. The awakening of China . lish-speaking nations andthe Far East. On one hand, they have supplied suchinformation in regard to China as was indispensablefor commercial and national intercourse, while on theother they have brought the growing science of theWestern world to bear on the mind of China. Notonly did Dr. Morrison, who led the way in 1807, givethe Chinese the first translation of our Holy Scriptures;he was the very first to compile a Chinese dictionaryin the English language. THE PIONEER OF AMERICAN MISSIONS It was not until 1838 that America sent her pioneermissionary in the person o
. The awakening of China . lish-speaking nations andthe Far East. On one hand, they have supplied suchinformation in regard to China as was indispensablefor commercial and national intercourse, while on theother they have brought the growing science of theWestern world to bear on the mind of China. Notonly did Dr. Morrison, who led the way in 1807, givethe Chinese the first translation of our Holy Scriptures;he was the very first to compile a Chinese dictionaryin the English language. THE PIONEER OF AMERICAN MISSIONS It was not until 1838 that America sent her pioneermissionary in the person of Dr. Bridgman. Besidescooperating with others in the revision of MorrisonsBible, or, more properly, in making a new version,Bridgman won immortality by originating and con-ducting the Chinese Repository, a monthly magazinewhich became a thesaurus of information in regardto the Chinese Empire. THE PRESS—A MISSIONARY FRANKLIN The American Board showed their enlightenedpolicy by establishing a printing-press at Canton, and. AGENCY OF MISSIONARIES 283 in sending S. Wells Williams to take charge of it, in1833. John R. Morrison, son of the missionary, had,indeed, made a similar attempt; but from variouscauses he had felt compelled to relinquish the enter-prise. From the arrival of Williams to the presentday the printing-press has shown itself a growingpower—a lever which, planted on a narrow fulcrumin the suburb of a single port, has succeeded in movingthe Eastern world. The art of printing was not new to the had discovered it before it was dreamed of inEurope; but with their hereditary tendency to runin ruts, they had continued to engrave their characterson wooden blocks in the form of stereotype divisible types (mostly on wood) they hadindeed made some experiments; but that improvedmethod never obtained currency among the was reserved for Christian missions to confer onthem the priceless boon of the power press and metallict3rpes. What Willia
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