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It is proper that I give some reasons for the publication of this paper. The importance of the subject of the ecclesiastical organization of the churches gathered in heathen lands, I conceive to be a sufficient reason. Those who may differ in regard to the views set forth in t...
We do not know by whom these native Churches "are said" to have a two-fold or three-fold _ecclesiastical_ relation. It is not so said by the Missionaries. They contend that the...
1. Chapter 1It is proper that I give some reasons for the publication of this paper. The importance of the subject of the ecclesiastical organization of the churches gathered in heathen lan...
3. Chapter 3This incipient Classis met next in the autumn of the same year at Peh-chui-ia, a church under the care of the English Presbyterian brethren. At this meeting it became a real Cla...
5. Chapter 5If the Missionaries be allowed to proceed in building up a Church, like our own, simply with reference to the evangelization of China, doubtless brethren in the ministry, and ot...
2. Chapter 2Our communication was laid before the Board of Foreign Missions. They designated it a _Memorial_, and decided that they had no right to publish it. Of course we had no means of...
6. Chapter 6_Resolved_, That the Synod learn, with gratitude to God, of the great progress of the work of the Lord at Amoy, and in the region around, so that already we hear of six organize...
7. Chapter 7"I also expressed my gratitude that the Synod had manifested so much patience and Christian courtesy towards myself and the Mission, for with one or two exceptions, not an unkin...