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ACTIONS AND REACTIONS

IN CHINA.

VI-MISSIONS-THE REFORMED

CHURCHES.

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[Continued.]

The decline and practical cessation of the missionary work of the Roman Church in China following the suppres sion by the Pops of the Order of Jesuits has been noticed above it was during this period of comparative inaction that the first missionary representative of the Reformed Churches came to China, The story of De Morrison's arrival in China in 1807 and of the difficulties and opposition he encountered is well known, but the causes that led to his mission to China possess an interest of their own, if only as providing a distinct link between the second forward movement of the Roman Church in China, and the inauguration of Protestant Missions, while at the same time it involves three of the great societies of England. The story has been related by Archdeacon Moulo: A Nonconformist Minister, Moseley

found in the British Musoum a Chinese manuscript, unsigned and undated (the authorship of the translation or copy is unknown, and may hayo, been Franciscan of the fourteenth century or Jesuit of the sixteenth), con- taining the Gospels, with a harmony, and the Epistles, not quite complete in Chinese. Moseley at once formed the plan of printing these most precious pages, and distributing them by some means in China. He raised a consider able sum of money for the purpose, and

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the Church Missionary Society, with an earnest request that they would undertake the work. They accepted the responsibility, and in the Report of 1801, appears the item:-China Fund, $3,000. Through strange and unaccount- ahlo recommendations made and obstacles raised, the CM,S. was constrained to abandon the task and offer it to the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge. That Society, too inuch occupied with other work, declined it, end it passed then into the hands of Robert Morrison and the London Mission- ury Society, recently founded and joined of the London Missionary Society to reach at first by Churchren and Dissenters China from the North, starting from Lake alike (The Chinese People, p. 356.)

Baikal and working through the tribes of mere mention must The immediate result of this curious | Mongolia, but a episode linking the early work of the suffice. The defeat of China in the first Roman Catholic Missionaries with the war, and the subsequent opening of tyandation of Protesta Missions in Cunton. Amoy, Feochow, Ningpo, and China was Morrison's translation of the Shanghai by the Treaty of Nanking made Bible and his compilation of the famous possible some development and extension dictionary that goes by his name.

There of the work of the missionaries of the as no need to recount the difficulties under Reformed Churches, but it was not until

tion clauses that a real forward move ment took place.

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French) established a general right of travel under passport, the nott ́result of the Russian toleration clapso would have beed, by its limitation of number, to subject missionaries to restriction that did not apply to merchants and tourists. Northeless, the Chinese pleni- porotiaries objected to the reproduction of the Russian toleration clues in the THE P. & O. & N. Co.'s Steiner United States Treaty, on the ground the the American missionaries had their wives and families with them, and must there- fore be confined to the open ports. How-

ever, when Dr. Williams' clause was presented again with verbal alterations, the Chiuso commissioners accepted it, and, according to him, an abridged version was then included in the British Treaty. (Life und Letters of Dr. S. Wells Williams, pp. 270-971.)

RON, Steel, Wotal and Hardware Mer which he laboured of the obstacles- the Treaties of Tientsin with the tolera-

chants, Wholesale and Retail Iron-greater even than those experienced by mongers, Pig Iron and Foundry Coke Xavier end Ricci-taat he encountered Importers, General Storekeepers and Ship- chandlers. Nos. 35 and 37, HING Loona (il may be mentioned that when his first The persecuting Edicts of 1724 and 1744, STREET (2nd St. West of Central Market).

translation was printed, the risk was so

to which reference has already been made, Telephone No. 515.

great that the printer pasted a false label constituted a great obstacle to the efforts on the cover for fear of detection and of missionaries at first, for, even if not punishment): he was enabled to establish always enforced, they were always ready himself in Canton under the aegis of the as an argument in reserve.

As it was on this clause that for many East India Company, which he served in opening of the five ports to foreign

loosly attached way as interpreter, and residence, it became impossible for China Sears the whole of the missionary work which undertook

the printing and to forbid missionaries residing and pro- in the interior depended, it is suficiently publication of his dictionary.

He also pagating their doctrine in those places,important to quote at length:- founded an Anglo-Chinese College at especially as the United States Treaty of Malacca, but les position under the East India Company proved rather a hind rance than a lip to him in his missionary capacity. Not only did the Company's purposes. The natural corollary to this rules against attempting the conversion

was the cession of the right, under the

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Hongkong, 5th April, 1914.

