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THE

CHINESE REPOSITORY.

VOL. XIX.-FEBRUARY, 1850.—No. 2.

ART. I. Letter from Rev. B. J. Bettelheim, M. D., giving an account

of his residence and missionary labors in Lewchew during the last three years. (Continued from page 49.)

I BEG you to forgive this digression, and kindly to forbear with me. It may after all be no digression, in view of the missionary interest at large, though no doubt it is so from my report. But I am glad to have thus unintentionally proved that I am able to forget my own trials, whenever an opportunity offers to speak for missions. Tears have often moistened my eyes while writing the above lines, partly sorrow- ing, I hope after a godly manner, for the delinquencies attaching to the church even in her missionary enterprises, and partly moved by hea venly joy, when the whole tenor of the divine scheme of salvation, beaming from the page of Revelation, flashed upon my mind, and told me, "Refrain thy voice from weeping and thine eyes from tears, for there is hope in the end, that thy brethren will come out from their borders, and push their way to the ends of the earth." As for

As for me,

I have not hastened from being a pastor at home to follow after the Lord in a land that is not known, neither have I desired the woful days we pass in Lewchew.

Repeated consideration respecting my duty to God, and examina- tion of his plan of evangelizing the world, have confirmed me in the view that to break up new ground is most consonant with the wide reaching aim of the gospel; and I am thankful to say, that though nearly four years of great hardship have passed over me since I left England, I feel myself like Caleb-that as my strength was then, even

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