. The Chinese empire: a general & missionary survey ... there in 1842. In thefollowing year the London Missionary Society transferredits printing press and its Anglo-Chinese College to thatcolony. Dr. Legge, who had been in Malacca since 1839,being its Principal. For the next thirty-four years, untilhis appointment as Professor of Chinese at Oxford, continued his invaluable labours, placing the wholeworld, and the missionary body especially, under a lastingobligation to him for his translations and commentaries onthe Chinese classics. Among his colleagues in the Hongkong must
. The Chinese empire: a general & missionary survey ... there in 1842. In thefollowing year the London Missionary Society transferredits printing press and its Anglo-Chinese College to thatcolony. Dr. Legge, who had been in Malacca since 1839,being its Principal. For the next thirty-four years, untilhis appointment as Professor of Chinese at Oxford, continued his invaluable labours, placing the wholeworld, and the missionary body especially, under a lastingobligation to him for his translations and commentaries onthe Chinese classics. Among his colleagues in the Hongkong must be mentioned Drs. Chalmers andHobson. Among the other Societies represented at Hongkongduring this period were the Church Missionary Societytemporarily; ^ the Basel Missionary Society, which com-menced work on the island in 1847; and the Ehenish ^ Bishop Smith of Hongkong first went out in connection with in 1844, but his health failing, he had to return home after twoyears service. He was consecrated Bishop of Victoria, Hongkong, in 1. Rev. M. T. Rev. H. Z. Rev. Ed. Pagell. GROUP II. 2. Rev. A. Rev. Dr. Rev. M. Schaub. 3. Rev. C. P. Rev. R. Rev. A. W. Heyde. For short Biographiad outliiies, see patjes 437-8. To face 1 tj. INTRODUCTION 17 Mission with such men as Genaehr and Lobscheid. TheRev. George Piercy, who founded the Wesleyan Missionsin China, commenced his work there before removing toCanton, and among the teachers connected with theMorrison Education Society should be mentioned the R. Brown. In Canton the work grew round such men as the , H. Graves of the American Baptists, South, a workerwho has recently celebrated his Jubilee of missionaryservice in China ; while the Rev. I. J. Roberts, subsequentlyfamous as the one to whom the leader of the TaipingRebellion made application for baptism, had moved fromHongkong to this city. The work at Amoy was founded by Abeel and Boo
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