growing cause of missions in China was his able paper on "Christian Comity" at the great conference in Shanghai, in 1907. I had seen him on various other occasions, but never before had he seemed to me quite so much the Christian statesman as when he outlined and enforced, with eloquent and powerful argument, a great plan of essential union for all the Christian forces of the empire.
Ament is gone. There are many circles of admiring friends in America who sorrow over his departure. But next to the loved ones of his own family there are none who will feel a heavier lonesomeness than his associates in the North China Mission and especially the large company of Chinese Christians to whom he was a tower of strength and a steadfast friend.
ADAMS, Rev. W. M., D. D., rec-
ommendation, 33
Aiken, Rev. E. E., 98
Aitcheson, Rev. W. H., assistant
interpreter to ambassador, 56
Ament, Winfield Scott, moves to
Owosso, 15; trip to New Or-
leans, 16; marriage, 17; business
activity, 18; death, 19
Ament, Mrs. Emily Hammond,
ancestry, 17; marriage, 18; home
life, 34; Dr. Lindley's visit, 34;
with son at Medina, 88; return to
Owosso, 93-96; removes to Ober-
lin, 310; death, 336; letters from
her son, work among the people,
47; summer touring, 48; study
of language, 51; temples at
hills, 60; death of his sister, 68;
trip to Fang Shan, 73; Emperor
goes to Temple of Heaven, 270;
mission meeting, 274; Cho Chou
premises, 287; Pu An Tun,
287; Wen An, 288; Christ-
mas, 297; Manchu pupil, 308;
pianola playing, 308
Ament, William Scott, ancestry,
14, 17; birth, 14; boyhood, 22;
life at Oberlin, 23, 27; seminary
life, N. Y., 29-30; Andover
Seminary, 31-35; marriage, 35;
ordination, 36; sails for China,
36; life at Pao Ting Fu, 37; re-
moves to Peking, 60; life in
Peking, 71; touring in style,
76; Christmas in Peking, 79;
tours to Cho Chou, 81; pastorate
in Medina, 88-96; return
China, 97; death of Emily, 117;
opens Shun Yi, 123; studies on
Marco Polo, 140; second fur-
lough, 143; work at Owosso,
143; address at American Board
meeting, 143; farewell at Owosso,
143; receives degree from Ober-
lin, 153; conference of native
churches, 155; reported escape,
184; secures Mongol Fu, 191;
work in siege, 201; messenger
boy, 203; restoration, 205; in-
terprets for Captain Forsythe,
207; bric-a-brac sale, 207; at-
tacked by Clemens in North
American Review, 210; arrest
at Cho Chou, 221; methods re-
garding indemnity, 230; defense
of the people, 239; rescues an
elderly lady, 240; efforts to assist,
241; New Haven church adopts,
250; sympathy with the Chinese,
251; called home to report, 255;
returns to Owosso, 255; address
at New Haven, 257; banquet in
New York, 260; campaigning in
America, 263; returns to China,
268; sunstroke, 282; attends
Viceroy's reception Tientsin,
283; popular lectures in Peking
given, 305; interview Viceroy
Tuan Fang, 307; Committee on
Federation, 311; trip to Shansi,
317; attends Centennial Memo-
rial, 321; presents resolutions,
322; meets Wang Chao, 328; aids
independent church, 329; trans-
lates "Passion Week," 334;
death of his mother, 336-337;
annual meeting, 1908, 340; coun-
try trip, 340; summer training
school, 341; goes to seaside, 342;
attack of disease, 342; Mrs.
