Robert Morrison
When Morrison was asked shortly after his arrival in China if he expected to have any spiritual impact on the Chinese, he answered, "No sir, but I expect God will!"
A portrait of Robert Morrison by John Wildman
- Born on 1782 January 5, in Morpeth, Northumberland, England
- Died on 1834 August 1 (age 52), in Canton, Guangdong, China
- The first Protestant missionary in China (1807)
- Wrote the first Chinese-English, English-Chinese dictionary (1815-1823)
- With William Milne, first translated the Bible into Chinese (finished 1819)
- Founded (with Milne) the Anglo-Chinese College in Malacca (1818)
- Established a public dispensary in Macau (1820)
His prayer was that God would station him in that part of the missionary field where the difficulties were greatest, and, to all human appearances, the most insurmountable.
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