--- title: Opening — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · full text with trees description: Opening, «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: GLEANINGS FROM CHINESE FOLKLORE --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Gleanings from Chinese folklore](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/) / Opening # Opening Opening of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell: the whole text, 56 sentences and 1086 words. The small number after every sentence leads to its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. GLEANINGS FROM CHINESE FOLKLORE[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") BY NELLIE N.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") RUSSELL[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") With Some of Her Stories of Life in China, to which are added Memorial Sketches of the Author from Associates and Friends[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") COMPILED BY MARY H. PORTER[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") New York Chicago Toronto Fleming H. Revell Company London and Edinburgh[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") To Miss Russell’s fellow-workers, who still have the joy of service in the great old-new land which she loved; and who tread the unfamiliar ways with more strength and courage, because in many of them she was the Pathfinder, this little volume is affectionately dedicated by[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") M. H. P.[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") La Mesa, California, January, 1915.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") FOREWORD[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") It was in the autumn of 1890 that I sat one evening looking into the face of a young woman who was passing through Tung-chow on her way to her new field of work in Peking.[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") A few words about her work in the past explained the sadness of the brown eyes which had already seen many life tragedies in her five years of city mission work, but their merry sparkle when she entered into the happy flow of talk about her showed that her sympathies were as full and rich for joy as for sorrow.[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") Hers was one of those rare natures in which all the lives about them are relived.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") Such lives are intense, but their earth span is short.[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") Before many years Miss Russell knew the life histories of most of the thousand Christians connected with the Peking Congregational churches and outstations, knew them with her heart as well as her head.[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") The timepiece was never made which could tell her that the night hours were passing when she sat in a humble, dirty home in a far-off outstation beside some toil-worn, heartsore woman, listening to the details of the sordid daily life, and the wrecked hopes, then resurrecting hope, and ennobling life by linking it with the Divine life.[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") She took no note of the lapse either of time or strength when, in her city home, she entertained guests of high or low degree with equal courtesy and charm.[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") Hers was the gift of making even the brief, formal call an opportunity for speaking the word which might lead to an upward look or an outward vision.[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") The Chinese pastor came to Miss Russell with his problems, also the child with her new toy.[19](19/ "tree and pragmatics") She loved flowers, animals, and children, the latter with the passionate love of a mother-heart.[20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") One who watched her taking a little dead goldfish out of the water said, “Don’t keep goldfish any more, it hurts you so when they die.”[21](21/ "tree and pragmatics") But the things which hurt could no more be put outside of that wide-embracing life than could the things which gave a thrill of joy, or enraptured her with a sense of the beautiful.[22](22/ "tree and pragmatics") The tragedy of 1900 brought to one of such wideness and depth of friendship and intimate knowledge a sorrow whose outward tokens were whitening hair and a physically weakened constitution.[23](23/ "tree and pragmatics") The first massacres in the country brought refugees to Peking, to whom she ministered day and night.[24](24/ "tree and pragmatics") In the British Legation she went to the hospital to nurse wounded soldiers when she needed herself to be carried there on a stretcher.[25](25/ "tree and pragmatics") Naturally sensitive not only to pain but to danger and to all that was unsightly or repulsive, her sufferings during those two months cannot be measured.[26](26/ "tree and pragmatics") The year that followed was a drawn-out agony, as she heard the stories of martyrdoms, listened with tense sympathy to the tales of returned refugees, gathered orphans and widows into schools, and with a faith that never faltered planned to build up the waste places.[27](27/ "tree and pragmatics") She might indeed have said, with Paul, “I die daily.”[28](28/ "tree and pragmatics") Miss Russell was large in her plans as well as in her feelings.[29](29/ "tree and pragmatics") The past could not chain her, the present could not bind her.[30](30/ "tree and pragmatics") A Bible school for women rose in her future, and after it became a fact, and others were doing most of the routine work, she passed on to work into a reality dreams of a school for women of the higher classes, with lecture courses, mothers’ clubs, and training for social service, a work which for many years to come cannot reach the proportions of her vision.[31](31/ "tree and pragmatics") There could be no more fitting memorial for Miss Russell than buildings which would help to make her dreams come true.[32](32/ "tree and pragmatics") If Mark Hopkins, one student, and a log made a college, Miss Russell, a Chinese woman, and a tiny Chinese room made a Social Settlement.[33](33/ "tree and pragmatics") Miss Russell was not always logical and judicial.[34](34/ "tree and pragmatics") Her virtues carried their dear earthly defects with them.[35](35/ "tree and pragmatics") From those who disappointed her hope after long patience of love she might recoil into an attitude which seemed like prejudice.[36](36/ "tree and pragmatics") Sometimes she walked so far with others into the Valley of Baca that no strength was left to make it a well.[37](37/ "tree and pragmatics") It might seem that the outpouring of her life was too lavish, and so injudicious.[38](38/ "tree and pragmatics") But who knows?[39](39/ "tree and pragmatics") The impulse which went upward in prayer and outward in loving service had its fruition in a clearer vision of the earth mission of the Master, a vision for herself, and a vision for the thousands with whom she came in touch.[40](40/ "tree and pragmatics") And China needs nothing more than she needs this vision.[41](41/ "tree and pragmatics") For those who find their richest fruition in deeds accomplished, we crave the threescore years and ten, crowded with achievement.[42](42/ "tree and pragmatics") Those whose gifts lie in loving and befriending may sooner rest from their labours, for their works do follow them, and love and friendship are deathless.[43](43/ "tree and pragmatics") Those of us in Peking who walk where Miss Russell’s feet have trod still see the spiritual blossoming of that beautiful life.[44](44/ "tree and pragmatics") Luella Miner.[45](45/ "tree and pragmatics") CONTENTS[46](46/ "tree and pragmatics") An Appreciation of Nellie N.[47](47/ "tree and pragmatics") Russell By Charles Frederic Goss, her pastor in Chicago.[48](48/ "tree and pragmatics") 13 Nellie N.[49](49/ "tree and pragmatics") Russell (Historical) 16 Miss Nellie N.[50](50/ "tree and pragmatics") Russell’s Unique Work An Appreciation—Mrs. Chauncey Goodrich.[51](51/ "tree and pragmatics") 31 Miss Russell’s Funeral Service 41[52](52/ "tree and pragmatics") A Tartar Joan of Arc 47 A Daughter of the Orient 52 The Wild Goose and the Sparrow 56 A Chinese Hero Han Hsin.[53](53/ "tree and pragmatics") 61 A Chinese Tea-House Story Chi Hsiao Tang.[54](54/ "tree and pragmatics") 71 The Jade Treasure 82 Chinese Heroism 88 Literary Glory 92 How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies 98 A Daughter of the Present 106 T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics 110 A Story of Old China 124[55](55/ "tree and pragmatics") Notes 169[56](56/ "tree and pragmatics") - next →: [An Appreciation of 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