China as a Missionary Field

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 8, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 46.

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China as a Missionary Field

CHINA, with its 400,000,000 of population, properly regarded as a heathen land, is by no means unlettered. Very few adult males in the vast empire are unable to read, and the libraries of the country are believed to be tenfold the extent of those of our land. The women, however, are wholly uneducated; and the belief that they do not possess souls is universal. The land is an open missionary field, and some of the great missionary societies are successfully working in it.
Desirable as I can testify, but