. Historical sketches of the foreign missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church : from the origin of each to the end of the year 1880, with a map of each mission. eo. The general Spanish work is in a growing condition, and the series ofyears spent with the English-speaking population has attached them to ourcause, and given us a firm center from which to carry on future operations. The weekly paper, El Evangclista, started in 1877, and entirely self-supporting, is doing effective service. It has penetrated, says a recentReport, where Bibles and Testaments were excluded. It has been lentinto th
. Historical sketches of the foreign missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church : from the origin of each to the end of the year 1880, with a map of each mission. eo. The general Spanish work is in a growing condition, and the series ofyears spent with the English-speaking population has attached them to ourcause, and given us a firm center from which to carry on future operations. The weekly paper, El Evangclista, started in 1877, and entirely self-supporting, is doing effective service. It has penetrated, says a recentReport, where Bibles and Testaments were excluded. It has been lentinto the most fanatical circles in the land. A considerable number of itsoriginal articles have been republished in Spain. The operations of the Bible Societies furnish great aid in connection withitinerant journeys and explorations conducted in the interior. The accountsof these explorations, and the calls for expansion in our mission, given inReport for 1880 should be regarded with hopefulness. The report for thatyear shows 3 male and 5 female missionaries ; 495 members and probation-ers ; church property, $71,000; collected for the year in the Mission, $5, The China Missions. We continue the historical sketches of our Foreign Mis-sions according to the plan indicated in the last number ofthe Manual. V/e again refer to Dr. Reids Missions andMissionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church as theonly adequate representation of the subject, and urge all thereaders of the Manual to possess themselves of those vol-umes. The sketches are only designed to stimulate interestin further historical study, as also in the study of the succes-sive Annual Reports. We take up here our four Missions in CHINA. The honor of opening Protestant mission work in China belongs to theLondon Missionary Society. Yet Robert Morrison, their first missionary,not being allowed to embark in pursuit of his object in any of the EastIndia Companys ships, came first to New York, whence he sailed, in1807, for
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