Siege Days (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Siege Days: Personal Experiences of American Women and Children During the Peking SiegeWe have received wonderful mercies. The larger ones have already been given to the world, but not the countless little ones that made up our daily life during that summer of 1900. Let us gather up these fragments, after the great miracle, that nothing be lost. Let us record them now lest we forget.The plan is that every lady and child among the American missionaries should write on some subject. Of course, children are not limited to any subject. Let their little hands pick up all the crumbs they can.Some will object that enough books have already been writ ten ou the siege, as they have, on the causes of the uprising, its statistics, diaries of the siege, etc. But nothing exactly like this. This is to give the small details of daily life, a record of little daily mercies, which cannot but be interesting to Chris tian women, and which would otherwise die in oblivion.Let us all pray for the blessing of God upon the book, that His name may be glorified by it.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.