Rev. Stephen Livingstone Baldwin (;

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: ''Bǎolíng'';

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: ''Bō̤-lìng''; January 11, 1835 – July 28, 1902) was an American missionary to

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by the

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. His ministerial life covered a period of forty-four years, half of which was spent at Foochow.

Life

Stephen Livingstone Baldwin was born in

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on January 11, 1835. He graduated at Concord Biblical Institute (modern-day

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) in 1858. The same year he was appointed a missionary to

under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He arrived at

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with Mrs. Baldwin in the latter part of 1858, and proceeded forthwith to his station at Foochow, which he reached early in 1859. In the beginning of 1861, he left with his family for the

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on account of Mrs. Baldwin's health, but she died on the voyage. Baldwin married again in America, and the next year, he was at Foochow again with his second wife, Esther E. Baldwin, remaining till 1870. Upon his return to the United States, he held several pastorates, and was for the last 14 years of his life, recording secretary of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1900, he published ''Foreign Missions of the Protestant Churches''. Baldwin died of

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on July 28, 1902, in

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References

A Century of Protestant Missions in China (1807-1907)
(p. 430)
The Encyclopedia Americana
(pp. 78 – 79)
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