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- Forty Years in Russia. The Rev. N. F. Hoijer
- Crosses the Caspian
- Missionaries at Kashgar
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mountains and reached Kashgar in Central Asia. I had to go in spite
of the Russian government and in spite of the Chinese government,
because they had agreed that no European could travel that way
without special permission from their governments, and I could in no way
get such permission. I left a converted Turkish mullah in Kashgar
and I returned to the Caucasus. God blessed my brother in Central
Asia; he translated the New Testament into the language of the Sarts.
It is a language which has had the same influence over the population
of Central Asia that the classic German has had on the different
branches of the Germanic race. As far as one can see, never had the
truth of the Gospel been preached there before.[1]
From the shores of the Caspian Sea eastward, I traveled among
many branches of tribes and peoples who never had the Gospel
preached to them. In Bokhara there are thousands of Jews who never
knew the books of the Talmud.
Missionaries at Kashgar
From the beginning of the mission work in Kashgar there have been
important developments. There are more than twenty missionaries
in that field. Among them several medical men. We have built
stations and hospitals, but to this day, they have not yet come in
contact with any missionaries of those societies which have penetrated
into China from the sea coast. Some of them have been honored both
by the Chinese and the Russian emperors. One of them has received
a standard to be carried before him on which it is written: “The best
Doctor in China.” The Russian emperor has given one missionary a
gold box set with diamonds with his initials.
In speaking of this, I am reminded of a story of the two Swedish
poets Runeberg and Topelius, Both of them were living in Finland.
[1] We would quote regarding Rev. N. F. Hoijer’s pioneer journey
through Central Asia from the pen of Rev. Paul Waldenstrom, a
Swedish divine, now dead, who in his time was looked upon as Sweden’s
most popular speaker. Paul Waldenstrom in a letter dated Stockholm,
June 8th, 1893, to the editor of the Mission Friend, in Chicago, writes these
lines which we give in English translation:
“As the readers of the Mission Friend probably know. Rev. Hoijer, one
year ago, made a very daring and exceedingly dangerous journey through
Central Asia to the west of China, to find out if it were possible to
start a mission there. He succeeded in this attempt and found, also,
that the conditions there were very favorable for establishing a
mission. Never had there been any Christian mission there. Hoijer left a
missionary in charge of the station and this man wrote the most
thrilling appeal, saying it was needed to send many more missionaries.
Hoijer’s expedition has evoked a great interest in the missionary world.
Foreign missionary boards have written to us and have expressed that
they were greatly marvelling that it was possible to achieve such a
thing, and a president of a missionary board in Germany has come to
our annual conference and mentioned in his letter that he was coming
to see the missionary society whose missionaries have been successful
in achieving this.”—The Editor.
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