Calvin Wilson Mateer, forty-five years a missionary in Shantung, China

by D. W. Fisher

In the “Pilgrim’s Progress” we read: “After this it was noised abroad that Mr. Valiant-for-truth was taken with a summons by the same post as the other; and had this for a token that the summons was true, ‘That his pitcher was broken at the fountain.’ When he understood it he called for his friends, and told them of it. Then, said he, I am going to my Father’s; and though with great difficulty I am got thither, yet now I do not repent me of all the trouble I had been at to arrive where I am. My sword I give to him that succeeds me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that may get it. My marks and scars I carry with me, to be a witness for me that I have fought His battle who now will be my rewarder. When the day that he must go hence was come, many accompanied him to the river side, into which as he went he said, ‘Death, where is thy sting?’ And as he went down deeper, he said, ‘Grave, where is thy victory?’ So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.”

INDEX

• Aground off coast of China, [63]
• Algebras, [164]
• Anglo-Chinese college, [216], [218]
• Anniversary of graduation, [39]
• Apparatus, [209], [211], [244]
• Apprehensions as to China, [308], [313]
• Arithmetic, [162]
• Baller, Rev. Mr., [182], [258], [333]
• Baptism, infant, tract, [160]
• Beaver Academy, [43], [239]
• Bergen, Paul D., [225], [229], [325]
• Birth, [15]
• Birthday, seventieth, [273], [295]
• Books in preparation, [160], [166]
• Boyish traits, [17], [25], [237]
• “Boxer” uprising, [264], [284], [286]
• Brown, Arthur J., [9], [12], [336]
• Brown, Julia A., [53]
• Brown, Margaret, [54], [123], [143], [153], [168]
• Business capability, [154]
• Canal, Grand, [169]
• Candidate for ministry, [42], [44], [48]
• Capp, Mrs., [54], [123], [143], [144], [153], [168], [276]
• Caring for converts and churches, [123], [126], [174], [178], [183], [192], [193], [194], [201]
• Catechism, [161]
• Chalfant, W. P., [325]
• Chapel at Tengchow, [110]
• Characteristics, personal, [25], [28], [45], [82], [83], [90], [91], [101], [148], [170], [171], [236], [320], [324], [330], [332], [333], [335], [336]
• Characters written, Chinese, [165], [253]
• Chefoo, [67], [203], [264], [265], [273], [281], [299], [300], [320], [326]
• China, appointed to, [57]
• China as a mission field, [70], [317]
• China, the “new,” [150], [286], [305], [311], [317]
• Chinese characteristics, [308], [312]
• Chinese language, [105], [108], [165], [252], [269]
• Chinese Presbyterian church, [199], [200], [204], [205]
• Chow Yuen, [123], [184]
• Christianity in China, [173], [310], [313]
• Classmates, [37], [38]
• Coal press, [75]
• Coffin, making a, [242]
• College student, [34], [93]
• Conference, first missionary, [252], [255]
• Conference, second missionary, [252]
• Conference, third missionary, [266], [267], [272]
• Controversies, [151], [170], [197], [203], [290]
• Conversion, [92]
• Converts, early, [123], [142], [143], [176], [177], [192]
• Corbett, Hunter, [59], [62], [67], [76], [102], [116], [119], [144], [176], [239], [300], [327], [328]
• Country school, [29]
• Cumberland valley, [15]
• Curriculum of Tengchow school, [136], [138], [144]
• Dangers, [63], [121], [122], [124], [280], [281], [283], [284]
• Death, [324]
• Delaware, Ohio, [52], [58]
• Delay after appointment, [51], [54], [99]
• Discipline, church, [142], [175], [200]
