United States -- Description and travel; Voyages and travels
SAILING OF THE CHINESE SAILORS, BELONGING TO THE COCHIN CHINA JUNK.--The
return of the Chinese sailors to their native land, in the bark Candace,
Capt. Gardiner, on Monday, the 4th of October, having been arranged by
the owners of the Chinese junk, they all attended the Floating Church of
this city, on the preceding Sunday afternoon. It was interesting to see
them there with the large number of other sailors who were then present,
as some of them must come within the range of Bishop Boone's mission on
their return to Shang-Hai,--and the impression of the church services
could not fail of being remembered, and of producing a solemn effect on
their minds. They were accompanied by Mr. Lin-King-Chew, a devoted
Christian, as far as he understands Christianity, having
embraced our religion through the instrumentality of some faithful
missionary in his native land. His efforts in behalf of his countrymen,
were chiefly directed to their spiritual welfare. He presented each of
them a Testament in their own language, a portion of which he daily read
and explained to them, while they were boarding at the Sailor's Home.
Mr. Lin-King-Chew is a Chinese gentleman of education, and of
distinction and property in his own country, who has been in New York
about two months, learning our language, and who, since their
difficulties, has very much interested himself in their welfare. Capt.
and Mrs. Richardson, of the New York Sailor's Home in Cherry street,
where they have been residing the last three weeks, at their request
also accompanied them. From the paternal and maternal care they have
experienced from them, they have expressed themselves, through their
interpreter, in strong terms of gratitude. After divine service, Rev.
Mr. Parker, the chaplain, presented each of them, 26 in number, with the
Protestant Churchman of April, 1845, which contains two beautiful wood
cuts, originally engraved for the Ladies' Magazine, of a view of the
exterior and interior of the Ploating Church of this city, accompanied
by an extended description of the Floating Church, and the efforts
making in the Episcopal Church throughout America for the spiritual
benefit of seamen. It was an impressive reflection, said Rev. Mr.
Parker, (in a short statement he made to the congregation, after the
benediction,) of the present circumstances of the interesting strangers
who were then present, and who were to leave our shores on, the morrow,
in the ship that lay alongside of the Floating Church, where they were,
for cities under our feet on the other side of the globe, that though
they saw before them persons who excited a deep curiosity, from their
peculiar complexion, mode of dress and physiognomy, that they belonged
to a race which, in numbers, at the present time, equalled one-third of
the whole population of our earth.
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