Gospel Barred from China: Early Missionary Restrictions

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 26, 1895

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 21, No. 38.

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Gospel Barred from China: Early Missionary Restrictions

NINETY years ago the empire of China was barred against the introduction of the Gospel. The only missionary in Canton was obliged to live in seclusion, and was forbidden to utter a word in public. Forty years later the American Board opened a mission in the suburbs of Foochow, with a single missionary.