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Title: Reports of the missionary and benevolent boards and committees to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Home Missions. Annual report of the Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions. Annual report of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Education. Annual report of the Board of Education of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication and Sabbath-School Work. Annual report of the Board of Publication and Sabbath-School Work of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of the Church Erection Fund. Annual report of the Board of the Church Erection Fund of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Presbyterian Board of Relief for Disabled Ministers and the Widows and Orphans of Deceased Ministers. Annual report to the General Assembly Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Missions for Freedmen. Annual report of the Board of Missions for Freedmen of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Aid for Colleges and Academies. Annual report of the Board of Aid for Colleges and Academies of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Special Committee on Systematic Beneficence. Report of the General Assembly's Special Committee of the Presbyterian Church on Systematic Beneficence Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Permanent Committee on Temperance. Annual report of the General Assembly's Permanent Committee on Temperence for the year ending ..
Subjects: Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A
Publisher: Philadelphia : Presbyterian Board of Publication
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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g into public office of Christian men; men who are notashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The pastor of theSecond Church went back to Lien-chow to assist his countryin putting down the robbers of those mountain fastnesses. Inthe very Yamen where several years ago he was beaten hecame into office. Another man who was the Chinese dean ofthe Fati Theological College became one of the advisers of thenew government in the Province of Kwangtung. A formerpreacher of Tai Leung became the District Governor of ShunTak. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the sameprovince is the son of a Christian minister in Montreal. Theseare all Presbyterians, and the list does not include all that werecalled to office, nor does it include the students from our schoolswho served as public orators or that entered some of the loweroffices, nor those who became soldiers. It is said 65 per cent,of the new officials are Christian men serving in Canton, be-cause they are considered men that can be trusted.
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Kochau, Canton, China.—Two colporteurs, selling and explaining Scriptures.— At times these men work in groups, again singly or in pairs. They aim to reacha market town on market days so as to catch the crowds, then visit the shops,one by one, on an off day, when the shopmen are more at leisure. Much of thepioneer work in outlying districts has been done by these men. SOUTH CHINA—CANTON 85 CANTON STATION EVANGELISTIC WORK.— This work in the station was largely carried on during the year byDr. A. A. Fulton, Rev. A. J. Fisher and Rev. W. D. Noyes. Theyreport that the Revolution did not do as much harm as HalleysComet and the openness of mind on the part of the Chinese was un-usual. Each made the ordinary trip as usual, with perhaps a fewpostponements. People flocked to the places of service and openingsfor the establishment of new places were more than the missionarieswith their limited funds could enter, though thanks to a part of theKennedy Fund several new chapels and churches

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