The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1845-01-31
CHINA.

We copy from the New York Courier the fol-
lowing additional items of Chinese intelligence
received by the late arrival at that port:
A correspondent Of the Friend Of China OF
September 4, gives an. account Of the baptism by
the American missi onaries of ten Cinnamon, who
had renounced the supersttions Of Their own re-
ligion and embraced Christianity. Seven were
baptized by Rev. Mr. Shuck, of whom five had
been Ccnfuconists, and two Budhlsts; and three
by ReviMr Dean. Two of them are men of high
literary attainments; aud the whole have been for
long time under close Christian nstructon.-
The same paper says that two small churches OF
native Christians have been formed in Hong Kong,
one composed of those who speak the Canton dia-
lect, under the pastoral care Of the Rev. MIR.
Shuck, and the other Of Teichew men, under the
pastoral care of the Rev. Mr.. Dean, and adds that
the efforts of these worthy men to disseminate
religion among the millions Of China is worthy
the support of the phianthropic Of every name.
The Hong Kong Gazette, of September 2i, con-
tains the following:
"AMERIcANTRADEw wITHCHINA we learn
from private letters lately received by gentleman
here, that the merchants in the United States
accustomed tt send goods to China, have engaged
the whole Of the cotton goods adapted for that
market that can be manufactured from the lst June
to the end Of October"
Mr. Gutzlaff, formerly missionary in China, has
abandoned this employment, and become an assist
ant police magistrate in Hong Kong.
The subscription to build new chapel for the
American Baptist Mission, in place of the one
taken down by the British has been well supported;
and the mission will lose nothing by the exchange.
The British authorities gave site for the new
building
Referring 10 the vast field for missionary labor
which has been opened by the recent treaties with
China, New York paper says:
.sWhen DR.. Morrison, but few years since, was
pursuing his solitary abors Cor the good OF China,
il was made capital offence, by an imperial edct,
to seek access to the Chinese as missionary All
intercourse between Christians and the millions of
that land was restricted to fen hundred feet along
the margin of single city. But recent occurren-
ces have throw open FIVE large cities, with their
neighborho oods, to foreign intercourse.
"As an important result Of the late treaty stipu-
lations, the missionary will have access to vast
multitudes. The numbers accessible at one of
these ponts-Amoy-not the largest, either Of the
five cities, are thus described: If the cities of
Boston, New York, Philadelphia aud Baltimore,
were situated in valley, forty miles long and ten
or fifteen broad, and the whole intervening coun-
try was so thirkly covered with villages, that a
man should never be out Of sight of one or more
of them, still the population of that valley would
not be rs great as is the population Of this part of
China
"The providence of God is thus sgnally over
ruling the collision between China and England,
for the furtherance of the work Of missions. So
that the pioneers of missionary enterprise have not
stood waiting and praying at the door of China in
VAN. But the way is now fully prepared for a
wide expansion of liberality and christian effort in
her behalf And christian philanthropists surely
cannot fail promptly to fall in with these arrange
uenfs of Heaven"