Emily Hammond Ament (1860), Winfield Scott Map of Peking Out-stations 18 34 Von Ketteler Memorial Arch Pastor Meng Chi Tseng and Family Dr. Ament Receiving Village Deputations Madam Ament, age 75 . Mrs. William S. Ament (1901) 58 106 266 Owosso Church (1898) where Farewell Address was Street Chapel and American Bible Society, Entrance to Mission Compound Church and Woman's Union College Mission Compound, Peking (1905) A In far-off, happy days of old, "A figure sinewy, lithe, and strong, I ANCESTRY AND BOYHOOD -O'Brien. N American transferred to China learns to estimate his ancestry from a new point of view. It is enough for the average American lad to think chiefly of the self-made man, and to rejoice in his individuality. As others have risen from humble homes to high honors or to great wealth, the ambition of the American youth leads him to make little of heredity, select his own environment, turn the tides of life and of men to his own personal development. Others have with happy daring adopted the apothegm of the untrammelled poet: "I am Captain of my soul." Whatever may have been the original beating of youthful wings against the bars guarded by the modern angels, Heredity and Environment, which, forceful and fateful, preside over the possibilities of life, William Scott Ament would not have hesitated to accept the prime monitions so constant among the Chinese in quotation, and so full of meaning in their application: "Treasure the origins Search the sources "" "The Princely man," that is the gentleman and scholar, |