)It was almost a century before missionaries returned.
Shanghai, in accordance with calls to put “This recalibration led to a shift from a reliance on transshipping goods made in other parts of the world to exporting locally manufactured goods. Why Hong Kong? When missionaries arrived there for the third time in 1955, they found the field white, ready to harvest; all they had to do was thrust in their sickles and reap in great abundance.
You will find the place that fits your interests. In 1896, our national hero, Dr. Jose P. Rizal, used the phrase referring to the Philippines in his last poem, "Mi ultimo adios." Then, in 1949, when Elder Matthew Cowley stood atop Victoria Peak and dedicated the land to missionary work, the light of the gospel again began to shine in Hong Kong. When he decided to go on a mission, however, their liberality ended. By 1959, items made in Hong Kong comprised 70 percent of the territory’s exports.
(Statistics from the Statistical Department, Presiding Bishopricâs Office.) A mission was established, under the presidency of Hilton A. Robertson, former mission president in Japan and Hawaii. There is currently an elders quorum in every branch.
Seventeen Chinese missionaries are serving in Hong Kong, sixteen of whom are natives of Hong Kong; all are making personal financial contributions toward their missions. Dark, ominous, forbidding; jutting out across the East like a huge firedragon: the land of China.
In contrast to Shanghai’s status, however, the island of Hong Kong was fully ceded to British control under the terms of the treaty.Shanghai was ultimately divided into three parts, each with its own laws and regulations: the Shanghai International Settlement, the French Concession, and the area of the city that remained under Chinese administration. Other uses. Furthermore, those who are ancestor worshipers (which represents no small number among the older generation) interpret conversion as a break in the family chain; they, who worshipped their ancestors so faithfully, have lost the great honor of descendants who will worship them after they die.
Church membership in Hong Kong grew by over 3,000 people from 1960 to 1965, but in the next two years the membership dropped by over 1,000, despite the baptism of several hundred more people. As Elder Ezra Taft Benson, now president of the Council of the Twelve, indicated, âIn the timetable of the Lord, the door is now open, and this is apparently the time for the work in Asia.â (Yet the Chinese people were not always so receptive to the restored gospel. Beautiful mountains, beaches and forests, with established hiking trails can be found easily and just outside the city. 2.
The seeds were planted; and when missionaries returned to Hong Kong in 1955 it was time for the harvest.The Church was well received when the emissaries of Jesus Christ came in 1955, and the new members were enthusiastic missionaries.
This forces the branches to continually train new priesthood leaders, without being able to enjoy the results of their efforts.The practice of moving from Hong Kong is not unique to Church members. This, in turn, led to rapid economic and social shifts within the two regions and relegated nearby cities like eastern Suzhou and southern Guangzhou, which both originally ranked among China’s leading cities, to the status of mere regional centers.As the first two Chinese cities to open up to the world, the exceptionally close economic ties between Hong Kong and Shanghai date back over a century. Yet they also hold great symbolic value: The development of these two cities since the mid-19th century allows us to better understand the evolving relationship between city and nation.While many historians group Hong Kong and Shanghai together as China’s first colonial cities, this tendency overlooks very real differences in their origins. They have also purchased land to build a district center. Meanwhile, as China moved into the reform and opening-up period in the late 1970s, Shanghai worked hard to reclaim its status as an all-purpose export-oriented economic center. They had performed no baptisms. They had performed no baptisms.
)So, despairing of success, friendless, and lacking means of support, these three good brethren left the land of Hong Kong less than two months after they had arrived. Foreign capital and firms played an important role in the two cities’ dominance, with the services these firms provided — including trade, shipping, and financing — signaling their future course of development.The concurrent rise of Hong Kong and Shanghai saw China’s wealthiest regions — the Yangtze River Delta in eastern China and the Pearl River Delta in the south — assume a leading position in connecting China to global manufacturing and trade networks.