"I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that other country and to help others to do the same."
— C.S. Lewis
Source: Mere Christianity, Book III, ch. 10 "Hope"
Soul, body, satisfaction
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"Dr. James Laidlaw Maxwell (1836–1921) landed at Takao on May 28, 1865, and on June 16 rented a house on Kanxi Street in Taiwan-fu (Tainan), where he preached and practised medicine. Within a month, opposition from local Chinese physicians and a rumour that he took people's hearts and eyes to make medicine sparked a riot, and he was forced to leave. He moved to Qihou, under the protection of the British consulate, opened a chapel there on July 16, and continued his medical work. Both his sons later became doctors and carried on the missionary work."
— Wikipedia
Source: "James Laidlaw Maxwell," Chinese Wikipedia
Soul, body, pain, healing
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"Issachar J. Roberts (1802–1871) was an American Baptist missionary. In 1847 Hong Xiuquan studied with him in Canton for about two months and asked for baptism, but Roberts did not baptize him. In 1860 Roberts went to the Taiping capital at Nanjing and was dismayed to find that the Taiping beliefs departed widely from his own Christianity; he broke with Hong's court and left in January 1862, and thereafter was fiercely critical of the Taiping."
— Wikipedia
Source: Wikipedia, "Issachar Jacox Roberts"
Soul, vice, lamp, darkness, true light
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"But alas! if there were highways opened through every part of the empire, there are none "shod with the preparation of the Gospel of peace" to travel them. The few missionaries whom all Christendom have made out to send to China, are by no means equal to the duties of their own stations. Those who have not been toiling for years at the language, are not qualified for such an undertaking; and the Christian world appear still to slumber over the claims and calls of these perishing millions."
— David Abeel
Source: Journal of a Residence in China and the Neighboring Countries, from 1829 to 1833 (New York, 1834), p. 141
Soul, Destruction, Transmission
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"The German Jesuit Johann Schreck (Terrentius, 1576–1630), a physician, naturalist and mathematician, was elected to the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome in 1611, shortly after Galileo, and entered the Society of Jesus the same year. He reached Macau in 1619 and later, while staying in the home of Li Zhizao in Hangzhou, prepared the two-volume Taixi renshen shuogai (An Outline of the Western Theory of the Human Body), describing the skeletal, muscular, circulatory, nervous and sensory systems: the first book in China to introduce Western physiology and anatomy. It was edited and prefaced by Bi Gongchen and printed only in 1634. In his last years he worked on the reform of the calendar, and he died in Beijing in 1630."
— Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity (BDCC)
Source: BDCC, "Schreck, Johann" (bdcconline.net); Wikipedia, "Johann Schreck"
Soul, good deeds, truth, Creator
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"My darling, do you know, for these ten years past there has not been even a cloud between my soul and my Savior? How could I be sad to go to Him? I am only sad to leave you alone at this time..."
— Maria Jane Dyer Taylor
Source: Record of Maria's conversation with Hudson Taylor before her death, July 23, 1870
Soul, Savior, Sadness
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