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A HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN MISSIONS

IN CHINA

A HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN MISSIONS

IN CHINA

CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

To the visitor to China in the year 1926 one of the most interesting and thought-provoking features of the landscape was the physical evidence of the activities of Christian missionaries. If the traveller entered the country by Shanghai, on the outskirts of the city his steamer passed the substantial buildings of an institution which he was informed was Shanghai College, maintained by American Baptists. Once in the city, if he were observant, he found buildings of the Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Associations, churches, Christian hospitals and schools, and a structure called the Missions Building in which were the headquarters of many national and local Protestant organizations. In the suburbs he discovered the well-equipped campus of St. John's University, the spacious buildings of the McTyeire School for girls, and the great Catholic plant at Zikawei, with its stately church, its commodious schools, orphanages, and seminaries, its library, its museum of natural history, its meteorological observatory, and its printing plant. If he came by way of Suez and Singapore, and if he paused at Hongkong long enough to visit Canton, the tourist saw, as his steamer carried him up one of principal channels toward the city, the extensive campus of Lingnan University, or, as it was formerly called, Canton Christian College. On the banks of the other channel he found the large building of a girls' boarding school-the True Light Seminary-and the smaller buildings of a Protestant union theological seminary. Long before he reached the city he saw rising in the distance the twin towers of the Roman Catholic cathedral, and on or near the bund he found a Protestant hospital, church

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