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Download or read book The Church at Home and Abroad Volume 1 written by Presbyterian Church In The Work and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ...church that has been formed in connection with the Press, was once a member of our boys' boarding-school in Nmgpo, and afterwards a compositor in the Press. While working here he felt a call to preach the gospel to his fellow countrymen, and was received by the presbytery, and with other members of the mission I helped to give him his theological education, Dr. W. A. P. Martin giving him instruction in exegesis. He has a congregation of upwards of one hundred and twenty-four church members. On a recent Sabbath he paid a handsome tribute to the memory of the late Rev. H. V. Rankin, formerly of Ningpo. He spoke of his fidelity in his preaching, of his inviting the school-boys to his house to talk with them, and of the time when he (Mr. Bau) was under conviction and tried to shun Mr. Rankin's faithful talks; but he sought him out, and would not give him up till he had brought him to Christ. It is many years since this faithful missionary slept in his lonely grave on the Shantung promontory, overlooking the sea. Though he has ceased from his labors, the work has gone on, and the seed sown in that school-boy's heart has borne fruit. For more than a quarter of a century has Mr. Bau been a faithful preacher of the gospel--the first to get a foothold in the great city of Soochow and other places, and for many years the pastor of the First Presbyterian church in Shanghai. Form OF Bequest.--I give, devise and bequeath unto " The Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States Of America" the sum of--dollars, to be expended for the appropriate objects of said corporation. The corporate name is "The Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America." Letters relating to...