ABEEL, David

[s. 19] : Born June 12, 1804, at New Brunswick, N. J. He accepted the position of chaplain of the American Seamen’s Friend Society at Canton, with a conditional appointment as mi ionary of the American Board at the end of a year, and sailed with Mr. Bridgman, In December, October 14, 1829, for China. L 1 1831, Mr. Abeel entered the service of the American Board, and sailed on the 27th for Batavia, partly for his health, but chiefly to visit the churches planted by the Dutch, two centuries before, in the islands of southeastern Asia. While visiting London, July 25, 1834, he told of the degradation of the women of the East, and presented an appeal to the Christian women of Great Britain, which resulted in the formation of the Society for Promoting Female Education in the East. October 17, 1838, he returned to Canton, but the “opium war” preventing his usefulne there, he visited Malacca, Borneo, and other places. On account of ill health he returned to New York, April 3, 1845, and died at Albany, N. Y., September 4, 1846, aged 42. He published A Journal of a Residence in China; A Mi ionary Convention in Jerusalem; The of the World to the Gospel. Williams on (G. R.), David Abeel, New York, 1849. Claims ABEIH: A village of the Lebanon district in Syria, 25 miles S. of Beirut. mi ion station established by the ABCFM, but in 1870 transferred to American Presbyterian Board. The A Theological Seminary which was founded there in 1869 was transferred to Beirut in 1874. Depending upon the 4 stations of the Lebanon district are 45 outstations, and as many primary schools, with about 650 church members. The mi ionary statistics of Abeih are included in those of the district thus described. 19