History of American missions to the heathen, from their commencement to the present time . of the mis-sion to sustain all its operations for two months. Information had been re-ceived of the pecuniary condition and prospects of the Board. A meetingwas called on the last day of the month. Retrenchment was seen to be un-avoidable. The free schools would suffer from a temporary suspension;but every other department would suffer more fatally. It was resolved tosuspend all but 14, to admit no new class into the seminary, to dismiss apart of the students of the seminary and girls school, to stop all
History of American missions to the heathen, from their commencement to the present time . of the mis-sion to sustain all its operations for two months. Information had been re-ceived of the pecuniary condition and prospects of the Board. A meetingwas called on the last day of the month. Retrenchment was seen to be un-avoidable. The free schools would suffer from a temporary suspension;but every other department would suffer more fatally. It was resolved tosuspend all but 14, to admit no new class into the seminary, to dismiss apart of the students of the seminary and girls school, to stop all buildingexcept the completion of the printing office, and to make other painful re-trenchments. The heathen triumphed. They said the mission was goingdown. Native church members were discouraged, and resisted ridicule,threats and temptation, less firmly. Those educated in the seminary, andthus fitted for public employment, had long been sought by rich heathenparents of high caste, as husbands for their daughters. Many , principally, the unusual number of 2»4 HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN BOARD- The government of the island, November4, understandirifr the want offunds, made a donation of £200, in token of the high sense ehtertained ofthe important services of the Minor died in June. Eastern and South Eastern Asia. Chinese printing, with metalictype, was carried on at Macao, where Mr. Williams had been, vsrith the press,ever since 1835. This year he completed the printing of Medhursts Eng-lish and Chinese Dictionary. Besides the Chinese, he-engaged in the studyof the Japanese language, into which he intended, ultimately, to introducethe art of printing. Principally by means of the dispensary, which wassupported by foreigners residing at Canton, access was obtained to severalthousands of the Chinese, to whom some knowledge of the gospel was im-parted in conversation, and by books and tracts-, of which a large supply inChinese, and some in
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