"The electric fluid pervades all nature; but was it not in Christendom that it came forth like the flames of Pentecost to create a new era and to supply a new source of light and power? Its energy is no longer restricted to the land of its birth, nor is the renovating power of the Holy Spirit, which in due time may be expected to put new life into the dry bones of the old systems of China."
— W. A. P. Martin
Source: A Cycle of Cathay (1896), Part II, ch. V "Pilgrimage to the Tomb of Confucius"
Darkness, Science, Law, Nation, Truth
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"The secret of the success of the Apostles lay not in what they did and said, but in the presence of Christ in them and with them. … Brethren, this is what we must be, if this mighty Empire is to be moved through us. But to be this the throne of grace must be our refuge — the secret place of the Most High must be our daily and hourly habitation. We must take time to become filled with His power; we must take time to be holy."
— Griffith John
Source: "The Holy Spirit in Connection with Mission Work", Shanghai Missionary Conference, 1877; in R. Wardlaw Thompson, Griffith John: The Story of Fifty Years in China (1906), pp. 326–327
Prayer, mission, action, hypocrisy
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"Daniel Jerome Macgowan (1814–1893), a medical missionary sent to China by the American Baptists, reached Ningbo in 1843 and opened a dispensary that November, practising medicine while often preaching to the Chinese. In Ningbo he wrote the Bowu Tongshu (1851), a treatise on the solar eclipse (1852) and a manual of navigation (1853), and in 1854 founded the Zhongwai Xinbao newspaper. He died in Shanghai in 1893; The New York Times called him one of the oldest residents of Shanghai."
— Wikipedia
Source: "Daniel Jerome Macgowan," Chinese Wikipedia (citing Wylie, Memorials of Protestant Missionaries to the Chinese)
Creation, all things, investigation of things
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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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"The greatest curse of this boat population is opium. To see how it is ruining the country is a most sad and sickening sight. If the Christian people of England did but know it, could but see what we see, they would to a man lift up their voice against it. Young men of between twenty and thirty completely enslaved by it, their will powerless to break it off, the conscience of its wrong settling them in dead despair. ... God only knows the evil this cursed traffic is working in this poor country."
— David Hill
Source: Letter to his father, April 25, 1875; in W. T. A. Barber, David Hill, Missionary and Saint, 3rd ed. (1899), p. 138