Many of their missionaries and members had worked as teachers in the South.
At home they would read the stories of missionaries and their work.
One of the missionaries there told him all she knew.
In 1706 he returned to China, taking with him a number of missionaries.
"Yet it was nine years since the coming of the missionaries."
There were a large number of foreign missionaries operating in the country.
Much secondary level education was in the hands of foreign missionaries.
His relations with another group of European missionaries were not so good.
It became clear that the era of Missionaries was coming to end.
He said that some of the missionaries were also very rough.