YATES, Rev. M. T

[s. 814] : Mi ionary of the Southern Baptist Convention, born in Wake County, N. C, January 8, 1819; died in Shanghai, China, 1888. He was born of humble but and pious parents. Their poverty forbade them to give him the education they desired him to have, and for which his own March 18, intelligent yearned. He therefore made his own way through school and college with the a istance of his brethren who at various times soul became interested in his struggles. His remark to his father upon setting out to prepare himself for college has been an inspiration to many lads in the Southern States: “I will go to school if I have to make bricks by moonlight my way.” It was also characteristic to pay of the steady determination and self-reliance of the man. He graduated from Wake Forest College, N. C, in 1846, was appointed a mi ionary August, 1846, married Mi Eliza Moring of Chas am Co., N. C, September 27, 1846, sailed for China April, 1847, and arrived in Shanghai Sept. 13, 1847, shortly after it had been made a treaty port by the treaty of 1846. There in Shanghai — and environs its forty years, in he labored spite of for more than wars, famines, perils, sickne , and YANG-KANG A town in Kwang-tung, China,: cheered manifold trials. Always he was and supported by his devoted wife situated in the northern environs of Swatow, about 10 miles from the city. Station of the (1893), with (1903) 2 mi ionaries and their wives, 2 women mi ionaries, 31 native workers, 20 outstations, 8 places of worship, and 618 profe ed Christians. Some write the and at intervals by other mi ionaries sent out to reenforce him. A part of the time he supported not only himself, but also other mi ionaries by his labor as Vice-Consul and his judicious investments of frugal savings and the small patrimony of his wife. Largely in this way name Ung-kung. 814