...millions, they themselves approach us by their embassy, saying through the chief ambassador, "China invites your missionaries. She tells them to plant...shining cross on every hill and in every valley." Strange words are these for the envoy of a pagan monarch. Your Committee echo the words of the Prudential...

...millions, they themselves approach us by their embassy, saying through the chief ambassador, ' China invites your missionaries. She tells them to plant...shining cross on every hill and in every valley.' Strange words are these for the envoy of a pagan monarch. Your Committee echo the words of the Prudential...

...your merchants, she invites your missionaries, and tells them to plant the shining cross on ever)- hill and in every valley, for she is hospitable to fair argument. She offers you almost free trade to-day, holding the great staples of the earth, — tea and silk ;...

...strike off the shackles from trade. She invites your merchants, she invites your missionaries, and tells them to plant the shining cross on every hill...every valley, for she is hospitable to fair argument. She offers you almost free trade to-day. Holding the great staples of the earth — tea and silk, she...

...we have Mr. Burlingame's opinion, and he knows them well. In a speech at New York, he said, " China invites your missionaries. She tells them to plant...shining cross on every hill and in every valley." Let us admit that this is somewhat oratorical. Perhaps the truth lies between. There is the jealousy...

...Pekiu University points his moral. In glowing language be declares that China invites Christendom " to plant the shining cross on every hill and in every valley of her broad domain." I hold with him that China is progressing. Bu the case is not such as persons...

...Pékin University points his moral. In glowing language he declares that China invites Christendom " to plant the shining cross on every hill and in every valley of her broad domain." I hold with him that China is progressing. Bu the case is not such as persons...

...invites your merchants, she invites your missionaries, aud tells them to plant the shining cross on even- hill and in every valley, for she is hospitable to fair argument. She offers you almost free trade to-day, holding the great staples of the earth, tea and silk; she...

...Peking University points his moral. In glowing language he declares that China invites Christendom "to plant the shining cross on every hill and in every valley of her broad domain." I hold with him that China is progressing. But the case is not such as persons...

...York by the Governor o'f that state, when he asserted that China was ready to invite the missionaries to " plant the shining cross on every hill and in every valley," and to engage Western engineers to open mines and build railways ; and that she had entered on the...