Identifier: 01861476.emory.edu
Title: The illustrated history of Methodism (electronic resource); the story of the origin and progress of the Methodist church, from its foundation by John Wesley to the present day. Written in popular style and illustrated by more than one thousand portraits and views of persons
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Lee, James Wideman, 1849-1919 Luccock, Naphtali, 1853-1916 Dixon, James Main, 1856-1933
Subjects: Methodism
Publisher: St Louis New York : The Methodist magazine publishing co.
Contributing Library: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library

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in different portions of the Celes-tial Empire, the most populous countryon the face of the earth. Foo-Chow, the capital of Fuhkienprov-ince, is a city containing half a millioninhabitants. It is a river port, situatedthirty-four miles from the sea, on thenorth bank of the Min. When the threeAmerican missionaries, the day aftertheir arrival, looked down from a neigh-boring eminence upon its castellatedwalls, a sense of the tremendous taskthat lay before them impressed theirminds with overwhelming power. Butthey braced themselves for the conflict.Settling upon a small island on the Minconnected with the land by the Bridgeof a Thousand Ages, they labored instudying the language, distributingtracts and Scripture passages, and inpreaching; but for ten years no convertentered their fold. Collins was com-pelled to return to America, only to die;his grave is in California. Mrs. Whitesuccumbed to the climate, and wasburied there. A band of fresh helpersarrived, among them Dr. R. Maclay, (694)
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YOUNl. J. AI.I.KN,The veteran Missionary to China. (695) 696 THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF METHODISM. who worked later in the Japan field, andis passing the remainder of his days insouthern California. The Rev. I. WWiley, who arrived in 1851, became latera bishop of the Church; and it was hewho, in December, 1867, had the satis-faction of organizing the Foo-Chow Con-ference. By that time the members andprobationers amounted to a total of overtwo thousand. Bishop Wileys name isassociated in a peculiarly close way withthe great city on the Min. The ten years immediately precedingthe act of organization proved to be atime of growth and hopefulness. InJuly, 1857, Ting Ang, a mature man offorty-seven, who had a wife and fivechildren, after undergoing a completecourse of catechizing, was baptized, andthree months later his wife and two of hischildren followed in his wake. By theend of the year there was a native bandof thirteen Foo-Chow Christians, some ofwhom proved stanch to the faith inpres

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