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Title: Calvin Wilson Mateer, forty-five years a missionary in Shantung, China; a biography
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Fisher, Daniel Webster, 1838-1913
Subjects: Mateer, Calvin Wilson, 1836-1908
Publisher: Philadelphia, The Westminster press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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translation of the New Testament, andthe influence of their work, as of Dr. Mateers, abides,and wdll continue to be felt, till the great work ofrendering the Bible into a universal Mandarin isfinished. Dr. Mateer himself, in the preface to his MandarinLessons, makes acknowledgment of the valuableservices rendered in the preparation of that work byTsou Li Wen, and also by his own wife. The Mandarin Committee, at the meeting in 1891,after organization, proceeded to divide up the booksof the New Testament among themselves for work,and adopted a plan of procedure. Each man wasfirst carefully to revise or translate his own portion;and then to send it around to the others, who were togo over it, and write their suggestions of emendations,each in a column parallel to the proposed text. Next,the original translator was to take these emendations,and with their help was to prepare a text in Mandarinfor submission to the entire committee. Broadlyspeaking, this was the method pursued to the end,
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I THE MANDARIN VERSION 261 though with some modifications compelled or sug-gested by experience. It was hoped that compara-tively rapid progress would be made; but in reahtythe committee did not come together again untilSeptember, 1898; and even then, only the Acts ofthe Apostles was ready for general revision. For thisdelay there were various causes, such as the deathof Dr. Nevius and the resignation of others, and theabsence of Dr. Mateer on furlough home; but thechief cause was that every member was burdened withso much other work that only a fraction of his timecould be given to this duty. Dr. Mateer, for example,found himself loaded down with other hterary andmissionary labors. At the meeting held at Tengchow,in 1898, he was elected chairman of the committee.This was an honor, but it also carried with it peculiarduties which materially added to his burden. Thecommittee could muster only five members for thatsitting, but they proceeded with their work, and atthe end of two months

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