"John Robert Morrison (1814–1843), son of Robert Morrison, the first Protestant missionary to China, was born in Macau, learned Chinese from his father and studied at the Anglo-Chinese College in Malacca (1827–1830). After his father's death in 1834 he succeeded him as Chinese Secretary and Interpreter to the British Superintendents of Trade. Apart from his official duties, he continued his father's work with the English Protestant church in Canton, supported Chinese converts persecuted by the authorities, revised his father's Bible translation, and in 1840 joined Medhurst, Gützlaff and Bridgman in translating the Bible into Chinese. He died of fever in Hong Kong in 1843, aged 29."
— Wikipedia
Source: Wikipedia, "John Robert Morrison" (citing the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography et al.)
China, contempt, pity, toil
Views: 484
"Patience is requisite, in an eminent degree, in missionary exertions; the ground is fallow. I can cast in but here and there a handful of seed. It is not unlike the clearing of land now covered with immense forests. Old and deep-rooted prejudices are to be cut down, and dug up; many noxious weeds to be burned, to make room for casting in the seed. I know that this is not to be effected but by the arm of Jehovah."
— Robert Morrison
Source: Memoirs of the Life and Labours of Robert Morrison (1839), vol. 1, letter of April 3, 1808
china, mission, gospel
Views: 465
"What shall we do? For us, the matter is already settled: We will never give up the mission in China. You cannot starve us out."
— Young J. Allen
Source: The Writings of Young J. Allen
China, Missions
Views: 26
"The task is so great and the strength we can contribute so small, we have no time to quarrel with one another along the way, longing only that the millions of China would come under the influence of Christ."