From tHe "Norta-Cutwa Dany News," or NovEMBER 15, 1869
We have not space to comment at length today on the proceedings at the last meeting of the Municipal Council, but we must express satisfaction thai the plot of open land adjoining the present Municipal premises has been purchased at a reasonable rate. It is admirably situated for Municipal purposes, and there is little danger that ihe purchase will be rejected by the land renters, although it has been made without their special authorization. of his work without including the task that before all else he set hi self to accomplish, the task of giving ihe Chinese the Bible in their own longue. That task he was enabled by God to carry to a successful conclusion, and that is what we should bear in mind when we think of Morrison today. It is what he himself desired. "By the Chinese Bible, he said, "when dead, I shall yet speak." So Britain sent the Bible to China."
During these days of stress and strain, of hatred and bitter estrangement, to be engaged in a labour which breaks down national and racial barriers and makes one community of all the nations of the earth is to be engaged in real creative work. We would ask you therefore to continue to pray for us and to share with us the responsibility as well as the joy of distributing God's Word and of making known the Good News throughout this great country
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.