A view of the Ing Hok [Ing Tai] River from the piazza of the American missionary residence. Mountains cascade over the opposite bank of the river. Written beneath the photograph in the album: "The river (Ing Hok river) to the eastward. Under the cross, two churches [Puai-sioh? Unqiang?] twelve miles away from Ing Hok city. There are twelve of these mountain churches." The Smiths were a family of Congregational missionaries in China, 1901-1950, primarily in Ing Tai and Foochow [Fuzhou]. Edward Huntington Smith devoted nearly 50 years of his life to running an orphanage, raising funds, and promoting Christian education in Ing Tai, Fukien [Fujian], China. His wife, Grace W. Thomas Smith served as a Kindergarten teacher in the United States and China.
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