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1870年,监理会在苏州开创了教会事业。在此后的几十年间,监理会在苏州的传教事业是成功的。这些年的成功归因于监理会亲和地方社会,由此赢得苏州社会各阶层的好感,也得到包括两江总首刘坤一、江苏巡抚恩寿、江苏巡抚鹿传麟等在内的地方官员的大力支持;归因于提高“自养”水平,努力不依赖母会的拨款;归因于“本色化”努力,传教之初就提出教会在华的领导权迟早得移交给华人。监理会的这些活动产生了有利于传教的影响。晚清美国监理会在苏州的传教活动对中国基督教区域传教史的研究有一定的典型意义。
In 1870, the Supervisory Board opened the church in Suzhou. In the decades that followed, the Commission’s missionary work in Suzhou was successful. The success of these years was attributed to the visit of the Supervisory Commission to the local community, which won the goodwill of all walks of life in Suzhou and the local officials including heads of the two rivers, Liu Kunyi, Jiangsu’s governor, longevity, and Jiangsu governor Lu Chuanlin. Strongly supported; due to raising the level of “self-support” and working hard not to rely on funding from the mother society; due to the “naturalization” efforts, the missionary leadership at the beginning of the mission proposed that the leadership of the church in China be handed over to the Chinese sooner or later. These activities of the Supervisory Commission have had an impact on preaching. In the late Qing Dynasty, the mission of the United States Supervisory Commission in Suzhou was of typical significance for the study of the missionary history in China’s Christian region.