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the Chinese-to place obstacles in the way present toleration went no further than of missionary work in Canton, and it was largely due to the influence of his fath this tacit admission of the right of in-law, & prominent British merchant foreigners to their own mode of worship. An Edict of 1846 rescinding the persecut- thore, that Morrison was able to hold on, ing Edicts of Yung-cheng and Ch'ion-lu

Commenting twenty years later on, this It was rather by preparing the way, by

was the next step; toleration was further achievement of his, Dr. Williams candidly his translations and studies, for later developed by the Treaty of Kuldja (1851) admitted that "It must be said, more- comers, that Morrison played his part in already referred to, which formally over, that if the Chinese had at all com connection with China, but one of the few recognized the right of foreigners to prehended what was involved in these Chinese with whom he came into close celebrate diving service according to the four toleration articles, they would never contact and on whom he exercised a grout rits of their own religion"; but it was have signed one of them.” He refers. influence had a not unimportant share in

not until 1858. that the right of probably, to the wholesale invasion of launching the great catnolyem that nearly-

missionaries to conduct propagandist the country by missionaries that bast overwhelmed China in the middle of the work among the Chinese was definitely followed the Treaties, but if the American clause is read de pied de la lettre, its established by Treaty, Morrison's assistant and constant com All the Treaties of 1858 and the follow possibilities are still more far-reaching, panion, that Hung Hsiu-ch'üan received the tracts that later set his mind at working years contain a toleration clause in The last sentence, "Any person

shall peaceably teach and American Treaty that it takes its fullest practise the principles of Christianity, form. The responsibility for this clame shall in no case be interfered with or a Protestant translation of the Bible into rests in the main with Dr... S. Wellsniolested," is susceptible of interprotation the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godowy date they cannot be recognized,

Williae, who was interpreter to in such a way that it could be made to United States Mission, but he himself justify the most extreme interference by ascribes the credit of inauguration to the missionaries in judicial affairs, and

(Continued on page 6.)

last century-it was frem Leang Ah-fah

and brought oa the Taip'ing rebellion.

Although Morrison was the first Pri- testant Missionary to set foot in China

some shape or other, but it is in the

Chinese had been begun prior to his arrival-that of Marshman of Serampore, who had the advantage of the assistate of Lassar, an Armenian born at Mace Russian Minister. and conversaat with Chinese from his youth. In later years Morrison was assisted in his translation work by Milne, who came out in 1813, but was not allowed to reside at Canton. A history of missions would demand some notice of the careers of his successors of those early days-Gutzlaff, Medhurst, Parker, Wil liams, and others as well as of the effort

Russia hud, as we

who

Oh I say!

have seen, already secured certain speciál privileges for her subjects and for the

"MONTSERRAT Lime Juice Greek Church; the toleration clause in her Tientsin Treaty (Anticle VIII) provided is the only drink that matters during the hot that a limited number of missionaries, weather. Order a bottle To-day from yous furnished with passports, signed by the

Storekeeper-say Russian authorities, should be permitted to travel from the open ports and towns, but as other Treaties (the British and the'

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the exception be left in the Godowns, where they will be of Opium, Transure and Valuables are being lauded and stored at their risks into the examined on MoSDAY, 20th inet, at-10 ABS. hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of

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All Claims must to presented within FirczRN DAYS of the Steamer's arrival here, after which No Claims will be admitted after the Goods obtained immediately after landing. have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining Co., Ltd, at Kowloon, whence delivery may Optional Cargo will be forwarded on un before Noon To-sar requesting it to be

it to be laadad intimation is received from the Consignees undelivered after the 20th inat will be subject

the Bills sof Lading will be countersigned by Undersigned. Goods remaining saelsimed after the 16th inst at Noor will be subject to rent and landing charges.

All Claims must be sent in to me on or before the 19th inst. at Noox or they will not be recognized.

here.

All damaged packages will be examined on the 15th-iast, at 10 AM.

Nu Fire Inearance has been Eected,

8. C. de BUSSIERRE,

Asting Agent. Hongkong, 10th April 1914..

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No Fire Insurance has been effected, Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

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