China Awakens: A Call to Christian Literature
China sleeps no more. She is awake at last, and thirsts for knowledge; and she will draw that knowledge out of turbid wells unless the Christian church gives it to her. Three or four years ago had the church taken note of the opportunity, it would have been easy to flood the Chinese empire with Christian literature. This literature would certainly have been read, and with God’s blessing, might have brought forth wonderful results. We shall probably never have such an opportunity again; but we will at least humbly accept the teaching of the past, and dispose ourselves to seize the opportunities which God in his great compassion may grant us. Would that every reader might take part in this14work, and, as has been said by a veteran of the China mission field, “stand in the foremost rank of one of the greatest movements which the world has ever seen.” — Missionary Review of the World.