Issue 52 : Hudson Taylor & Missions to China
Originally published in 1996
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Table of Contents
Remarkable or little-known facts about Hudson Taylor and missions to China.
Samuel H. Chao
From the Editor
Mark Galli
Whether he was battling despair or floating on euphoric faith, Hudson Taylor drove himself—and the gospel—ever deeper into China.
Roger Steer
Missionaries who dressed like the Chinese suffered a few snags.
Alvyn Austin
The story of seven extraordinary missionaries and their brief encounter with an extraordinary Chinese pastor.
Alvyn Austin
The earliest China missionaries started with the elite.
Ralph R. Covell
The Christian History Timeline
Editors
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Women played a controversial but decisive new role in China missions.
Ruth A. Tucker
The Boxer Rebellion revealed the courage of missionaries—and the resentment they sparked.
Mark Galli
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Six missionaries whose tenacity changed China
Kevin D. Miller
It took some doing for Chinese Protestants to get free of missionary control.
Daniel H. Bays
Western Protestants poured money and people into China for a hundred years. Did it make a significant difference?
Editors
The missionaries are forgotten, but the prospects for Chinese Christianity have never looked better.
Kim-Kwong Chan
What do you pack if you're going to China as a British missionary in 1865?
What do you pack if you're going to China as a British missionary in 1865?
Samuel Hugh Moffett
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