Forty Years in South China: The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D.
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Chapters (51)
- INTRODUCTION.
- PREFACE.
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- CONTENTS
- I. THE ANCESTRAL HOME
- II. CALL TO CHINA AND VOYAGE HENCE
- III. THE CITY OF THE "ELEGANT GATE"[*]
- DESCRIPTION OF AMOY AND AMOY ISLAND
- ANCESTRAL WORSHIP
- INFANTICIDE
- IS CHINA TO BE WON, AND HOW?
- WORSHIP OF THE EMPEROR.
- IV. LIGHT AND SHADE.
- THE CHIANG-CHIU VALLEY.
- BREAKING AND BURNING OF IDOLS.
- THE CHINESE BOAT RACE AND ITS ORIGIN.
- THE CHINESE BEGGAR SYSTEM.
- TWO NOBLE MEN SUMMONED HENCE.
- V. AT THE FOOT OF THE BAMBOOS
- OPIUM.
- ROMANIZED COLLOQUIAL.
- CHINESE SENSE OF SIN.
- PRIMITIVE LAMPS
- ZEALOUS CONVERTS.
- THE TERM QUESTION.
- WHAT IT COSTS A CHINESE TO BECOME A CHRISTIAN.
- PERSECUTED FOR CHRIST'S SAKE.
- "HE IS ONLY A BEGGAR."
- PRINTING UNDER DIFFICULTIES.
- CARRIER PIGEONS.
- VI. THE "LITTLE KNIFE" INSURRECTION
- THE "LITTLE KNIFE" INSURRECTION.
- HOW THE CHINESE FIGHT.
- VII. THE BLOSSOMING DESERT.
- SI-BOO'S ZEAL.
- AN APPEAL FOR A MISSIONARY.
- VIII. CHURCH UNION.
- IX. CHURCH UNION (CONTINUED).
- X. THE ANTI-MISSIONARY AGITATION.
- XI. THE LAST TWO DECADES.
- FORTY CONTINUOUS YEARS IN HEATHENISM.
- "AUGUST 8, 1877.
- CHINESE GRANDILOQUENCE.
- XII. IN MEMORIAM.
- DR. TALMAGE-THE MAN.
- DR. TALMAGE-THE MISSIONARY.
- VENERABLE TEACHER TALMAGE.
- REV. JOHN VAN NEST TALMAGE, D.D.
- THE REV. J. V. N. TALMAGE, D.D..
- REV. JOHN VAN NEST TALMAGE, D.D.
- APPENDIX.
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