The Journal was the leading outlet for the English language missionary community in China, with a number of Chinese readers as well.The Presbyterian Press in Shanghai took up bi-monthly publication in January 1874, initiating a sixty-seven year run, becoming monthly in 1886.Lucius Nathan Wheeler, who first started the journal under its original name in 1867, served as editor from 1891 until his sudden death in 1893.Rawlinson continued until September 1937, when he was killed by a bomb dropped accidentally by a Chinese plane during the Japanese attack on Shanghai.[1] A complete run is for sale by National Taiwan University Press, including the Index by Kathleen Lodwick.