"Surely if anything is to be learned from the teachings of history, if the saying of Tertullian that the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church is a law of unwasting and perennial energy, and if the promises of God are still secure, a religion which has done so much for China, and the heralds of which have suffered so much from the Chinese, has a great work yet to do in the regeneration of that Empire."
— Arthur Henderson Smith
Source: China in Convulsion (1901), Vol. II, ch. XXXII "Foreigners in the Interior"
mission, faith, truth
Views: 401
"In his last years Francis Huberty James taught at the Imperial University in Peking; on 14 December 1898 he read a paper on Chinese Literature before the Royal Asiatic Society, arguing that it was "deserving of study" and that "when it is better known it will be more highly esteemed." On the afternoon of 20 June 1900, as the Boxers besieged the legations, he was shot dead crossing the bridge on his way back from the palace of a Mongol prince across the canal. W. A. P. Martin recorded that he and Dr. Morrison of the Times had there made arrangements for the shelter of native Christians: "He, too, sacrificed his life in a noble cause.""
— W. A. P. Martin; F. Huberty James
Source: W. A. P. Martin, The Siege in Peking (1900), pp. 81-82; F. Huberty James, Chinese Literature (Shanghai)
Faith, science, nature, law, wisdom, investigation of things
Views: 394
"David Adeney (1911-1994), a British missionary, went to China with the China Inland Mission in 1934 and planted churches in rural central China; in 1938 he married fellow CIM missionary Ruth Temple. He later became associate general secretary of the China InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, and from 1956 served as IFES associate general secretary for the Far East; in 1968 he founded the Discipleship Training Centre in Singapore to train university graduates. He died in Berkeley, California, in 1994."
— Wikipedia
Source: Wikipedia, "David Howard Adeney"; Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity
Missions, Disciples, Fellowship
Views: 383
"Nor need our claim in the presence of God be any less simple. When we once have the deep, calm assurance of His will in the matter, we put in our claim, just as a child before his father. A simple request and nothing more. No cringing, no beseeching, no tears, no wrestling."
— James Outram Fraser
Source: The Prayer of Faith (booklet)
Prayer, privilege, Kingdom of Heaven, Father, thanksgiving
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"Frederick William Baller (1852–1922) became a Christian at seventeen and sailed to China with the China Inland Mission in 1873, learning Chinese in Nanjing just after the Taiping occupation had ended. From 1896 he headed the mission's training home for men at Anqing, helping to train new missionaries in the language; from 1900 to 1918 he served on the committee revising the Mandarin Bible that became the Chinese Union Version. He died in Shanghai, where he was buried, after completing his biography of Hudson Taylor."
— Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity (BDCC)
Source: BDCC, "Baller, Frederick William" by Ralph R. Covell, bdcconline.net
Prayer, Holy Spirit, strength, plan
Views: 364
"Carl Frederick Kupfer (1852–1925) was born in Germany and emigrated to the United States with his parents as a child. In 1881 the Methodist Episcopal Church sent him to Jiujiang (Kiukiang), Jiangxi, as principal of its school there, and he later also preached in Zhenjiang and Nanjing. When the school was renamed William Nast College in 1901, he again became its president. He died in a Hankou hospital in 1925 and was buried in Jiujiang."
— Wikipedia (Chinese), "Carl Frederick Kupfer"
Source: zh.wikipedia.org, "库思非" (citing Who's Who in American Methodism, 1916, et al.)