The Publishing Hoose, 



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rcsembles, began his work in Singapore as 

 a prmthig missionary. Thc press was first 

 i- « lld 1 the "Amclia Bishnp Prcss." U luis 

 sincc grown to large proportions, and now 

 employs from thirty to forty mcn. 



Mr. Shcllabear produced much of the 

 literature whicli he printed. Somc of his 

 dictionaries, vocabu1aries, text-books, and 

 religious works are amongst thc most 

 widety used m all this country. Amongst 

 other products he has translated some 

 hymns with exqnisite grace and dcticacy. 

 F Tis traiislation of "Jesus, Lover of My 

 Soul," is as fme a Malay hymn as has ever 

 been written. Ile has for several years 

 bcen cngaged by the British and Forcigu 

 Rible Society in revising the New Testa- 

 ment Scriptures, and is now engaged upon 

 thc Old Testament. His latest work, "The 

 1'ilgrim's Progrcss," in Baba Malay, is pcr- 

 haps the most notable recent additiou to the 

 Christian litcrature of this community. 



The Singapore Press is now managed 

 by the Rev. W. T. Cherry, a painstaking 

 and faitiiful missionary, who is so progress- 

 ive as to have actually hnported a lino- 

 type machine. and has beglin to illustrale 



