Life among the Chinese: with characteristic sketches and incidents of missionary operations and prospects in China . t is, Church of the True God. A tablet ofhandsome porphyry, four by one and a half feet,is inserted perpendicularly in the wall, just over thefront door-way, and on it are carved the threeChinese characters representing the name of thechurch. The letters are gilded, and being largethey present a fine appearance, and are readdaily by thousands of Chinese who pass along thestreet. The entire cost of the church, including price ofland, four hundred dollars, and cost of walling it i
Life among the Chinese: with characteristic sketches and incidents of missionary operations and prospects in China . t is, Church of the True God. A tablet ofhandsome porphyry, four by one and a half feet,is inserted perpendicularly in the wall, just over thefront door-way, and on it are carved the threeChinese characters representing the name of thechurch. The letters are gilded, and being largethey present a fine appearance, and are readdaily by thousands of Chinese who pass along thestreet. The entire cost of the church, including price ofland, four hundred dollars, and cost of walling it in,two hundred and eighty dollars, is under two thou-sand six hundred dollars. The church was dedicated on Sunday, August 3,1856, the exercises commencing about a quarter pastnine oclock A. M. The church was filled with anorderly and attentive congregation of Chinese. Allthe teachers, scholars, and servants connected withthe three missions in this city were present. Wewere also favored with the presence of Revs. C. , J. Doolittle, and C. Hartwell, of the Amer-ican Board Mission: and of Rev. Mr. MCaw and. Interior of the Church at longtau. PEEACHING. 203 Bev. Mr. Fearnley of the Church of England Mis-sion. We were also gratified to notice several mem-bers of the foreign mercantile community present onthe occasion. In the chapel at Iongtau the congregations areof a floating, miscellaneous character. The doors ofthe chapel are thrown open as an invitation to comein, and generally the room is soon filled with smith comes from his anvil, the tradesman fromhis shop, the cake-vender enters boldly with his trayon his head, the rustic marches up the aisle with hispoultry on his shoulders, the cooly lays down his bur-den at the door, and all take their positions, eithersitting or standing, to hear what the foreigner hasto say. The preacher commences, and perhaps his firstsentence elicits from some one of his auditors a ratherloudly expressed approval or dissent. Disreg
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