g6 Kenneth S. Latourette, 



Bible.®*' The chapel formerly occupied by the factory of the 

 East India Company was obtained and the congregations 

 increased somewhat.''' Williams, whom they feared would be 

 transferred to Singapore, still stayed on, busy with his press. ®^ 

 Language study and printing were quietly pursued, but no dis- 

 turbances or new enterprises marked the year. 



The year was made noteworthy, however, by the entrance of 

 the American Baptist Board upon the Canton work. The pos- 

 sibilities of missions for the Chinese were becoming increasingly 

 attractive to American churches. The Presbyterian and Dutch 

 Reformed bodies, which had thus far acted with the American 

 Board, were beginning to talk of independent action.®^ In April 

 and May, 1836, the Missionary Lyceum of Wesleyan University, 

 at Middletown, Connecticut, brought strongly to the attention of 

 the Methodist Missionary Society the needs of China, and pre- 

 liminary steps were taken to raise money for a mission there.'" 

 The first organization to take definite action, however, to join 

 the American Board in its work was the Baptist Society. This 

 had sent out its first missionary to the Chinese, Rev. William 

 Dean, in 1834,'^ but he had settled in Bangkok. Its first mis- 

 sionaries to China proper. Rev. J. Lewis Shuck and his wife, 

 Henrietta Hall Shuck, arrived there September, 1836.'^^ Mr, and 

 Mrs. Shuck were Virginians and introduced a new element into 

 the rather conservative northern missionary body at Canton. 

 They left Boston, September 22d, 1835,^^ stopped for a time at 



** Bridgman, Life of Bridgman, p. 100. 



*' Corres. of A. B. C. F. M., China, 1831-7, No. 123, Bridgman to Ander- 

 son, Jan. 29, 1836. 



*^ Ibid., No. II, April 3, 1835, Williams and Bridgman to Anderson, 

 and No. 13, Sept. 8, 1836, the Alission to Anderson. 



°Mbid., Letter of Abeel to Anderson, July 23, 1835, told of the difficulties 

 on this score. 



™ Missions and Missionar}^ Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 

 by J. M. Reid, revised and extended by J. T. Gracej^ 3 v.. New York, 

 c. 1895. 1:411; 412. The project for a mission to China rested until 

 after 1844. 



'^ Dean, China Mission, p. 95. 



"J. B. Jeter, Memoir of Airs. Henrietta Shuck, The First American 

 Female Missionary to China, Boston, 1846, p. 221. 



" Ibid., p. 40. 



