Forty Years in South China : the Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D.
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There are now in connection with our church thirteen converts. In connection with the church of the London brethren there are eight. Two of our members, although compelled to labor with their hands for the sustenance of themselves and their families, yet devote the after- noons and evenings of almost every day in the week, in making known the way of salvation to their countrymen. They spend the Sabbath also, only omitting their labors long enough to listen to the preaching of the missionary and... to partake of their noonday meal, from early in the morning until bedtime, in the same way, publishing the Gospel to their countrymen." THE TERM QUESTION. It was at this tiire that the translation of the Bible into the Classic Chinese Version, or " Dele- gates' Version " as it was afterwards called, was going on. A long and heated controversy had arisen as to the proper .terms in the Chinese lan- guage to be used in translation of the words " God " and " Spirit." Missionaries in different parts of the empire took most opposite views and held them with the greatest tenacity.
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