• Discipline, school, [140], [141]
• Diven, grandfather, [20]
• Doctorate of Divinity, [293]
• Doctorate of Laws, [293]
• Duffield, James, [30]
• Dunlaps creek academy, [32]
• Dwelling houses, [80], [228]
• Education and missions, [129], [159], [312], [315]
• Education, the “new,” in China, [244]
• Electrical machinery, [214], [248]
• Elterich, W. O., [328]
• Employment for converts, [246], [334]
• English Baptist mission, [225], [335]
• English in school and college, [203], [216], [218], [230], [292]
• Entertainments, [245], [250]
• Experimentation, scientific, [213]
• Faber hospital, [322]
• Famines, [287]
• Farm life, [22]
• Father, [16], [18]
• Field, Cyrus W., [213]
• Fitch, G. F., [157], [163], [170]
• Funeral services, [325], [326]
• Furloughs, [145], [298], [299], [300]
• General Assembly, [206], [303]
• Generosity, [171], [172], [287]
• Geometry, [163]
• Goodrich, Chauncey, [91], [165], [166], [258], [259], [266], [271], [272], [319], [320], [322], [323], [331]
• Graduates of college, [144], [145], [149], [233], [295], [323], [326]
• Grier, Margaret, [82]
• Hamilton, W. B., [332]
• Happer, Andrew P., [216]
• Haven, Ada, [299]
• Hayes, Watson M., [147], [164], [179], [210], [214], [225], [240], [322], [323], [329]
• Hays, Isaac N., [93]
• Hebrew at Chautauqua, [299]
• “Hermitage,” the, [22], [238], [304]
• Home life, [23], [41], [79], [82]
• Honors and distinctions, [38], [293]
• House-building, [76], [78], [228]
• Hunterstown academy, [31]
• Hymn book and hymns, [161]
• Illness, last, [321]
• Inns, Chinese, [68], [116]
• Invitations declined, [43], [52], [218], [294]
• Irwin, J. P., [328]
• Itinerations, [112], [116], [119], [123], [124], [125], [127], [184], [186], [329]
• Japanese bombardment of Tengchow, [284]
• Jefferson College, [33], [238]
• Kiao-chow, [195], [286]
• Kirkwood, Mrs. Jennie, [17], [23], [40]
• Korean expedition, [297]
• Kwan Yin temple, [73], [129], [135], [210]
• Language, learning the, [105], [108], [109]
• Licentiate, a, [49]
• Licentiates, Chinese, [201]
• Locomotives and Baldwin Works, [239], [243]
• Lwan, Pastor, [327]
• Maker, a, of “new” China, [309]
• Mandarin Dictionary, [165], [166]
• Mandarin Elementary Lemons, [170], [300]
• Mandarin Lessons, [167], [169], [172]
• Mandarin version, [252], [255], [256], [259], [263], [264], [265], [267], [268], [271], [319], [321], [322], [331]
• Manufacturing, [240]
• Marriage, [53], [299]
• Martin, W. A. P., [167], [249], [306]
• Mateer, Ada Haven, [82], [170], [241], [248], [250], [266], [299], [303], [319], [321], [322], [324], [333]
• Mateer, Horace N., [17]
• Mateer, Jennie W., [17], [23], [40]
• Mateer, John L., [17], [156], [278]
• Mateer, Julia A., [53], [62], [78], [108], [114], [123], [126], [129], [134], [137], [147], [169], [170], [192], [194], [276], [280], [298], [299]
• Mateer, Lillian, [17], [146], [147]
• Mateer, Robert M., [17], [146], [323], [324], [326]
• Mateer, William D., [17], [240]
• Mechanical ability, [155], [236]
• Medical work, [86], [298]
• Mercer, S. B., [32]
• “Methods of Missions,” [151], [196], [292]
• Miao, [123], [184]
• Miller, J. R., [44]
• Mills, Rev., [72], [114], [126], [167], [174], [179], [194], [199], [243], [276], [291], [298]
• Ministry, a Chinese, [161], [200], [314]
• “Mission,” the, [196]
• Missionary, a foreign, [40], [42], [49], [51], [54], [57]
• Missionary qualifications, [316]
• Moderator of Synod, [203]
• Mother, [16], [20], [40], [50], [299], [304]
