Manchoukuo Bandits Kill Masterly Paper Japanese Settlers Attar the platform had been eleared of the various properties, Dr. J. J, Meoron read a masterly paper on Lessons from the. Pioneer Mission= aries in Shantung." Dr, Heeren is professor of history in Chocloo versity, and he had brought all his istorian's training 9 the preparation of. this Teeture.
"Pioneers and frontiers go tom gether," said" Dr. Heeren, and he proceeded to show how the Presby-{erian vanguard, Nevius, Mateer and Corbett came to this missionary tron-tier 75 yours ayo, They came from ploncoring country, for the United Statex was at that lime still extending hor frontiers westward, so that they Drought with them the fine spirit of adventure and hardihood which con-
or spiritual ers new territory, whether physical 'Although other American mission aries worked in Shantung in those early days, yet, almost all resigned, moved {o other places or died, except the three whom Dr, Heeren called "the Shantung 'Triumvirate.' "John Livingstone" Nevius, Calvin' Wilson Mateer and unter, Corbett. These three men Inid the foundations upon which the Christian church in. this province has been built.
When Mr. and Mrs, Nevius reached China in 1958, there were probably Tess thin 100 Protestant missionaries inv the whole Empire, while in Shi there were none at all. Eight yours later, in June 1861, when this couple reached Chefoo, four Presbyterious, the Rev. and Mrs. Samuel Gayley and the Rev. and Mrs, J. A. Danforth, and four Baptists, the Rev. and Mes. J, B. Hartness and the Rev.
rs. J.T, Holmes had already ced to "work, having arrived same year, Tk was not that Messrs, Mater mn orhett reached Shantuns. a Nevius. travel ordinary wind-jammer, of Lid tons, sailing from New York, round the Cape Hope, dieres the © Indian awl the China Sea to Shang aking about si months on the commodation and the Toil were so bill that long before they reached: their destination Mes.
is was fervently longing for a ship.
Opposition {9 Foreigners Where did these people find a home after braving the trials ong journey in those days? The opposition and hostility. to foreigners was such that no one woul rent or sell them either houses or land, nor would any carpenter, mason oF artisan work for them. "At length, three families, the Mills, Mateers and Cor~
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