The Immortal Work of George Borrow Still Living Over a hundred years ago George Borrow, whose well-known works "The Bible in Spain," "Lax "Romany Rye," have justly made him famous, was possessed of a longing to become a missionary to China, and the fruits of this longing, though an unfulfilled one, are living to-day. He was a genius as linguist, and, from private study of the Ghinese and Manchurian written Tanguages at the British Museum, he acquired a working acquaintance with both.
At this time a contemporary of George Borrow, Stepan Vasilevitch Lipoftsoff, of the Asiatic Section the Russian Foreign Office, was in Peking, and there acquired a knowledge of both Chinese and Manchu, and upon kis retura began a transi tion of the Testament into Manchu. Lipoftsof® wrote to the British and Foreign Bible Society in London asking if they would print and his work, his idea being that as the Manchus were the rulers of China, the Christianization of that country would be best accomplished by approach through the Manchus.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.