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LIST OF PROTESTANT MISSIONARIES

IN CHINA, WITH THE NAMES OF THE SOCIETIES TO WHICH THEY BELONG.

Numes 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. 1929. 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. 1835. 6. The Church Missionary Society (England), 1837.

7. The Board of For. Mis. of the Presby. 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 B ptist Convention,

U. S. A. 1846.

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 England, 1847. 14. The Methodist Episcopal Church of the Southern States, 1848, 15. The Swedish Missionary Society, 1849.

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The Netherlands Missionary Society sent out the Rev. Charles Gutzlaff in 1827; his connection with it was dissolved in 1835. has had no other missionary to the Chinese.

The Medical Missionary Society in China was established in Feb. 1833. Its sole object has been to afford medical missionaries “hos- pitals, medicines, and attendants," without " support or remunera- tion" for their services.

PROTESTANT MISSIONARIES AT PRESENT LABORING FOR THE CHINESE

WHEN SENT, AND IN CONNECTION WITH WHAT SOCIETY.

CANTON.

E. C. Bridgman, D D. and fam., Shang. 1829 Amer. Board Com. S. W. Williams, and fam.,

Rev. Dyer Ball, M. D. and fam.,

Rev. James G. Bridgman,

Samuel W. Bonney, licentiate,

1833

1838

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(Printer) (Dispensary)

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Rev. Peter Parker, M. D.

Benjamin Hobson м. в. and fam.,.

Rev. Andrew P. Happer M. D. and fam., Rev. John B. French,

Rev. William Speer, absent

Rev. Issachar J. Roberts, and fam.,

Miss Baker.

Rev. Wm. C. Burns,

1834 Ophthalmic Hospital: 1839 Lond. Mis. Soc.

1844

1846 Amer. Pres. Board. 1846

1836 Am. Bap. S. Con, 1850

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1847 Soc. of Pres. Ch. E.