This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II THE BEGINNINGS AT SHANGHAI During the last year of his residence in the Orient Dr. Boone had continually flung back to the Church the question: "When shall I welcome my coadjutors?" He saw that until there were more men in the field little could be looked for. More significant than this, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II THE BEGINNINGS AT SHANGHAI During the last year of his residence in the Orient Dr. Boone had continually flung back to the Church the question: "When shall I welcome my coadjutors?" He saw that until there were more men in the field little could be looked for. More significant than this, before Boone had gone out Lockwood had appealed for a Bishop, asserting that nothing permanent could be done till the mission had a head. As we now come to the events which followed upon Dr. Boone's return to America, we shall see how both of these demands were met. And more, as we read of what follows, we shall perhaps be set to wondering whether or not the failure of the first attempt to establish work in China was not due to the fact that the Church did not begin in a large enough way. Little ventured, little gained. The Church had been very timid. Sometimes it is better to do nothing than to do too little. And yet it is not fair for us to find fault with our predecessors. God knows they did as much in proportion to their means as we do in proportion to ours. Boone's Triumphal Tour. Boone arrived in America some months before the General Convention which was to meet in Philadelphia in 1844. He had travelled about the States considerably, and wherever he went received enthusiastic welcomes. Now this place would subscribe $100, now that $200; now this man would enquire as to the possibility of his going back with Boone, and now that woman would take up the matter. He wrote to the Foreign Committee in August, 1844: "I have great cause for gratitude to God for the interest manifested in the Mission to China at that place [Beaufort, South Carolina], and indeed at every place visited during the tour from which I have just returned. "The good...
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