ON; Kent, TN: OMF Book.
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Rob

Deacon · Jun 30, 2015

How timely...

Forty years after it was finished, the last work by Nobel Prize–winning novelist Pearl S. Buck has been discovered.

The Eternal Wonder: A Novel (2013) by Pearl S. Buck

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