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His colleague William Milne, after a short time with Morrison in Canton, continued translation, preaching, and educational work in Malacca, far from the prying eyes of Qing secret police. 1948.

Morrison, Eliza, Kidd, Samuel, and Morrison, Robert. While acknowledging Morrison’s ongoing agony over both the crushing work load entailed by employment with the EIC and the frustrations he felt at being associated with an enterprise which did not have the interests either of the Gospel or of the Chinese at heart, others accept at face value Morrison’s belief that he had no choice but to use his service to the Company as his principal means of support and only legal means of living in China.

Both aspects of this have been challenged, however.

Morrison produced a Chinese translation of the New Testament in 1813, and with his collaborator Dr. Milne, a translation of the entire Bible in 1821. To cite this article click here for a list of acceptable citing formats.The history of earlier contributions by wikipedians is accessible to researchers here:

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The next year, he went to Mr. David Bogue's Academy in Gosport for further training. Morrison tried unsuccessfully to adapt to Chinese customs. He was, after all, a Christian missionary, convinced that all peoples and cultures need the Gospel.

He was a man whose broad-minded grasp of the complexities both of China itself and of any effective methods of reaching its people with the Gospel opened a path and set a pattern for thousands of others, down to the present.

Some questions

Critics, then and now, have questioned the wisdom of Morrison’s connection with the East India Company.

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Translations from the original Chinese, with Notes. Canton, China: printed by order of the Select Committee, at the Hon East India Company's press, by P.P. Thoms, 1815. Others followed the same course, laboring among the numerous Chinese population in South East Asia for decades, until the treaties imposed by the Western powers after two wars blasted open China’s doors to residence by merchants and missionaries alike.

Binding himself to the EIC meant that Morrison had to live separately from his wife for half the year; it strained his health by forcing him to do his translation at night; and it tainted him - and the Western missionary movement - with the brush of both opium and gunboats from then until now.

Morrison attached himself to the EIC in order to obtain legal residence in China.

This same confidence in God’s benign, sovereign purposes fortified him against the awful losses of his beloved wife Mary and his close friend and colleague, William Milne. In three parts : Part 1: Chinese and English arranged according to the radicals ; Part 2: Chinese and English arranged alphabetically ; Part 3: English and Chinese.

Dialogues and Detached Sentences in the Chinese Language: With a Free and Verbal Translation in English. collected from various sources, designed as an initiatory work for the use of students of Chinese.

6 v ; 30 cm. In Canton City he learned the Chinese language from a student named Yong Sam-tak. Liang was one of the Society's first converts. He wanted to become a missionary and in 1801, he started learning Latin, Greek, and Hebrew in private, but his parents were opposed to the idea.

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Lovett, Richard. folio BS315.C57 L8 1812 }

Exodus. [n.p. He found the Chinese government hostile, but learned Chinese and acquired permission to reside in China as a Chinese Secretary and Translator of the East India Company.