• Museum, [245]
• Nanking, [169], [294]
• Nevius, J. L., [71], [145], [151], [196], [256], [259]
• New Testament revision, [258], [260], [264], [266]
• Ningpo, [203]
• Observatory, [209], [214]
• Old Testament revision, [272], [273], [319], [322]
• Ordination, [53]
• Parentage, [16], [18]
• Pastorate, [179], [180], [192]
• Pecuniary affairs, [171], [172]
• Peking, [264], [278], [285], [294]
• Periodicals and contributions, [150]
• Persecutions, [187], [195]
• Policy of college, [230]
• Preacher, as a, [91], [102], [181]
• Preaching in Chinese, [109], [204]
• Premises of school and college, [129], [135], [147], [209], [210], [229]
• Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, [335]
• Presbytery of Shantung, [199], [200]
• Presidency of college, [179], [214], [229], [231]
• Press, the mission, [152], [155], [157], [278]
• Profession of religion, [33]
• Provincial college, [215], [247], [309]
• Publications, [150], [160], [161], [162], [164], [165], [166], [167], [169], [170]
• Pupils, [129], [132], [134], [135], [137], [138], [146]
• “Rebels,” Tai-Ping, [71], [280]
• Religious life, [33], [89], [93], [101], [104]
• Removal to Wei Hsien, [226]
• Revisers, Mandarin version, [256], [258], [264], [272]
• Sabbath School letters, [133]
• School-Book Commission, [159]
• Science Hall, [228], [229]
• Science teaching, [212]
• Shanghai, [62], [152], [202], [252], [278], [282], [285]
• Shantung, province, [71], [111], [284], [289]
• Shantung college, [128], [207], [220], [253], [303]
• Shantung Christian University, [222], [234]
• “Shen,” [151], [170], [291]
• Siberian trip, [243], [300], [302]
• Social life, [82], [193]
• Southern Baptist mission, [70], [220]
• Stated supply, [178], [179]
• Stereotyping, [155]
• Stove, making a, [75]
• Student visitors, [108], [245]
• Students converted, [142], [143], [149]
• Superintending the mission press, [152], [153]
• Surgery, [86]
• Synod of China, [152], [201]
• Tai An, [124]
• Tengchow, [68], [70], [84], [108], [208], [215], [264], [280], [281], [304]
• Tengchow church, [72], [174], [177], [192]
• Tengchow school, [129], [132], [135], [138], [140], [146], [149], [153], [277]
• Tengchow station, [71], [73], [81], [223]
• Terms, ecclesiastical, [204]
• Terms, technical and scientific, [159], [160]
• Theological student, a, [46], [96]
• Theology, teaching, [212]
• Tientsin massacre, the, [281]
• Tours and travels, [68], [112], [114], [116], [119], [123], [124], [125], [126], [169], [171], [192], [193], [296], [298], [299], [300], [322]
• Translating and its lessons, [269], [271]
• Travel, modes of, [68], [112]
• Tributes, [327-338]
• Tsinan, [125], [226], [234], [289]
• Tsingchow, [119], [120], [125], [226], [229]
• Tsingtao, [233], [322], [325]
• Tsou Li Wen, [259], [260]
• Type-making, [155]
• Union in Shantung Christian University, [226]
• Union of Presbyterians in China, [204], [205]
• Voyage, first, [58], [99]
• Walker, Mrs. Lillian, [17], [18], [146], [147]
• Wang Yuen Teh, [259], [327]
• War, Chino-Japanese, [284]
• Wedding journey, [303]
• Wei Hsien, [119], [226], [228], [285], [295], [330]
• Wei Hsien, at, [228], [243], [248], [250], [295]
• Welcome at Tengchow, [145]
• Wells, Mrs. Margaret G., [82]
• Wells, Mason, [82], [285], [326]
• West Shantung mission, [325], [334]
• Western Theological Seminary, [43], [46]
• Wilson, Samuel, [33]
• Workshop, [240], [241]
• Yangtse, the, [169], [171], [253]
• Yuan Shih K’ai, [215], [284]