聖會祷文.
香港 : 聖士提反堂蔵板, 光緒三年.

The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the Use of the Church of England; The Psalter or Psalms of David; and the Form, and Manner of Making, Ordaining, and Consecrating Bishops, Priests, and Deacons.
Translated into Cantonese by the Rev. Arthur B. Hutchinson.
Hong Kong: St. Stephen's Church, 1877/1878.


The Contents of this Book. [All files are in Portable Document Format]

1. A Table of Psalms.

2. A Table of Proper Lessons.

3. The Order for Morning Prayer.

4. The Order for Evening Prayer.

5. The Creed of Saint Athanasius.

6. The Litany.

7. Prayers and Thanksgivings upon several Occasions.

8. The Collects, Epistles, and Gospels, to be used at the Ministration of the holy Communion, throughout the Year.

9. The Order of the Ministration of the holy Communion.

10. The Order of Baptism both Publick and Private.

11. The Order of Baptism for those of Riper Years.

12. The Order of Confirmation.

13. The Order of Confirmation.

14. The Form of Solemnization of Matrimony.

15. The Order for the Visitation of the Sick, and the Communion of the Sick.

16. The Order for the Burial of the Dead.

17. The Thanksgiving of Women after Child-birth.

18. A Commination, or denouncing of God's anger and judgements against Sinners.

19. The Psalter.

20. Forms of Prayer to be Used at Sea.

21. The Form and Manner of Making, Ordaining, and Consecrating of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons.

22. A Prayer for Unity.

23. Articles of Religion. 論要道三十九條


Introduction

The English title page for this translation of the Book of Common Prayer into Cantonese notes that it was published in Hong Kong in 1878. The Chinese title page records it as 1877 according to Christian reckoning, and also dates it to the third year of the Guangxu Emperor (Kuang-Hsu in Wade-Giles Romanization), which could be either 1877 or 1878.

Translator Arthur Blockey Hutchinson (1841-1919) was a missionary of the Church Missionary Society who trained at Islington. He served in Hong Kong from 1870-1881, and subsequently at Nagasaki and Fukuoka from 1882 to 1919. He is buried in the Foreigners' Cemetery in Karuizawa.

David Griffiths identifies this text as No. 18:6 in his Bibliography of the Book of Common Prayer 1549-1999 (London: The British Library; New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2002). It was digitized in 2015 by Richard Mammana from a personal copy.