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for the exercise of their strongest faith and their best action; claims which will not soon be cancelled, and which, we fear, will not be soon acknowledged. Unheeded now, they certainly are in a great degree by all, wholly by not a few. But the dawn of better days has appeared. Since the opening of the port in 1842, Christian missions have been established here, by missionaries from the London and Church missionary Societies-from the Episcopal Church in the United States and also from two of the Baptist Boards in the same country. A large mission likewise from the Romish Church has its head quarters in Shanghái.

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