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William Muirhead

William Muirhead

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For the former Canadian merchant and senator, see William Muirhead (politician).

William Muirhead was a Protestant Christian missionary who served with the London Missionary Society during the late Qing Dynasty in China.

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Further information: List of Chinese Hymn Books
  • Hymns of Praise. 38 leaves. Shanghai, 1858. By Rev. William Muirhead. This is a collection of 100 hymns in the Shanghai dialect, prefaced by a statement of thirty principal doctrines of the Christian religion, with an elaborate detail of pertinent Scripture texts under each. A subsequent edition was published in 55 leaves.
  • Salvation Hymns. 39 leaves. Shanghai, 1861. By Rev. William Muirhead. This is a collection of 69 hymns.
  • Shanghai Hymn Book, 132 hymns, by William Muirhead, D.D. 1888.

References

  • Alexander Wylie (missionary) (1867). Memorials of Protestant Missionaries to the Chinese. Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press.
  • Broomhall, Alfred (1982). Hudson Taylor and China's Open Century: Barbarians at the Gates. London: Hodder and Stoughton.

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