INTRODUCTION \n
PREFACE \n
I. THE ANCESTRAL HOME \n
II. CALL TO CHINA AND VOYAGE HENCE \n
III. THE CITY OF THE “ELEGANT GATE” \n
DESCRIPTION OF AMOY AND AMOY ISLAND \n
ANCESTRAL WORSHIP \n
INFANTICIDE \n
IS CHINA TO BE WON, AND HOW? \n
WORSHIP OF THE EMPEROR \n
IV. LIGHT AND SHADE \n
THE CHIANG-CHIU VALLEY \n
BREAKING AND BURNING OF IDOLS \n
THE CHINESE BOAT RACE AND ITS ORIGIN \n
THE CHINESE BEGGAR SYSTEM \n
TWO NOBLE MEN SUMMONED HENCE \n
V. AT THE FOOT OF THE BAMBOOS \n
OPIUM \n
ROMANIZED COLLOQUIAL \n
CHINESE SENSE OF SIN \n
PRIMITIVE LAMPSZEALOUS CONVERTS \n
THE TERM QUESTION \n
WHAT IT COSTS A CHINESE TO BECOME A CHRISTIAN \n
PERSECUTED FOR CHRIST’S SAKE \n
“HE IS ONLY A BEGGAR” \n
PRINTING UNDER DIFFICULTIES \n
CARRIER PIGEONS \n
VI. THE “LITTLE KNIFE” INSURRECTION \n
THE “LITTLE KNIFE” INSURRECTION \n
HOW THE CHINESE FIGHT \n
VII. THE BLOSSOMING DESERT \n
SI-BOO’S ZEAL \n
AN APPEAL FOR A MISSIONARY \n
VIII. CHURCH UNION \n
THE MEMORIAL OF THE AMOY MISSION \n
IX. CHURCH UNION (CONTINUED) \n
X. THE ANTI-MISSIONARY AGITATION \n
XI. THE LAST TWO DECADES \n
FORTY CONTINUOUS YEARS IN HEATHENISM \n
CHINESE GRANDILOQUENCE \n
XII. IN MEMORIAM \n
DR. TALMAGE—THE MAN \n
BY REV. W. S. SWANSON, D.D. \n
DR. TALMAGE—THE MISSIONARY \n
BY REV. W. S. SWANSON, D.D. \n
VENERABLE TEACHER TALMAGE \n
TRIBUTE OF PASTOR IAP HAN CHIONG \n
REV. JOHN VAN NEST TALMAGE, D.D. \n
BY REV. S. L. BALDWIN, D.D. \n
THE REV. J. V. N. TALMAGE, D.D. \n
BY REV. TALBOT W. CHAMBERS, D.D., LL.D. \n
REV. JOHN VAN NEST TALMAGE, D.D. \n
BY REV. JOHN M. FERRIS, D.D. \n
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