Книга: Griffith John «A journal of the life, travels, and labours in the work of the ministry»
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Griffith John
Griffith John (
Missionary career
John was born at
He was brought up a Congregationalist, and at the age of eight was admitted to full membership of his chapel. When only fourteen he delivered his first sermon at a prayer meeting; at sixteen he became a regular preacher, and was subsequently trained at the Brecon Congregational College for the ministry. In 1853 he offered his services to the London Missionary Society, and after two years' training sailed for Shanghai in 1855. An inveterate itinerator, he became well known for his extensive missionary journeys into the Chinese interior - journeys that sometimes stretched to 5,000 km or more. He was among the first to begin
In 1861 he went from
In 1890 he was a founding member of the Permanent Committee for the Promotion of Anti-
He acquired an intimate knowledge of the Chinese language and literature, and translated the New Testament and a great part of the Old into more than one Chinese dialect. John wrote a Mandarin translation of the
Works
* John, Griffith (1907). [http://ebook.lib.hku.hk/CTWE/B3659880X/ A Voice from China] London: James Clarke &Co. -University of Hong Kong Libraries, Digital Initiatives, China Through Western Eyes
References
Further reading
*1911|article=Griffith John|url=http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Griffith_John
*R. Wardlaw Thompson, "Griffith John: The story of fifty years in China", London, 1906
*Noel Gibbard, "Griffith John: Apostle to Central China", Bridgend, 1998.
*"Hudson Taylor & China’s Open Century Volume Six: Assault on the Nine";
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Источник: Griffith John
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