1. Emily Blatchley pioneered the work of single women missionaries in China and served as personal secretary to the founder of the mission, James Hudson Taylor.
13 Facts About Emily Blatchley
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Emily Blatchley was an 1865 graduate of the Home and Colonial Training College along with her friend, Jane Elizabeth Faulding.
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Emily Blatchley was a governess for the Taylor children: Grace Dyer Taylor, Herbert Hudson Taylor, Frederick Howard Taylor, and Samuel Dyer Taylor.
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Emily Blatchley taught them daily lessons and freed Maria Taylor to participate in more missionary work with her husband.
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Emily Blatchley was the "right hand secretary" of the mission and took charge of much of the correspondence with William Thomas Berger at the home headquarters in England.
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Emily Blatchley traveled with the Taylors as a fellow pioneer missionary and survived the Yangzhou riot in 1868.
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Emily Blatchley struggled with tuberculosis throughout the last period of her life.
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Emily Blatchley, though unknown to the world, was a true heroine, and an instance of this noble, Christ-like self-sacrifice for the good of others.
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Emily Blatchley's memory is fragrant, for her life was consecrated to Christ and the salvation of the heathen.
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Emily Blatchley tended them in health and in sickness, at home and abroad, for years; and as long as health permitted was their only teacher.
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Emily Blatchley daily remembered its missionaries by name at the Throne of Grace, and pleaded continually its cause with God.
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Emily Blatchley ministered to her fellow-missionaries, and nursed them when they were sick.
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Emily Blatchley bore the trial of her faith and that of love as well, for in the cause of missions she sacrificed her heart's affections.