Robert Morrison – A Master Builder by Marshall Broomhall

A biography of the Presbyterian Missionary to Macao, Bible translator and Lexicographer Robert Morrison by the Editorial Secretary of the China Inland Mission. My thanks to Redcliffe College for providing a copy of this public domain title for digitisation.

Marshall Broomhall [1866-1937], Robert Morrison, A Master Builder. London: China Inland Mission, 1924. Hbk. pp.238. [Click to visit the Robert Morrison page for the download link for this title and others]

Contents

• Author’s Preface
• Table of Dates

1. The Great Closed Land
2. A Great Tribulation and a Little Child
3. The Hidden Man of the Heart
4. High Employ
5. The Call of China
6. The Voyage
7. Old Canyon
8. Facing Life’s Task
9. Some Momentous Decisions
10. Overlapping Extraordinary
11. A Colleague at Last
12. The Ultra-Ganges Mission
13. Dismissed but Indispensible
14. Lonely and in Constant Apprehension
15. An Iona in the East
16. Translating the Scriptures
17. Sorrow Upon Sorrow
18. An International Impasse
19. The Great Fire
20. After Fifteen Years
21. Two Years in England
22. In Stress and Storm
23. All Manner of Service
24. Missionary Reinforcement
25. A Painful Parting
26. Faithful unto Death
27. Unfading Glory
28. Epilogue
29. Appendices
30. Index

Author’s Preface

“The pioneer is forgotten” wrote Robert Morrison in a fit of depression. To him in his lonely post it seemed so, but the statement is not true for all time. The pioneer, like the prophet, may be despised or even slain by his contemporaries, but posterity will build his tomb. In Morrison’s case he lived to be honoured beyond most missionaries, and time has only added lustre to his name.

It is fitting that his life and work should be again recalled, for a new and promising chapter in the evangelization of China has commenced. The Christian Church which Morrison set forth to found in the land of Sinim has lately claimed the right to administer her own affairs where able to do so. The great gulf between a land with no followers of Christ – we speak of the Protestant Church alone – and a land with a Church strong enough to desire self-government, has, thank God, been bridged. On the one side of that great span stands Morrison, the dauntless master-builder, and on the other side the first National Christian Conference which met at Shanghai less than two years ago.

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