Forty Years in South China - The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D.

Project Gutenberg's Forty Years in South China, by Rev. John Gerardus FaggThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: Forty Years in South China The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D.Author: Rev. John Gerardus FaggRelease Date: March 28, 2004 [EBook #11754]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FORTY YEARS IN SOUTH CHINA ***Produced by David Newman in honor of Barbara Talmage Griffin (1918-2004), great-granddaughter of the subject of thisbiography.FORTY YEARS IN SOUTH CHINAThe Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D.byRev. John Gerardus FaggMissionary of the American Reformed (Dutch) Church, at Amoy, China1894INTRODUCTION.BY REV. T. DE WITT TALMAGE, D.D.Too near was I to the subject of this biography to write an impartial introduction. When John Van Nest Talmage went, mylast brother went. Stunned until I staggered through the corridors of the hotel in London, England, when the news camethat John was dead. If I should say all that I felt I would declare that since Paul the great apostle to the Gentiles, a morefaithful or consecrated man has not lifted his voice in the dark places of heathenism. I said it while he was alive, andmight as well say it now that he is dead. "He was the hero of our family." He did not go to a ...