John Van Nest Talmage sailed for China in 1847 and spent most of the next forty years at Amoy for the Reformed Church in America. Fagg’s biography, drawing on his letters, covers his early years, the founding of churches, the Small Knife insurrection of the 1850s and the hardships of the mission. His brother T. De Witt Talmage, the famous preacher, writes the introduction.
A detailed record of nineteenth-century Protestant missions in Fujian, written from inside the missionary world. Download the free EPUB.