William Muirhead

William Muirhead was a Protestant Christian missionary who served with the London Missionary Society during the late Qing Dynasty in China.

For the former Canadian merchant and senator, see William Muirhead (politician).

Works authored or edited
Further information: List of Chinese Hymn Books
  • Hymns of Praise. 38 leaves. Shanghai, 1858. By Rev. William Muirhead. This is a collection of 100 hymns in the Shanghai dialect, prefaced by a statement of thirty principal doctrines of the Christian religion, with an elaborate detail of pertinent Scripture texts under each. A subsequent edition was published in 55 leaves.
  • Salvation Hymns. 39 leaves. Shanghai, 1861. By Rev. William Muirhead. This is a collection of 69 hymns.
  • Shanghai Hymn Book, 132 hymns, by William Muirhead, D.D. 1888.

References
  • Alexander Wylie (missionary) (1867). Memorials of Protestant Missionaries to the Chinese. Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press.
  • Broomhall, Alfred (1982). Hudson Taylor and China's Open Century: Barbarians at the Gates. London: Hodder and Stoughton.

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