A Parting Memorial Author:Robert Morrison Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: DISCOURSE III. DELIVERED TO TWO FAMILIES IN DR. LIVINGSTONES HOUSE, AT MACAO, WAI1CH 3, 1822. INTRODUCTION. [Macao, in China, is a small island-like pe... more »ninsula of a larger islet, in the bay which forms the entrance to Canton. The. Chinese Government receives a ground-rent from the Portuguese residents, who are allowed a Government for the management of their own people, and forts for their own protection, but subject and open at all times to the Chinese authorities. Here the European Merchants, during the absence of their ships, retire from Canton, by the permission and the authority of the Chinese Government. The Portuguese have, in Macao, several Parish churches, and about fifty Ecclesiastics. Here, during the summers of 1818 and 1819, in consequence of there being no Protestant Chaplain in the settlement Dr. Morrison felt constrained to. deduct a few hours from his Chinese pursuits, and prepared Lectures for the Sabbath mornings, which were subsequently printed for distribution in the east, In 1819 a. Chaplain for the Hpnpurable East India Company's Factory arrived in China, and Dr. Morrison discontinued his morning lecture. The following brief discourse was composed on a visit to Macao, during what is called the Canton season, when there was no public service at Macao.] 1 Cok. xv. 50—58. " O death, where is.thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?" Ihk death of a, human bejng presents to the eye of an observer a shocking spectacle, and most shocking, when the deceased has been an acquaintance, a dear friend, or a beloved relative. The first cessation of life darkens 'the brightest eye, that it can no longer sec, and deafens thequickest ear, that it can no longer hear; and no bodily organ will any more convey our wishes to the spirit, which but a moment ag...« less