The Rushing on of the Purposes of God

About this book

This sweeping survey is the first complete account of nearly 150 years of Protestant missions in Shanxi Province, China. Beginning with the arrival of the Protestant missionaries during the 1878 North China Famine and the fiery test of the 1900 Boxer Uprising and subsequent martyrdom of hundres of Shanxi Christians, this important book brings together the historical accounts of the spread of Christianity in the province all the way up to the present. From back cover.