CHINA A letter from Rev. J. Lewis Shuck, Shanghai, China, dated February 20, 1848, has been received by Rev. T. S. Malcom, Corresponding Secretary of the American Baptist Publication Society. We make the following extracts:
"Our mission operations move on as usual. To-day I preach my fourth sermon in the Shanghae dialect. We are at present much straitened for want of a chapel, but hope ere long to have one. The people are quiet, friendly and accessible. Yong Seen Sang is well, and is beginning to use this dialect. In such things, however, he lacks tact. The other native preacher, Mun, is doing well in the dialect. Pray for us. We are much pleased with our location, and trust God has something for us to do here.
"Our Mission labors under a serious difficulty for want of hymn books in our English services. The custom in China has hitherto been to sing, without lining. The brethren, of the London and Episcopal Missions have a full supply of their respective denominational hymn books, and I write at present for the purpose of soliciting your society for a grant of four or five dozen copies of the "Psalmist;" the best hymn book which, in my opinion, has ever been published.
"My family and self are in good health, and beg to be affectionately remembered to their Philadelphia friends. We often think of them with sincere affection.
============ [From the Tennesse Baptist, Nashville, August 17, 1848. CD version. Scanned and formatted by Jim Duvall.]
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