The Missionaries Anglo Chinese Diary 1920 Classic Reprint

Author : American Presbyterian Mission
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333979775
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal, Vol. 17 written by American Presbyterian Mission and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal, Vol. 17: January, 1886 The famine relief presented us in a new and favorable light, and gave a fresh impulse to our work of evangelization. The establishment of stations may be said to have fairly begun after the famine, though a Spirit of enquiry had been awakened before. In the spring of 1879, Mr. Corbett again visited this region, and from this time took part in mission work there. There are now in the department of Ching-chow fu connected with the English Baptist mission, and with Mr. Corbett and myself about one hundred and fifty stations, and near converts, about of them belonging to the Baptist Mission. On the main points of mission policy we are happily nearly of one mind. All these stations provide their own houses of worship; none of them are cared for by a resident paid preacher; but in each of them is one or more of its own members who voluntarily conducts services on Sunday and attends to the general spiritual interests of the little company of believers with whom he is connected, under the super intendence of the foreign missionary in charge. In all these stations great prominence is given to catechetical teaching, and also to affording special instruction to the leaders, with the view of their teaching others. These form the distinguishing features Of our work 3 and are our main points of agreement. The Baptist stations have multiplied chie y through the volan tary labours of unpaid Christians; and radiate from the centre at Ch'ing-chow fu. Their staff of Chinese labourers now consists of a Native Pastor who is a Nanking man and was baptized more than twenty years ago, and four evangelists paid by the mission; and two elders paid by the native Christians. My work spread from the centre at Kao-yai, almost entirely so far as natives are concerned, through the voluntary labours of the Chinese Christians. My staff of paid labourers at present consists of two native helpers, supported hitherto partly by the natives and partly by myself. I have from the first used a few others occasionally. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."