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Einige Früchte der Missionsarbeit in China. Dritte Reihe Nr. 55
1881Best.-Nr. 145214Basel: Verlag der Missionsbuchhandlung 1881. First Edition. Paperback. Good. Basel Verlag der Missionsbuchhandlung 1881. Duodecimo 16 pages. Original pictorial yellow wrappers slightly chipped with two short sealed tears; small old inkstain on the front cover; acidic paper slightly tanned; a good copy. One of this popular and ephemeral series from the Basel Mission. The title translates as 'Fruits of Missionary Work in China'. This number contains four short pieces: 'Kien's Geschichte' Kien's Story which recounts the conversion and baptism of a Formosan man; 'Ein christlicher Mandarin' A Christian Mandarin comprising a short biography of Yung Wing the product of a missionary education in Canton and the first Chinese student to graduate from Yale; 'Ein Frühvollendeter' Perfected Early or A Life Cut Short about Lim Kiam Kim a missionary from the Penghu or Pescadores Islands in the Taiwan Strait he was supported by Presbyterian missionary societies in Australia; and 'Wong Kiu Taik' a short biography of this important preacher from Fujian a woodcut portrait of Reverend Wong and his wife Lydia is on the rear cover. Verlag der Missionsbuchhandlung paperback