Ament arrives, 342; return to
the United States, 344-345;
death at San Francisco, 348;
memorial services, 349-351;
burial at Owosso, 349; memorial
estimates, 352
Ament, Mary Penfield, marriage,
35; illness and return to United
States, 62; home at Peking, 69;
birth of son, 75; home at Medina,
89; birth of William Sheffield,
92; home life in Peking, 103;
hillside home, 114; death of
Emily, 114; life in Owosso, 143;
return to China, 268; interprets
for Mrs. Conger, 276; life at
Oberlin, 310; plans return to
China, 340; arrives at Pei Tai
Ho, 342; returns with invalid
husband, 343; Owosso memorial
service, 349; letters from, coun-
try trip, 271; Pastor Hung, 272;
funeral customs, 273; Mr. Thurs-
ton's illness, 282; letters from her
husband, troubles in Shantung,
168; death of Pastor Chang
Chun Jung, 171; Boxers increase,
180; arrival of Marines, 182;
Nan Meng looted, 183; story of
siege, 184-192; rescue of lega-
tions, 192; entrance to Mongol
Fu, 192; refugee work, 197–198;
march through imperial city, 198;
Boxer atrocities, 199; London
Times story, 204; gathering of
food, 205; reports of Shansi and
Pao Ting Fu massacres, 206; in-
terprets for Captain Forsythe,
207; French and English soldiery,
212; reception at Cho Chou, 212;
confers with agent of Li Hung
Chang, 216; German and French
soldiers, 217; General Chaffee's
reception, 219; trip to Tientsin,
220; Christmas gifts, 312; in-
dependent church, 329; Feder-
ation and Term question, 330;
press in Peking, 330; "Passion
Week," 334
Ament, Margaret, buried at Pao
Ting Fu, 53-54
Ament, Philip Wyett, birth, 75;
illness and death, 76
Ament, Emily Hammond, birth,
86; teaching little girls, 114;
death, 116, 123; character and
influence, memorial school, 119;
story of, 120; visit to grave, 125
Ament, William Sheffield, birth,
92; letters to, 297, 312, 315;
meets his parents at San Fran-
cisco, 348
American Asiatic Association, re-
ception at, 260
Angell, Hon. J. B., Minister to
China, 65; Treaty of 1881, 64–
65
Angell, Mrs., Memorial Training
School, 267, 313
Annual Meeting, North China
Mission, 1905, 303; 1907, 320-
321; 1908, 340
Annual Meeting, American Board,
Hartford, 262
Anser, Roman Catholic Bishop, 166
Cary, Otis, 33, 255.
Centenary Memorial Conference,
321
Chamberlain, correspondent Sun,
228; cable to Sun, 229; cables
plan of ministers, 235
Chang Chih Tung, Viceroy, 160
Chang Hsin Tien, Australian
preacher, 314
Chang Hsi Hsin, translator, III
Chang Yen Mao, Commissioner,
235
Chinese coins, 136
Cho Chou, ancient spiritual inter-
est, 141; silkworm origin, 142;
chapel, 221, 226; official, 226,
249, 250
Christian Endeavor Society, Ament
founder in North China, 291;
elected trustee, 290; Ning Po
Convention, 302; Hubbard,
founder, 353
Church benevolence, 153
Church News, 109; need of, 124;
editorial work, 137
Clark, Rev. Geo. N., letters to,
application for appointment, 32;
arrival in Pao Ting Fu, 39;
famine relief, 43; summer ex-
perience, 45; signs of progress,
49; an official inquirer, 52;
transfer to Peking, 60; Mrs.
Ament returns to United States,
62; Roman Catholics at Hsien
Hsien, 66; reception at Peking,
67; country floods, 78; Cho Chou
as a centre of work, 82; rivers of
Chihli, 86
Clark, F. E., 179–180, 291
Comity and Federation, 311; com-
mittee on, 322-324
Conference, Shanghai, 1890, 105
Conference of powers, 235
Conference of native churches, 155,
303
Confucius, elevation to
honors, 320; school in ancestral
city, 320; Duke, seventy-fifth
generation, 101, 301, 321
Conger, E. H., United
Minister, 169, 185; interview at
Kobe, 253-254; interest in mis-
sion work, 254; reception in
New York, 260
Conger, Mrs. Sarah P., "Letters
from Peking," 275; reception of
princesses, 276, 289
Convocation of workers, 303
Corbin, Rev. P. L., 316-317
Coup d'état, reforms proposed, 149
Cowles, Rev. Henry, 35
Cox, railroad engineer, attack upon,
148
Creegan, Rev. C. C., account of
New York reception, 260; esti-
mate of Shanghai Conference,
325
Criticism of missionaries, 239
Cromer, Rev. J., 26, 144
Cunningham, Rev., regard for
Ament, 346
DARNLEY, JOHN, letters to, 108,
125
Davis, Hon. J. W., Ambassador to
China, 56
Devins, Rev. Dr. J., visit at Peking,
Duncan, Rev. Moir, rescues mis-
sionaries in Shensi, 244; inter-
cedes for Tuan Fang, 244
Dwight Place Church, adopts
Ament as its missionary, 256;
memorial service for Ament, 349,
354
EDWARDS, Dr. J. H., 222
Emperor, French doctor reports
health, 148; Christians pray for,
148
Empress Dowager, audience to
legation ladies, 153; present to
Miss Sheffield, 275
Estimate condition of church, 339
Ewing, Rev. C. E., letter in memory
of Ament, 360-361
FAIRCHILD, REV. J. H., commend-
atory letter, 24
Famine of 1878, 40
Federation conference, 303; news
report of, 331
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