“In the afternoon we visited Mrs. James Ware, widow of our pioneer Shanghai missionary, and her school, and also the church and school at Yangtsepoo, where Brother and Sister Ware toiled for so many years.  When this faithful man died, about a year ago, his wife chose to go on with the work rather than return to America, where her three older children are.  Few missionaries in China have left more tender memories of loving service behind then than has James Ware.  Mrs. Ware’s girls’ school is located near her home, and the Chinese teacher is Esther Ware, her adopted daughter.  This girl, who is now about twenty, suffered greatly with her bound feet as a little child.  She cried so much from the pain that her parents said she had a devil, and when gangrene set in and the feet dropped off, they were anxious to get rid of her.  Dr. Macklin took her and, by amputating both legs at the knees, saved her life.  Mr. and Mrs. Ware then adopted her.  She was sent to Miss Lyon’s school in Nanking, and graduated with honor.  She is now a fine Christian teacher and get about with her artificial limbs better than do her sisters with their painfully bound feet.  The school in a small rented room has about thirty-five right girls in it.  They sang very sweetly for us in Chinese, ‘There is a gate that stands ajar.’  Mrs. Ware has been in China twenty-nine years and has reared six children here.  She would be very unhappy anywhere else.”

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Among Asia's Needy Millions, by Stephen Jared Cory, 1915, page 99