China : its spiritual need and claims : with brief notices of missionary effort, past and present / by J. Hudson Taylor.

  • Hudson Taylor
Date:
1868
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Credit: China : its spiritual need and claims : with brief notices of missionary effort, past and present / by J. Hudson Taylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and some who were invalided have returned to their former spheres of labour. But against these has to be set the number of those who have since died in the field, or who ha^e been obliged to retire temporarily or permanently from it. Perhaps we shall not be far wrong in estimating the number of male Protestant labourers at 120. Most of these are married, and there are also a few single ladies engaged in mis- sionary work in China. So that, including these, the total number may, perhaps, be brought up to 240 or 250 persons. But, as might be expected, the wives of most Missionaries are necessarily occupied with domestic duties, which leave them little time for the requisite preliminary studies, or for actual missionary work. There are no means of ascertain- ing the number of ladies, who are able to give any considerable portion of their time to aggressive efforts for the good of their own sex ; and, there- fore, in the following pages we have confined our remarks to the number of male Missionaries. Perhaps, even more important than the increase in the number of Missionaries, is the fact, that several of them are located in important parts of the Empire, which but a short time ago wrere in unbroken dark- ness. In Manchuria, the Pev. W. C. Burns* is at present labouring at Niu-chwang, the newly-opened port of Shing-king ; and the Pev. Mr. Williamson, [* This devoted servantof God was taken to his rest April 4th, 1868.]
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