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GIRLS FROM CHEFOO'S LOWER SCHOOL DORMITORY (LSD)

GIRLS FROM CHEFOO'S LOWER SCHOOL DORMITORY (LSD) are photographed in Tsingtao, 1945, shortly after their release from the Weihsien Civilian Assembly Center

Back row, from left to right:

Margaret Young, Christine Martin, Betty Patchett,

Middle row:

Audrey Beven, Jean Bruce, Jean Clow, Elizabeth Edwards,

Front row:

Marjorie Harrison, Mabel Andrews, Joyce Michell.

(Mary Taylor had been repatriated to her parents a month earlier.)

Elizabeth Edwards, fourth girl in the middle row, was daughter of China Inland Mission missionaries like most girls in the Lower School Dormitory in Weihsien.

Elizabeth became a well-known sculptor — brilliant work! — and a scholar. In later years she translated and published from original Koine Greek the four New Testament Gospels in a version called The Gospel for Hearers.

The introduction of this beautiful, hardback, 11 1/2” x 9” volume explains its purpose: “The original text is translated with the intention that it should be read aloud in a public forum. This approach recognizes the original expectation of the writers and is a subtle but powerful influence on the choices made during the translation.... The original authors never expected their words to be received in silence in the privacy of a bedroom or study.... The Gospel for Hearers is written as the original was, to be spoken.”

Mary Taylor Previte (October 30, 2019)