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Church missions

and Chaplains in the Empire

of

China. It turned out that the Queen had

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power to grant

such actters Patent. They

cherefore withdrawn after the

nativer

resignat

In

of

the Second Bishop,

apprinting the thirds Bishop, the original object of the Bishoprie was kept in view- namely the development of

Church missions. among the Chinese. China was then divided into two Episo Missionary District, and that. In attached to ston grising was limited to the Missions South of the Chekiang Province. I was appointed to this on account of certain

qualifications that

I was believed to pozzers as a Chinese Missionary of twenty years' standing. I was consecrated by mandate

of

the Queen and sent

the

out to Hongkong in 1874, without

illegal Letters Patent, by the Ecclesiastical Authorities.

of

England. I have occupied here the exact position, Ecclesiastically,

that my predecessors occupied,

and have as ninch or as little,

over the Clergy

as they

authority had. But the Local Government

considered that the previous

Ordinance

of

with

e to

reference

the Bishop in the

the status

Cathedral was

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void, and they did not think it needful to acknowledge the new hishop in any

other av

I think this was a mistake. It seemed tome to cast a slight on the office of a Bishop, and

4,

it

gave the impression to many that, not having Letters Part- I was

noha Bishop at all

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