Life among the Chinese: with characteristic sketches and incidents of missionary operations and prospects in China . thatour mission erect on this lot a church edifice con-taining two audience rooms, one being for Chinese,the other for English worship. In view of the in-creasing foreign community in this city, it was felt tobe important to provide at once a place for public re-ligious worship in the English language, and ourmercantile friends offered to place at the service ofour mission one thousand dollars to aid in erectingthe building. Under these circumstances we decidedto erect the churc
Life among the Chinese: with characteristic sketches and incidents of missionary operations and prospects in China . thatour mission erect on this lot a church edifice con-taining two audience rooms, one being for Chinese,the other for English worship. In view of the in-creasing foreign community in this city, it was felt tobe important to provide at once a place for public re-ligious worship in the English language, and ourmercantile friends offered to place at the service ofour mission one thousand dollars to aid in erectingthe building. Under these circumstances we decidedto erect the church, availing ourselves of the sub-scription tendered to us by the foreign community inEuhchau, which in the end amounted to the hand-some sum of thirteen hundred dollars. The Chinese portion of this church edifice in theTienang (that is, Heavenly-rest) ward, was dedi-cated to the worship and service of God on Sunday,October 18, 1856. The Kev. Messrs. Peet, Doo-little, and Hartwell, of the American Board Missionin this city, united with us in conducting the serv-ices. The building is a neat and substantial struc-. English and Chinese Church at Tienang. TIENANG CHURCH. 209 ture of brick, resting on a stone foundation. Theouter face of the walls is of red brick, lined withwhite. A very pretty wooden finish, painted white,runs round the entire building, underneath theeaves of the roof, and imparts to it a fine ap-pearance. The interior of the audience-room is twenty-fivefeet by thirty-four, height of ceiling twenty feet. Avestibule eight feet deep extends across the frontof the building, faced by four wooden columns, flutedand painted white. The windows are ten feet highby four and a half wide. The pulpit, altar, and seats are of hard wood, var-nished. An aisle three feet wide passes up themiddle of the audience-room. The building standsimmediately in front of the premises I occupy, andabuts on our new road leading from the street to theforeign residences on the hill. The situation
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