He was born in Pomerania in 1803, and early conceived the idea of becoming a missionary to the heathen, though it seems time, from his attdyiny the Arabi nages, lo had the iutentio: an Legation at Constan became a student ary Ins and in July 1826 was ordained at Rotterdam, and sailed for Batavia in September. There he stayed with Mr. Medhurst for a ti the Malay and Chinesel: the latter of which he is said to ha a great proficient. Though destined for Sumatra, the troubles in that country did not allow him to proceed, and he sailed first for Rhio and afterwards to Siam and Singapore. In 1831 he went to China, and after calling at several places along' the coast reached from which he went as far as the Gulf of Leaou-tung, returning at length to Macao. In the course of this voyage he practised medical work, which gave him a cordial welcome on the part of the people, among whom he distributed a large number of Christian The following year he embarked gain for a voyage along the coast of China, Formosa, Corea and Loochoo, in which he acted as interpreter and surgeon, and where, as on previous and mbsequent trips of a like kind, he in the circulation of re-In 1835 he was appointed inese Secretaries to the English Commission in China, as in 1843 auccveded the Hon, J. R. Morrison as Chinese Secretary to the Government of Hongkong. It lias been teuly said that amid all his multifarious duties he never forgot the mission work, which to prosecute in a variety of ways. in his numerous journeys, and by the institution of that lie called' the Chinese Mission," a society for the employment of native Christians for evangelistic work in the interior, as well as by his own personal labours in the country, and the preparation and issue of a great variety of books and tracts, he unweariedly carried on the work to which he devoted himself. The style in which his Chinese publications are written, as in large measure they are said to have been composed by himself, has been severely handled, and his acquaintance with many of the dialects of China appears to be open to question; but there can be no doubt as to the extent of his acquirements in Chinese, both oral and gonsole'tlousness with which lo prossoated written, and no contradicting the zeal and
his work. he has left nothing behind him that may justly be regarded as the fruit of his planting or as the super~ structure of which he lad the foundation, except it may be the societies, to whose existence he directly or indirectly con tributed, I regard him as entitled to be named among the Fathers and Founders of the Missions we are now reviewing. His numerous works in English, Chinese, Tapanese, Siamese, Dutch and German give some idea of the variety and extent of his and gain for him a high and the list of Oriental ority-four years of servic
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