David Hill (missionary)

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David Hill Missionary to China Born 1840 England Died 1896

David Hill (1840-1896) was a British Wesleyan Methodist missionary to China. He served with the English Wesleyan Methodist Society. In Shanxi Province, he was instrumental in the conversion of the Confucian scholar Xi Shengmo to Christianity.

[edit] Bibliography

• Days of Blessing Inland China, Being an Account of Meetings Held in the Province of Shan-si, etc., intro. By J. Hudson Taylor (1887)
• William T. A. Barber, David Hill, Missionary and Saint (1898)
• Harold B. Battenbury, David Hill, Friend of China: A Modern Portrait (1949)
• Jane Elizabeth Hellier, How David Hill Followed Christ: A Biography (n.d.)
• Mrs. Howard Taylor, One of China's Scholars: The Culture and Conversion of a Confucianist (1900, 1907)

Hill's official correspondence is in the Central China field section of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society archive, now at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

[edit] Further reading

• Historical Bibliography of the China Inland Mission