Directory_and_Chronicle_1850 — Page 314

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A young Manchú soldier has attracted particular atte stated that it was relief afforded to a friend, and his heario nevolent design of the Hospital that first excited his cur come acquainted with the new religion. The fact of a f ing from afar to heal the sick gratuitously he could no He attended, unobtrusively, the services upon the Sabl ter week, and this first attracted my notice; upon i formed me he was a Manchú, belonging to the garrison Canton. Finding he took more than ordinary inter trines he had heard, he was invited to call at my resi and unrestrained conversation respecting them. Th cheerfully accepted, and has often repeated his visit. books presented him, he read with great interest, and pressed his full conviction of their excellence and truth, cretly, from fear not of the Jews,' but of the Manchú only the living and true God, at the same time express faction with the false religion of his country. He is app and I doubt not sincere in his intellectual belief of the as yet he has not the moral courage to profess it publ The following letter in Manchu, from his wife, w' to believe in the Savior, addressed to Mrs. Parker t and translated by the husband into Chinese, may here probably the first letter ever addı

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