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LIST OF PROTESTANT MISSIONARIES
AT THE SEVERal ports of cHINA, WITH THE NAMES OF THE SOCIETIES TO WHICH THEY BELONG.
Names of the Missionary Societies, and the period when they first sent laborers to the Chinese.
1. The London Missionary Society, 1807.
2. The American Board of Commissioners for For. Mis. 1829. 3. The Rhenish Missionary Society,(Barmen, Prussia,) 1832. 4. The American Baptist Missionary Union, 1834.
5. The Board of the Prot. Episcopal Ch. in the U. S. A. 1935. 6. The Church Missionary Society for Africa and the East.
(England.) 1837.
7. The Board of For. Mis. of the Presb., Ch. in the U. S. A. 1837. 8. The English General Baptist Missionary Society, 1845.
9. The Evangelical Mis. Society of Basle (Switzerland.) 1846. 10. The Board of For. Mis. of the Southern Baptist Convention.
U. S. A. 1845.
11. The Mis. Soc. of the Sabbatarian (Baptist) Ch., U. S. A. 1847. 12. The Mis. Soc. of the Methodist Epis. Ch. in the U. S. A. 1847. 13. The For. Mis. Soc., of the Presbyterian Ch. in Enland, 1847. 14. The Methodist Episcopal Church of the Southern States, 1848. The Netherlands Missionary Society, in 1827, sent out the Rev. Charles Gutzlaff; his connection with it was dissolved in 1835. It has had no other missionary to the Chinese.
“The Medical Missionary Society in China” was established in Feb. 1838. Its sole object has been to afford to medical mission- aries, "hospitals, medicines, and attendants," without "support or remuneration" for their services.
PROTESTANT MISSIONARIES AT PRESENT laboring for the CHINESE, WHEN SENT, AND IN CONNECTION WITH WHAT SOCIETY.
CANTON.
Rev. E. C. Bridgman, D. D. and fam,, 1829 Amer. Board Com. S. W. Williams, and fam.,
Rev. Dyer Ball, M. D. and fam.,
Rev. James G. Bridgman,
Samuel W. Bonney, licentiate,
Rev. And. P. Happer м. D. and fam.,
Rev. John B. French,
Rev. Williamı Speer,
Rev. Issachar J. Roberts,
Rev. Francis C. Johnson,
Benj. Hobson M. D. and fam.,
1833
1838
(Dispensary)
1843
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1844 Amer. Pres. Board.
1846
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1836 Am, Bap. S. Con.
1847
1839 Lond. Mis. Soc.
Rev. John F. Cleland and family,
Rev. William Gillespie, absent
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1846
1844
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Rev. Peter Parker, M. D. Ophthalmic Hospital.
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1839 Lond. Mis. Soc. 1848
Rev. Jas. Legge D. D. and fam.
Rev. B. Key and fam.,
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