Identifier: chineseempiregen1907broo (find matches)
Title: The Chinese empire: a general & missionary survey ..
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Broomhall, Marshall, 1866- ed
Subjects: Missions
Publisher: London, Morgan & Scott Philadelphia, China inland mission (etc., pref
Contributing Library: School of Theology, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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the Chinese translation of the French Treaty gavespecial permission to French missionaries to rent andpurchase land in the provinces and to erect buildings thereonat pleasure. Although the French text, which was thefinal authority, did not contain this clause—it having beensurreptitiously inserted by one of the French priests intothe Chinese text, an action not unnaturally severely criti-cised— the Chinese never raised any serious objection andwere guided by their own translation. Period of Penetration, 1860-1877 To follow in detail the development of Missions throughthe succeeding years is increasingly difficult, and naturallyquite impossible within the limits of a brief introduction.The Treaty of Tientsin was recognised as a loud call to theChurches at home to do more for the evangelisation ofChina. During the lull between the signing of the Treaty Nanking being in the hands of the Taipings when the British Treatywas drawn up, the British Treaty does not name the Yangtse ports.
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1. Rev. Josiah Cox.4. Rev. Wm. Burns.7. Rev. Geo. Pieucy. GROUP III. 2. Rev. Wm. Muikhead. .^). Rev. J. GiLMOUR. 8. Rev. Roderick Macdoxald, M.D. For short Bioyraphical ovflines, seepuyes 439-40. 3. Mu. A. WvLiE. t). Rev. David Hill. 9. Rev. Joseph Edkins, D.D. To face page 21. INTRODUCTION 21 at Tientsin in 1858 and its ratification at Peking in 1860,the British squadron proceeded up the river Yangtse, andDr. Muirhead of the L.M.S. was allowed as a special favourto accompany the expedition. In consequence of hisreport, Griffith John and R. Wilson were designated toHankow by the L.M.S., which important city they reached in1861, soon after it had been opened as one of the new ports. In 1862 Josiah Cox, of the Wesleyan Missionary Society,reached the same strategic centre, being joined shortlyafterwards by Dr. Porter Smith, the first medical missionaryto Central China, in 1864, and by David Hill in 1865.In 1864 Griffith John had the joy of baptizing his firstconverts at Hankow, and in th

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