法国的可悲和令人气愤的行动

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以下几页包含了另一年在中国工作的一些记录--这一年
如果^jHj，在中国内地传教会的历史上，有几个方面是前所未有的。
传教士的历史上前所未有的一年。最粗略的回顾表明，有许多理由需要对上帝进行最虔诚的感恩和赞美，在这篇简短的序言中，我们可以对其中的几个理由表示感激。
在这篇简短的序言中，我们可以感激地指出其中的几个原因。
传道会的各站都有和平与安宁。遗憾的是
在中国的许多地方，法国的可悲和令人气愤的行动引起了极大的不安和激动；在一些地方，它导致了当地基督徒的迫害和痛苦；在一些地方，传教会的财产被转移到了其他地方。
在一些地点，教会的财产被激动的暴徒破坏。这种情况主要发生在
大部分发生在中国东南部，但到目前为止，我们还没有收到任何一个地区发生灾难或骚乱的记录。
但到目前为止，我们还没有在我们的七十余个站和外站中的任何一个发生灾难或骚乱的记录，尽管其中有不少是在中国的偏远地区。
但到目前为止，在我们的七十多个站点和外站中，还没有任何一个有灾难或动乱的记录。电报告诉我们，在温州的传教士财产被毁。
我们可能在该站遭受了损失；但目前我们还没有确切的情报。
但我们还没有确切的情报。
我们的传教士中没有人因死亡而离开。在1883年，我们不得不
我们不得不哀悼Schofield博士、Jackson夫人和Geo. W. Clarke夫人。后者的死亡记录
后者的死亡记录被收录到本卷中，而且我们很高兴地得知，有不少人
我们很感激地得知，有不少人记住了这个孤独的哀悼者和他没有母亲的孩子；但我们没有得到任何关于1884年期间有任何一个人去世的消息。
但我们还没有得到消息说，在1884年期间，我们的许多弟兄姐妹中的任何一个人从地球上的服务中移到了
在上面休息。
有很多属灵的祝福。在充满希望的皈依方面，我们来自传教区的信件记录了更多的加入者。
我们在传教士的信件中记录了比以往任何一年都要多的加入者。这些都是在《中国日报》上
由于编辑的时间和力量受到很大的压力，《中国百万》对这些情况的报道并不完善。
由于公众集会的数量、许多人离开中国，以及《中国百万》中异常繁忙的一般信件，对编辑的时间和力量造成了极大的压力。
但我们的版面显示，在许多地方，有许多祝福。
但我们的页面显示，在许多站点都有很多祝福。在平阳府的一个站点，候选人和询问者的人数据说达到了三百万。
候选人和询问者的人数据说有三百人。三十多年前，只有
三十多年前，中华帝国只有三百五十名本地基督徒，包括海峡的中国基督徒。
海峡两岸的中国基督徒。
劳动者的数量有了显著的增加。神赐给我们的喜悦是
今年我们派出了45名新的传教士，此外，还有12名以上的传教士被接受。
其中一些人将在本卷到达我们的读者手中之前离开。我们还必须
我们还必须注意到，因健康原因暂时返回英国，或因永久退休而引起的工作人员变化。
我们还必须指出，考虑到工作的范围，因健康原因暂时返回英国或永久退休而引起的工作人员变化非常小。
工作的范围来说是非常小的。
收入增加了。每月我们都能报告说
与前一年相比，用于维持工作的捐款有了可喜的增长；但几乎不需要指出，这一年的支出异常沉重。
当我们想起传教士人数的大量增加，以及他们的装备所涉及的开支时，这一点就很明显了。
这一点在想起传教士人数的大量增加以及他们的装备和旅费所涉及的开支时就很明显了。但我们仍然可以欣慰地记录，绝对需要
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我们仍然可以感激地指出，绝对的需要已经得到满足，这是神的应许；而当供应，如寡妇的饭和油的供应，是小的时候，我们也会感激。
当供应量像寡妇的饭和油一样少的时候，上帝已经让它足够了。
" 荣耀归于上帝！他所做的大事！他如此爱世人，甚至赐给他们生命。他爱世人，将他的儿子赐给我们。
祂舍命赎罪。
并开了L'fc门，让所有人都可以进去。"



HE following pages contain some record of work in China during another year—a year
if^jHj which has been in several respects unprecedented in the history of the China Inland
Mission. The most cursory review suggests many reasons for the most devout thanksgiving ^and praise to God, and a few of these may, in this brief preface, be gratefully
noted.
There has been peace and tranquility m the stations of the Mission. The deplorable and
exasperating action of France has caused, in many parts of China, great uneasiness and excitement ; and in some places it has led to much persecution and suffering among the native Christians ; and
at a number of stations Mission property has been destroyed by excited mobs. This, for the most
part, has been in South-Eastern China, but up to the present time no record has reached us of
disaster or disturbance at any one of our seventy stations and out-stations, though not a few of them
are in the remote parts of China proper. Telegraphic tidings have told of the destruction of mission
property in Wun-chau, and at this station we may have sustained loss ; but as yet we have no
definite intelligence.
There has been no removal by death of any of our missionaries. In the year 1883 we had to
mourn the removal of Dr. Schofield, Mrs. Jackson, and Mrs. Geo. W. Clarke. The record of the
death of the latter comes into the present volume, and has led, we are thankful to learn, not a few
to remember the lonely mourner and his motherless babe ; but no tidings have reached us of the
removal during the year 1884 of any one of our many brethren and sisters from earthly service to
the rest above.
There has been much spiritual blessing. In the way of hopeful conversions our letters from the
mission field have recorded more accessions than in any previous year. These have been but very
imperfectly reported in China's Millions, owing to the very great pressure upon the Editor's
time and strength caused by the number of public meetings, the many departures for China, and
the unusually heavy general correspondence of the year; but our pages show that at many of the
stations there has been much blessing. At one station, Ping-yang Fu, the number of candidates
and inquirers is reported at three hundred. A little more than thirty years ago, there were only
three hundred and fifty native Christians in the Chinese Empire, including Chinese Christians in
the Straits.
There has been a remarkable increase in the number of labourers. God has given us the joy of
sending forth forty-five new missionaries this year, besides which, more than twelve others have been
accepted, some of whom will leave before this volume is in the hands of our readers. We have also
to note that the changes in the working staff, caused by temporary return to England on account
of health, or permanent retirement from the Mission, have been very small considering the extent
of the work.
There has been an enlarged income. From month to month we have been enabled to report a
gratifying increase in the contributions for sustaining the work, as compared with the previous year ; but it is scarcely needful to remark that the expenditure of the year has been unusually heavy.
This will be obvious when the large addition to the number of missionaries h remembered, and the
outlay involved for their outfits and passages. Still we can gratefully record that absolute needs
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have been met, and this is what God promises ; and that when the supply, like that of the widow's
meal and oil, has been small, GOD has made it to suffice.
" To GoD be the glory ! great things He hath done ! So loved He the world that He gave us His Son,
Who yielded His life an atonement for sin,
And opened the L'fc-gate that all may go in."