On the Trail of the Pioneers a Sketch of the Missions of the United Free Churc
On the Trail of the Pioneers a Sketch of the Missions of the United Free Churc
James Horne Morrison
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Away to the east is Korea, where the Japs landed and drove the Russians back across the Yalu River into Manchuria. Ten years before, they had driven the Chinese over the same ground. On that occasion Mr. Wylie, one of our missionaries, was mur- dered in a street of Liaoyang by some Manchu soldiers, who were passing through the city on their way to the front. Back the Russians were pushed to Liaoyang, where they fought desperately, back to Mukden, where again they joined battle, the most tre- me...ndous battles, perhaps, the world had ever seen. And our missions, scarcely recovered from the Boxer persecution, had to pass through the fire again. We land at New-chwang, where the pioneer of our mission, William C. Burns, found an early grave after only a few months' labour in the field. He was followed in 1872 by Dr. Ross, the father of the Manchurian Church. How great a change has taken place since these early I 113 114 ON THE TRAIL OF THE PIONEERS days ! Now there are over fifty missionaries in the field, with several hundreds of native helpers, while up from the coast, for six hundred miles and more, there stretches a line of churches and preaching stations, schools and hospitals, in which the Gospel is preached to tens of thousands.
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