The church enjoyed a major expansion during the last years of the 19th century, with many new missionaries, Brazilian ministers, churches and schools.
The first "Christmas offering for missions" in 1888 collected over $3,315, enough to send three new missionaries to China.
The new missionaries brought with them a gift of books and "all things which were needed for worship and the ministry of the Church."
Few new missionaries dared travel to East Asia at the risk of being excommunicated.
He spent the next two years recruiting and training his new missionaries.
Daniel took with him two new missionaries.
Dedication of new missionaries or those about to be sent on new missions.
Sometimes, the new ethnic missionaries also have a cultural mission, but in this case it is to reinforce the culture of home.
In 1818, two more new missionaries were added to the station, the number of schools were increased to eleven, and later to twenty-one schools.
Prominent in his thinking was the recruitment of new missionaries.