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Preaching a sermon with etymology


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From "A Mission in China", W. E. Soothill (1907).

 

His account of a Wenzhounese preacher teaching a sermon to the locals in his own style.  If the name Soothill sounds familiar, it's because he wrote "The Student's Pocket Chinese Dictionary" which taught a generation of scholars. He was also the first person to devise a romanization system for the Wenzhounese language. He was quite a learned man and became professor of Chinese at Oxford. The photo of his church in the frontispiece of his book looks exactly the same today, I rode past it last week on my ebike. 

 

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