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CALVIN WILSON MATEER

C. W. MATEER

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Calvin Wilson Mateer

FORTY-FIVE YEARS A MISSIONARY
IN SHANTUNG, CHINA

A BIOGRAPHY

BY DANIEL W. FISHER

PHILADELPHIA
THE WESTMINSTER PRESS
1911

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Copyright, 1911, by
The Trustees of the Presbyterian Board of
Publication and Sabbath School Work

Published September, 1911

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CONTENTS

	PAGE
Introduction	9
CHAPTER I
The Old Home	15
Birth—The Cumberland Valley—Parentage—Brothers and Sisters, Father, Mother, Grandfather—Removal to the “Hermitage”—Life on the Farm—In the Home—Stories of Childhood and Youth.
CHAPTER II
The Making of the Man	27
Native Endowments—Influence of the Old Home—A Country Schoolmaster—Hunterstown Academy—Teaching School—Dunlap’s Creek Academy—Profession of Religion—Jefferson College—Recollections of a Classmate—The Faculty—The Class of 1857—A Semi-Centennial Letter.
CHAPTER III
Finding His Life Work	40
Mother and Foreign Missions—Beaver Academy—Decision to be a Minister—Western Theological Seminary—The Faculty—Revival—Interest in Missions—Licentiate—Considering Duty as to Missions—Decision—Delaware, Ohio—Delay in Going—Ordination—Marriage—Going at Last.
CHAPTER IV
Gone to the Front	57
Bound to Shantung, China—The Voyage—Hardships and Trials on the Way—At Shanghai—Bound for Chefoo—Vessel on the Rocks—Wanderings on Shore—Deliverance and Arrival at Chefoo—By Shentza to Tengchow.	[vi]
CHAPTER V
The New Home	70
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