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months he had physically broken down, and was dead in April, 1871. The loss for Chinese Protestants at the time was irreparable, for he was the only ordained Chinese pastor with lengthy experience and a notable record of creative publications in all of China at the time. Details on this event are given in Pfister's "A Transmitter but not a Creator"
94. The fact that Bruce was the younger brother of Sir Elgin, who ordered the burning of the imperial Summer Palace in 1860, is of some importance especially for impressing and reminding the Qing officials at the time of the destructive power of the British and allied forces.
95. See Legge's long letter including copies of the offending note sent by Bruce to Russell and Russell's response in China Mail #955 (June 4, 1863), p. 90. It is quite by coincidence that at the end of the 20th century in Chinese language the date "June Fourth" (liùsì) also immediately brings up images of persecution.
96. Much evidence for this exists in the South China correspondence with the London Missionary Society Directors for this period.
97. A note gleaned from the archives of Carl T. Smith in Hong Kong.
98. See Bóluóxiàn zhì, p. 330, where it simply states, "[We are] lacking any other materials." The total number of Chinese believers associated with the church work initiated by the Basel missionaries was over 300 in 1941.
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months he had physically broken down, and was dead in April, 1871. The loss for Chinese Protestants at the time was irreparable, for he was the only ordained Chinese pastor with lengthy experience and a notable record of creative publications in all of China at the time. Details on this event are given in Pfister's "A Transmitter but not a Creator"
94. The fact that Bruce was the younger brother of Sir Elgin, who ordered the burning of the imperial Summer Palace in 1860, is of some importance especially for impressing and reminding the Qing officials at the time of the destructive power of the British and allied forces.
95. See Legge's long letter including copies of the offending note sent by Bruce to Russell and Russell's response in China Mail #955 (June 4, 1863), p. 90. It is quite by coincidence that at the end of the 20th century in Chinese language the date "June Fourth" (liusi) also immediately brings up images of persecution.
96. Much evidence for this exists in the South China correspondence with the London Missionary Society Directors for this period.
97. A note gleaned from the archives of Carl T. Smith in Hong Kong.
98. See Bóluóxiàn zhì, p. 330, where it simply states, "[We are] lacking any other materials." The total number of Chinese believers associated with the church work initiated by the Basel missionaries was over 300 in 1941.
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