Minute of the Committee of the Church Missionary Society on the present state and future prospects of China

[London] : Church Missionary Society, 1853. T. C. Johns, Printer. Octavo, pamphlet, self-wrappers (lightly foxed), pp. 15; [blank].

An appeal for additional resources (funds and missionaries) to extend the work of the Church Missionary Society into the interior of China, with greater access now granted to the missionaries. It notes ‘We have never had more than three Missionaries at any one station’ and We have never approached more than three of the five free ports, besides a Missionary tutor at St. Paul’s College, Hong Kong – we have usually had only one Missionary’.

The work of Protestant missionaries in China greatly expanded after the First Opium War (1839 – 1842) with the annexation of Hong Kong by Great Britain and the establishment of free ports in Canton, Shanghai, Ningbo, Fuzhou, and Xiamen (Amoy). The CMS missionaries assisted in establishing St. Paul’s College, Hong Kong in 1849, it opened in 1851 and is the oldest continuously operated school in Hong Kong.

Very rare, with no copies located on OCLC.