The Story of the China Inland Mission
M. Geraldine Guinness1893–1894
A history of the China Inland Mission’s first decades, published by the mission and introduced by its founder. It prints letters written by members of the first party from the ship and from Hangzhou in 1866.
The book was published by the mission, and James Hudson Taylor himself refers readers to it for the details of the years after 1865. It quotes at length from the letters of the Lammermuir party, with the writer, place and date of each given in a footnote, and these letters are the reason it is cited here.
It is the mission’s own history, written to commend the work. The narrative that links the letters is hers, a generation after the events.
Cited in
- 25 June 1865, firm date