Download or read book From Sunrise Land; Letters from Japan written by Amy Wilson Carmichael and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ... And like the plum blossom are you, patiently bearing the suffering, Fearing neither the blast, nor the frost, nor the snow of the winter, Softly it sheddeth its petals, leaving the opening cherry Sweetly to taste of the joy of the many trees budding thereafter. l'ained are our hearts at the parting, but if the flower never fallelh, Never may it develop the glory of perfect fruition. So let us bear the pain of the cruel but brief separation, All for the sake of the fruit it will certainly bear hereafter. Like a brave soldier are you: God sent you to fight in our battles, Saving the perishing souls bound fast in the snare of the devil. Closely united in spirit, fighting still under our Captain, One shall our song be of triumph, when the long fight is all ended, Peacefully rest you your heart so, never a fear for the issue. Though you are out of our sight, and far far away o'er the waters, Lost to our vision as smoke-cloud loseth itself in the distance, Still standing there by the sea, we lovingly follow in spirit, Longing to hear of you safely reaching the shore of your homeland. Back again at Matsuye. After seeing the doctor, as every one advised, I returned with Hilda and Nurse Evans, who were waiting in Kobe for their passports. And not being up to much study, or other sensible pursuit, during the journey over the hills, I scribbled bits of its story there and back for you. Please skip, if you feel it too painfully elastic. Kuruma riding is jolty indeed, so much so, you cannot attempt to read. And as my very rebellious brain refuses a word of sense to retain. I think I may as well spend the time in pickling our journey in spirits of rhyme, Affording it thus the recreation of a total change of occupation. Our kuruma men are the greatest...