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Sum raised should be in Sterling rather than dollars.
[edit] List of Protestant missionaries in China
This list is duplicated (more or less) in several related articles. It would make sense to have a separate list article, and replace all such instances with a link to it. I have just been through a similar exercise for a List of China Inland Mission missionaries in China. DFH 19:41, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] 50,000 baptized is unfounded
This statistic is all over the internet. However, according to the back cover overview of Roger Steer's book "Hudson Taylor: A Man In Christ", he was responsible for about 18,000 Chinese professing faith in Christ. So, not sure where the 50,000 number came from but I have removed it and hopefully many other web sites will get corrected. Even if Taylor did take part in baptisms of other Chinese outside of the CIM, that's almost 1000 for every year he was in China - and that kind of constant activity is missing from his biographies. No doubt he personally baptized many.Brian0324 14:33, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
- In the book "Martyred Missionaries of the China Inland Mission" published in 1901 it was estimated that there were nearly 200,000 baptized Protestant Christians in China. That was the work of all mission agencies combined. The same book publishes the current number of "adherents" for each mission - province by province. Considering that Taylor couldn't be at every station for every year with travel and furloughs, it is reasonable to assume that he had some help!Brian0324 17:15, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
There have been two separate anonymous edits that have stated the number of 125,000 Chinese converts due to Taylor. While he did not baptize 50,000 and there were only 18,000 converts associated with the CIM in 1905, the number 125,000 is too low if it is regarding the number of Christians in China after nearly 100 years of Protestant missionary work. In 1900, the estimate was 200,000 according to "Martyred Missionaries of the China Inland Mission" by Marshall Broomhall. But regardless of this unsourced number, it does not belong here in this article pertaining only to Taylor's ministry.Brian0324 16:42, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
Marshall Broomhall wrote in 1911 (six years after the death of Taylor):
It is now nearly forty-six years since Mr. Hudson Taylor yielded himself to God at Brighton for the leadership of this work, and forty-five years since the sailing of the Lammermuir Party. During these years some 36,500 Chinese have, in connection with the work of the C. I. M., publicly confessed Christ in baptism. Of these 36,500, nearly 18,000 (to be exact 17,954), were baptized during the thirty-five years which preceded the Boxer Rebellion, and the remaining 23,500 during the years which have succeeded that baptism of blood. It will be recognized that the last ten years have witnessed a considerable increase in baptisms as compared with the early years of pioneer work. But this is, of course, what would naturally be expected. The apparently barren years of ploughing and of seed-sowing are now bringing forth their harvest. The average number of baptisms per annum for the last ten years has been about 2,600.
(pages 281-282 of The China mission year book;Christian Literature Society for China; National Christian Council of China; Shanghai, 1911)Brian0324 21:25, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
