"I undertook this work not as one making a literary venture, but as a missionary of the Church doing missionary work. I felt that God had called me to it, and had especially prepared and fitted me for it."
— Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky
Source: Letter quoted in James Arthur Muller, Apostle of China: Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky (1937)
Missionaries, Calling, Preparation
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"Hunter Corbett believed that if Shantung and all China were to be Christianized, it must be the Chinese themselves who, as Spirit-filled agents of the Kingdom, would spread the message and win the people; after fifty-six years in China this conviction remained unshaken. At Chefoo he began training Chinese workers with his very first convert, and when hostile neighbors reduced his first school to a single pupil, he held on. All fourteen churches he organized in Shandong had Christian schools operated in connection with them."
— James R. E. Craighead (biographer)
Source: Hunter Corbett: Fifty-Six Years Missionary in China (New York: Revell, 1921), chs. XII, XV
School, church, ministry, service
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"Mary Ann Aldersey (1797–1868) came from a wealthy nonconformist family in London. She studied Chinese under Robert Morrison in London and paid for other women missionaries to go to Malacca. Never an agent of any missionary society, she went to Asia on her own in 1837 and started a school in Surabaya; after the treaty ports opened in 1843 she moved to Ningbo and opened a school for girls, becoming the first Christian missionary woman to serve in China proper. In 1861 she handed the school over to the Church Missionary Society and retired to South Australia."
— Wikipedia
Source: Wikipedia, "Mary Ann Aldersey"; see also The Spirit of Missions, Sept. 1847 ("an English lady not connected with any society")
Property, salary, eternity
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"Here are four standards for measuring our own morality to keep the commandments of the Bible.
1) Am I honest? Would I lie under any circumstances? Can I keep my promise to tell the truth at any cost? Yes or no? I don't mince words, make excuses, or offer explanations. Yes or no?
2) Am I upright? Can I be absolutely trustworthy with money? Can I do so at work even without supervision? Can I uphold the reputation of others? Yes or no?
3) Am I pure in my own eyes? Or would I make excuses or even protect myself? Are my habits pure? Are my thoughts pure? Are my motives pure? Are my relationships with the opposite sex pure? Yes or no?
4) Am I selfish? Do I make excessive demands on my family, wife, husband, or colleagues? Are my emotions unbalanced? Am I moody, cold one day and warm the next?"
— Eric Liddell
Source: A Manual of Christian Discipleship
Commandments, honesty, integrity, purity, selfishness
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"John Glasgow Kerr arrived in China in 1854 and, as successor to Peter Parker, was in charge of the Ophthalmic Hospital in Canton for 44 years; he is estimated to have treated 780,000 patients and performed 48,000 operations, translated 34 volumes of medical works into Chinese, taught 150 Chinese medical students, and in 1898 founded China's first Refuge for the Insane. Robert E. Speer wrote of him: "Vast as was his distinctly medical work, Dr. Kerr was above all things a missionary. He never lost an opportunity to preach Christ. ... He was a missionary first, and all his medical knowledge was used to commend the Gospel.""
— Gerald H. Anderson, Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity
Source: BDCC, "Kerr, John Glasgow" (reprinted from Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions; quoting Robert E. Speer)
Hospital, soul, duty, sacred way
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"Minnie attempted to lead the students to fulfill the spirit of Ginling's motto, "abundant life," by making them walk out of the "ivory tower" to see and understand the suffering of the poor and by encouraging them to devote their lives for the betterment of the society."
— Hua-ling Hu
Source: Hua-ling Hu, American Goddess at the Rape of Nanking: The Courage of Minnie Vautrin (2000)
School motto: Abundance, Life, Suffering, Poor
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