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撮 要

真光書院（True Light Seminary）於1872 年由美北長老會傳教士那夏理（Harriet Newell Noyes, 1844-1924 年）創辦。在辦學初期，就在書院僅僅成立三年，在1875 年學校發生大火，整座校舍焚毀。本文希望透過真光書院火災事件， 來了解傳教士如何面對教案以及在創傷後的復原。上半部分先藉文獻分析，了解真光書院和其創辦人那夏理的歷史以及教會在十九世紀廣州的發展情況，並探討當時社會處境如不平等條約、傳教士的特權等因素如何導致仇外情緒升溫，最後爆發廣州教案——真光書院大火。下半部分研究則集中分析那夏理和那夏禮的信件，更詳細地了解大火的事發經過和往後的挑戰。這不但讓人真實地看見傳教士所經歷的困難，他們藉基督信仰幫助絕處逢生，而且亦看見家人和差會如何成為傳教士重要的支援。

ABSTRACT

True Light Seminary was founded by American Presbyterian missionary Harriet Newell Noyes (1844-1924) in 1872. At the early stage of school development, just three years after establishing the seminary, the school building was burnt down in 1875 and the schoolhouse was unsalvageable. This article looks back to True Light Seminary Fire, in order to understand how missionaries handled the anti-christian incident and how they recovered in trauma. The first part, which is literature analysis, is to show the history of True Light Seminary and the founder Harriet Noyes and the situation of church development in Guangzhou in the 19th century. Also, it focuses on the social context in that stage, for instant unequal treaties and special rights of missionaries, and how these factors led to rising anti-foreigner sentiment and the outbreak of Guangzhou Anti-Christian Incident—True Light Seminary Fire. The second part of the study analyzes letters from Harriet Noyes and Henry Noyes to reveal the details of the incident and challenges followed by. Besides difficulties faced by missionaries, it also demonstrates how Christian faith supported them to survive and the importance of family and mission boards as a supporting system of missionaries.

原載於《建道學刊》60期（2023年7月），頁99-121。