I20 Kenneth S. Latourette, 



tionary effects were experienced in the amount of trade as were 

 felt in the method of conducting it or in missionary operations 

 and diplomatic relations. 



The effects of the treaty of Nanking on missions were revolu- 

 tionary. The interest aroused through the missionary world by 

 the war had been far greater than that in the commercial world, 

 and when the progress of events made it certain that some of 

 the old restrictions would be withdrawn the greatest enthusiasm 

 followed. Boone, of the Episcopal board, wrote in June, 1841 : 

 "There is but one single barrier to the establishment of ... . 

 missions among these millions . . . . [of] heathen and that 

 barrier of a political nature, which may be removed in a day, 

 and which will probably break down upon the demise of some 

 monarch, perhaps of the present, if indeed the English do not 

 throw open to our residence before the current year is past, cities 

 whose inhabitants will outnumber all the inhabitants of our 

 Atlantic cities put together.'""' Bridgman wrote three weeks 

 later: "Full toleration [of Christianity] will come sooner or 

 later."" 



With the expectation of an open China came the determination 

 to throw in reenforcements. Those who had worked among the 

 Chinese colonists prepared to transfer their operations to the 

 Empire. Missionaries followed hard on the heels of the British 

 army and entered the ports almost as soon as they were captured. 

 Boone and Abeel moved to Amoy in February, 1842.*'- In 

 February and March of that year Shuck and Roberts established 

 a Baptist mission on the Island of Hongkong, began to build 

 chapels, and organized a church.^'' In 1841 Ball moved from 

 Singapore to Macao, and in 1843 to Hongkong.''* With the sign- 

 ing of the treaty between China and Great Britain, August 29, 

 1842, the former enthusiasm was intensified. Shuck wrote his 



J. D. DeBow, Statistical View of the United States .... being a 

 compendium of the seventh census. Washington, 1854, p. 188. 



""Spirit of Missions, 6:366. 



''^ Missny. Herald, 38:101, letter of Bridgman, Macao, July i, 1841. 

 See also letters of Parker and Bridgman in Ibid., 37 : 43. 



""Spirit of Missions, 7:310. Williams, Mid. King., 2:338. 



•^Baptist Missny. Mag., 23:21. Niles Register, 65:68, Sept. 30, 1843. 



"^ Dean, The China Alission, p. 196. 



