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Updated: June 23, 2025

The more I meditate on what they said and wrote and did and suffered in the early days of that work, and see whereunto it is growing, the more am I impressed with the fact that they were wonderful men, just the men for the time, place, and circumstances, and therefore evidently God's gift. "Dr. Abeel was the pioneer of the Amoy Mission.

John Gerardus Fagg - Forty Years in South China: The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D.

The scarcity of girls in nearly all the towns and villages and the exorbitant rates demanded for marriageable daughters in some districts, only render sad confirmation to what Drs. Abeel and Talmage wrote two score and more years ago. Mr. Talmage continues: "I cannot close this letter without saying a word in reference to our prospects of success.

John Gerardus Fagg - Forty Years in South China: The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D.

So for laying the foundation and shaping the plan of the structure He would have us erect at Amoy He gave us three men, just the men needed for the work,-David Abeel, William J. Pohlman and Elihu Doty.

John Gerardus Fagg - Forty Years in South China: The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D.

The only highways to the far East were by way of the Cape of Good Hope or Cape Horn. The voyages were always long and often perilous. When on board the ship Roman, bound for Canton, David Abeel wrote: "To the missionary perhaps exclusively, is the separation from friends like the farewell of death. Though ignorant of the future he expects no further intercourse on earth.

John Gerardus Fagg - Forty Years in South China: The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D.