"Young John Allen (1836–1907) arrived in Shanghai in 1860 and served in China for forty-seven years. In 1868 he founded the Church News (Jiaohui Xinbao), renamed the Globe Magazine (Wanguo Gongbao) in 1874; in 1881 he founded the Anglo-Chinese College in Shanghai, later merged into Soochow University. Advocating "using learning to support the faith," he was at once missionary, educator, translator and newspaper editor."
— Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity (BDCC)
Source: "Lin Lezhi (Young John Allen)," Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity (bdcconline.net)
Politics, law, scholarship, skills, human nature, civilization
Views: 388
"I have spent this evening in looking at my past life and conversation, and in prayer to God for pardon and grace to help. My past life appears more sinful than it has ever done. My conduct as a Christian, indeed, in many things has been inconsistent. … I have laid my case before God, and asked him to humble me. … Sin has been mingled even in my devotions. Yet I am not without hope, because there is One whose righteousness is all-perfect, whose intercessions are all-prevalent."
— Calvin Wilson Mateer
Source: Mateer's college journal, quoted in Daniel W. Fisher, Calvin Wilson Mateer: Forty-five Years a Missionary in Shantung, China (1911), pp. 95–96
holiness, criticism, pride, piety
Views: 356
"There has been no call from the clouds, but the facts of my life and the result of study inspired by, and carried on under God have been a sure and certain call to His work in the waste places."
— Horace Tracy Pitkin
Source: Pitkin's statement to the American Board, in Robert E. Speer, A Memorial of Horace Tracy Pitkin (1903), p. 134
"John Fryer (1839–1928) came to China in 1861 under the Church of England and from 1868 spent twenty-eight years translating at the Jiangnan Arsenal, orally translating more than a hundred scientific works and founding the science journal Gezhi Huibian (The Chinese Scientific Magazine). In 1896 he became professor of Oriental languages and literature at the University of California, Berkeley, yet China remained on his heart: in 1911 he gave 60,000 taels of silver to found the Shanghai school for blind children, and had his younger son George B. Fryer train in the education of the blind and go to China as its principal. In 1915 he told Huang Yanpei: "For decades my living came entirely from the Chinese people; I must find a way to repay them.""
— Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity (BDCC)
Source: BDCC, "Fryer, John," bdcconline.net
selfishness, world, charity, service
Views: 341
"Rudolf Lechler reached Hong Kong in March 1847 with Theodore Hamberg, the first two missionaries the Basel Mission sent to China. He began among the Teochew people, going inland three times between 1848 and 1852 and being forced out by official pressure each time; he then turned to the Hakka and translated the Gospels of Matthew and Luke into their dialect. In 1899, after a fifty-two-year career in China, he and his wife retired to Germany, where he died in 1908. His legacy was the Hakka Christian church."
— Jessie G. Lutz
Source: "The Legacy of Rudolf Christian Friedrich Lechler," International Bulletin of Missionary Research, January 2007
Grace, Church, Thanksgiving
Views: 384
"We are often asked, "If we join your church must we have some one to act as surety?" and the direct answer includes the great fundamental principles of salvation. That Christ would stand as bondsman for a stranger or for a sinner fills them with surprise."
— Hampden Coit DuBose
Source: Preaching in Sinim; or, The Gospel to the Gentiles (1893), ch. "Preaching Christ"