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Price One Shilling; or, extra gilt, One Shilling and Sixpence.

BINDING OF THE JUVENILE INSTRUCTOR

FOR 1874.

A GREEN CLOTH COVER for binding the Year's Numbers of the In structor, has been prepared by Messrs. Kelly and Sons. The price of the Cover only is 4d., or the Numbers will be bound in it for 6d.; o bound and returned free on receipt of Eight stamps.

All communications, orders, and parcels must be addressed to Messrs. KELLY and SONS, Water Street, Arundel Street, Strand, London, W.C.

DISSOLVING VIEWS.

THE Society's Series of Dissolving Views may be had, for exhibition by the Associations in London and its vicinity, on application to Messrs NEWTON and Co., Opticians, 3, Fleet Street, Temple Bar, E.C.

[These Views cannot be taken beyond the London District.]

THE CHINESE MISSION. Chapter III.-The Religions

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OUR MISSIONARY AFTERNOON. (With Illustration)
STORY OF A SUTTEE. (With Illustration)

EASTER HYMN. (With Music) .

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MSS. and all Communications to be addressed to the Edito Missionary House, Salisbury Square, London.

JUVENILE INSTRUCTOR VOL. FOR

A CHEAP EDITION of the above, in Paper Covers, can be pu the Society's House, price Sixpence, post free Three Half-peng

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THE CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCI

Birthday Gifts for the Society will be gladly received by th They may be made payable to E. HUTCHINSON, Esq., Church M House, Salisbury Square, and will be acknowledged on the Cove Green Book.

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CHURCH MISSIONARY HOUSE.

In reply to the numerous inquiries we have received about Waste Paper, we beg to inform our friends that if they will forward it to Messrs. SPICER BROTHERS, Paper Makers, 19, New Bridge Street, London, that firm will give the full market price for the various sorts, and either remit the proceeds to the sender, or to us, as may be desired.

Messrs. SPICER BROTHERS will supply Bags for packing the Paper on receipt of postage stamps for one shilling for each bag which deposit will be retained while the bag is in use.

In every case the full name and address of the sender must be written on the back of the label of each bag.

Note the Address: Messrs. Spicer Brothers, Paper Makers 19, New Bridge Street, London.

We believe that a large sum might be raised by the Sale of
Waste Paper.

BODL LIBR

23. AUG. 1913

THE CHINESE MISSION.

IV. THE LANGUAGE OF CHINA.

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HEN the missionary reaches a heathen land, and sees its

people wholly given

to idolatry, he longs

to tell them at once his message from the true God, but this he is not able to do. His language is strange to the people, and some

times he must spend many months in patient study before he can make himself understood. This is especially the case with missionaries to China. The language of the Chinese is quite unlike any other in the world, and it is very hard to learn. Many sounds are quite different from ours; for

instance, how could you say such words as ng, ngo? They have

also many different ways of saying the same word, and each sound has its own meaning. You would think the syllable pang is simple to pronounce, but it is spoken in many different ways, and may mean either a room, a bee, a club, a seam, or a sail. You can imagine how carefully the missionary must learn the language before he makes out these differences.

And even when he knows the language spoken in the town where he first arrives, he cannot talk with people living in other parts of the country; for there are about two hundred dialects spoken in China. Starting one evening in his boat from a town where he can teach the people in their own language, the MAY, 1875.

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