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“...various British Churches, for the purpose of learning
the Chinese language, rendering the Sacred Scriptures into the said tongue, and composing an
English-Chinese Dictionary, with the ulterior view of the diffusion of the Christian Religion in
China, and the Extra-Ganges nations; and having, in the year 1818, nearly brought these
several works to a conclusion, my mind was led to pray to God for direction, and to meditate
on what farther means could be used to bring about the final object of my Mission.
The Divine Providence having increased my personal property in a small degree, I
determined to appropriate One Thousand Pounds sterling to found a College, to be called the
Anglo-Chinese College, the object of which should be the cultivation of English and Chinese
literature, in order to the spread of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
As the above preamble shows, the cultivation of literature is not to be considered the
final object of the Institution, but attended to as a means of effectuating, under...”
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