Excerpt from The Mission Press in China, Being a Jubilee Retrospect of the American Presbyterian Mission Press: With Sketches of Other Mission Presses in China, as Well as Accounts of the Bible and Tract Societies at Work in China Again in 1842 Mr. Lowrie writes As soon as the present commotion [war with China] is over, books to some extent will be wanted, and if China be thrown open books to a great extent will he wanted, and now is the time to prepare for that state of things. Later in the same year, in another letter, we read I look with great interest to the Press, and this is an establishment that cannot be brought into existence in a day, many months and it may be years [will be necessary] to get ready. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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