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The payment of $50 at one time constitutes a minister, and the payment of $100 at one time constitutes any other person, an Honorary Member of the Board.

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THE

MISSIONARY HERALD.

VOL. LXIV. -JUNE, 1868.- No. VI.

NORTH CHINA MISSION.

-THE ENGRAVING.

FOR several years previous to 1854, Dr. Bridgman, though connected with the Canton mission, had spent most of his time at Shanghai, engaged with others in the translation of the Scriptures. In view of the occasion for his continued residence there, and the opening found on every side for missionary labor, the Prudential Committee then thought it best to establish another mission at that city, and in April, 1854, Messrs. Aitchison and Blodget sailed from New York to join Dr. Bridgman. They reached Shanghai on the first of September. Early in 1858 they were joined by Rev. William A. Macy, transferred from the Canton mission, and both Aitchison and Macy were looking at, and with devoted spirit longing for the time when they might enter, "regions beyond." But in April, 1859, Macy, at the age of 34, and in August of the same year, and at the same age, Aitchison "fell asleep." About this time also ill-health occasioned the return of Mrs. Blodget to the United States. She left Shanghai in September, 1859, her husband, though by no means strong, remaining in the field, and hoping, ere long, himself to enter upon the work "beyond," on which his brethren had been prevented from entering. In June, 1860, he embraced a favorable opportunity to visit Japan, for the improvement of his health, and in July he sailed from Kanagawa to the mouth of Peiho River. In September he visited Tientsin for a few days, and in November of the same year (1860), "though in great bodily weakness," he returned, and took up his residence there; finding "opened to us, in the providence of God, an extensive and very interesting country, in the regions beyond those yet occupied by Protestant. missionaries." Thus, as the Report of the Board for 1861 states, "the strong desires of the brethren, cherished through all the changes of many years, were at length gratified; the ardent prayers of the departed, as well as of those still living, were answered; and a station was commenced in the extreme northern part of the great empire. After some weeks of observation Mr. Blodget wrote, that he felt it to be "due to the heathen," "due to the Lord and Head of the Church," "due to the Board itself, as a matter of Christian policy," "due to the mission at Shanghai," and "due to other missionary societies," that the field should be permanently occupied by the American Board. In November, 1861,

Dr. Bridgman died. It was now expected that operations would be mainly far to the north of Shanghai, and the name of the mission was changed from the "Shanghai" to the "North China Mission."

From the first, Mr. Blodget's success, and that of other (English) missionaries at Tientsin, was encouraging, the country to be reached from that port was "immense," and his calls for help were urgent. He was, ere long, strongly advised by medical and other friends, himself to leave the field for a time, and without more delay, that he might regain his health; but he wrote: "If possible I shall hold on to welcome new laborers." Mr. and Mrs. Stanley sailed from Boston to join him, in July, 1862, but were so late in reaching Shanghai that they could not go up the river to Tientsin until the spring of 1863, reaching that place on the 13th of March; when Mr. Blodget wrote: "Thus, after nine long years of waiting, when every other member of the mission has either returned home or been removed by death, reinforcements have arrived. The solitary branch has begun to sprout again, and we may yet have a flourishing mission in this field." Mr. and Mrs. Chapin sailed from New York November 1, 1862, and reached Tientsin May 18, 1863, about eight weeks after Mr. Stanley's arrival; and in his first letter from the field, Mr. Chapin added his “appeal to those already received from Mr. Blodget, for as large a reinforcement" as could be sent. Mr. Stanley, also, had already sent his call, and that of the perishing multitudes around him, to the churches at home, saying, "May the Lord provide men and means for the reaping of these fields, already white unto the harvest."

Thus reinforced, Mr. Blodget, having previously twice visited Peking, and his health having much improved, went to that place in February, 1864, to establish himself there permanently. Mrs. Bridgman, after a visit to the United States, sailed again for China in February, 1864, and reached Peking July 1. Mr. Gulick, a son of Rev. P. J. Gulick, of the Sandwich Islands' mission, having been appointed to North China, was ordained and married at Canton, in 1864, reached Peking November 5, and the next summer commenced a new station at Kalgan, about 140 miles northwest from Peking. Mr. and Mrs. Goodrich left New York for this field in January, 1865, and about the first of September joined Mr. Blodget at Peking. Mr. Doolittle, formerly of the Foochow mission, with his wife, and Mr. and Mrs. Mark Williams, sailed from New York April 7, 1866, and reached Tientsin August 20. Mr. Williams has since joined Mr. Gulick at Kalgan, and Mr. Chapin has taken a new station at Túngchau, twelve miles east of Peking. Dr. Treat sailed for the field in September, 1867, and reached Peking December 6. Mr. Hunt, printer, formerly of Madras, with his wife, and Misses Andrews and Porter, are now on the way to join the mission, having sailed from New York on the 21st of March last.

The mission thus occupies, at present, four stations, and consists of 7 ordained missionaries, 1 physician, 1 printer, (not yet on the ground,) and 11 female assistant-missionaries, three of whom are on the way out. And "yet there is room"; and not "room" only, but urgent need, for more laborers. Who shall say how many the Christian church ought to send, at once, to the many millions of pagans in China? God, in his providence, has opened the field; the converting work of the Holy Spirit, in connection with the labors of different missions, or native converts, and, sometimes, with the very slightest amount of human