This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ...poet, who here wrote the " Lusiad." We also called on the McClo.-s, missionaries of the Southern Board. Dr. Morrison, his wife Mary, and his son J. R. all sleep in plain stone sarcophagi in one corner of a very prettily kept cemetery. It was an impressive thing to stand there for a few moments. What ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ...poet, who here wrote the " Lusiad." We also called on the McClo.-s, missionaries of the Southern Board. Dr. Morrison, his wife Mary, and his son J. R. all sleep in plain stone sarcophagi in one corner of a very prettily kept cemetery. It was an impressive thing to stand there for a few moments. What Carey was to India, Morrison was to China. It is eightytwo years since he landed in China. He translated the Scriptures and compiled a Chinese dictionary, and for twenty-seven years pioneered everything good for China. He won perhaps a dozen converts, yet in the main he died without the sight for which his lofty spirit yearned. We trod reverently the ground about that tomb in the southeast corner of the walled cemetery. We plucked a leaf from the tree which droops over the square stone sarcophagus which contains the dust of one of the greatest of earth's victors, and breathed a deeper prayer for China's millions. The city is very picturesquely situated on hills, and many are the buildings which present a striking semi-European appearance. There is a fine old ruin of a cathedral long since burned. The place is largely Catholic, of course, there being some 7,000 Portuguese living here. The blight on the place, however, is in the fact that it is the great gambling-place of the whole region, --the Baden-Baden of China, ---people coming to it from Hongkong and elsewhere, both men and women, Europeans as well as natives, and spending Sundays gambling with desperation. CHAPTER XII. medical!Tission-lllork in Qlyina. Gbq Qlaim made for It. S this a properly distinctive undertaking for Christian missions to engage in? Should we so highly regard the body and the treatment of its maladies? Can a mission force afford to become a...
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Good. No Jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7¾-9¾Tall; Type: Book This book depicts the tour which began in August, 1890 and completed in April 1891: traversing the countries of Japan, China, Malaysia, Burma, Assam and India. Briefly touching Egypt, Palastine, Ialy, France and England. Over 200 missionaries were visited. Gold cloth covers with gilt title and sunrise decoration and black flower arrangement and spine. Foxed edge pages. Date stamp on rear inside cover. Light edgewear and cover is lightly soiled. Owner's inscription on front end page. Clean and tight pages, no markings in the book. Illustrated. Libary stamp on rear end page. 175 pages.
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