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Records of the General Conference of the Protestant Missionaries of China held at Shanghai, May 10-24, 1877 This book, "Records of the General Conference of the Protestant Missionaries of China", by Matthew Tyson Yates, is a replication of a book originally published before 1878. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible.
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Yates was born on January 8, 1819 in Wake County, North Carolina, the son of William and Delilah Yates. His father was a farmer, none too prosperous, and Matthew, the second of ten children, spent the first nineteen years of his life in the paternal home, helping from the time he was old enough to do so in the varied manual labor of the farm. The home was a devout one, and his father, a deacon in a Baptist church, kept open house to the traveling preachers of that fellowship.
Prepared at Wake Forest Hill Academy, Yates entered Wake Forest College and graduated in 1846. He was not brilliant as a student and was forced to devote much of his time to earning a livelihood, but he was a conscientious and persistent worker.
Before graduation Yates had finally determined to be a missionary. Accordingly he applied to the Foreign Mission Board of the southern Baptist Convention and was appointed to China. On October 18, 1847 he was ordained, and soon thereafter he sailed with his bride for China, arriving in Shanghai in 1847. Here he was the pioneer of his society, although within a few weeks he and his wife were joined by two other couples. The future commercial metropolis of China had only recently been opened to foreign residents, thus during most of his career Yates was laying foundations. The task was not easy. He found his eyes unequal to the strain of reading the written Chinese characters, but he became a master of the Shanghai colloquial dialect and greatly enjoyed preaching in it. In the decade after his arrival a band of rebels captured the native city and the property and work of the mission suffered; then came the American Civil War and for years, during the conflict and much of the Reconstruction period, he received no assistance from home. For twenty years or so he was without a foreign colleague; from 1869 to 1876 his voice failed and he was unable to preach. Yet during the years of adversity he supported himself and his family by acting as interpreter to the municipal council of the foreign community and to the American consulate, by serving as vice consul for the United States, and by judicious investments in Shanghai real estate. Yates was so successful financially that he was able to support a Chinese preacher from his own funds, to build a substantial church, and to take his family to Europe when health made that advisable. He never ceased to be a missionary, and later, when assistance from the United States was resumed, he gave up his business enterprises and devoted his full time to the Church. Not only in Shanghai but in other cities in Kiangsu province he initiated centers of his denomination, and opened a number of out-stations. He was active, too, in literary work, although his writing in Chinese was done through an amanuensis. He prepared tracts, including Ancestral Worship and Fung Shuy (1867); The Tai-Ping Rebellion (1876); a series of lessons for those beginning the study of the spoken language; and a translation into the Shanghai vernacular of all of the New Testament except the book of Revelation. He was still at work on the New Testament when death overtook him, in Shanghai.
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In appearance Yates was tall, erect, and dignified. In manner he had the courtliness and courtesy of the Southern gentleman.
On September 27, 1846, Yates married Eliza E. Moring.
