[CHINA] 1928 Mandarin New Testament owned by Missionary Kitty Farrior

[CHINESE] Mandarin New Testament, Union Version. Shanghai: British and Foreign Bible Society, 1928. [11387]

Black leather over thin card, scuffed, 19 x 13 cm (7 3/8 x 5 1/8 inches), all page edges gilt, clean text, a few black ink number stamps on the end papers. Inscribed "Kitty McMullen Farrior, Chinkiang, Ku, April 16, 1930." Good. Hardcover.

The owner of this Chinese New Testament was Kitty McMullen (1887-1974), b. Goldsboro, NC; d. Guilford, NC. Both of her grandparents were Presbyterian ministers, one of whom was killed in the battle of Resaca, Ga., when chaplain in the Confederate Army. Her father, the Rev. J. C. McMullen, was pastor at Midway, Kentucky, for many years. She sailed for China in September, 1910, as a missionary assigned to Tunghsiang, which station was later merged with Kashing. She married fellow Presbyterian missionary Stacy C. Farrior in 1919. Her ministry in China, apart from her husband's attendance at Princeton Theological Seminary (1933-34), lasted until 1948.