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Quakers for the Asia

And therefore in the event the opium trading had been implemented from the Great britain in the new 1830s, Family was basically well informed, and you may protested strongly: this is known in the China, and you can Quaker merchants was in fact permitted to continue exchange whenever almost every other people from other countries was basically expelled.

Because of the 1870s, Quakers have been trapped on evangelical direction, plus 1886 new Family relations Foreign Missionary Association (FFMA) delivered Irish Nearest and dearest Robert and you will Mary Jane Davidson so you can Asia, followed closely by several others. It set-up a goal in the Chongqing, into the Sichuan, deep from the western interior, and later opened one minute heart, within the Sichuan’s financing, Chengdu.

Although they produced few transforms (when Sichuan Yearly Meeting is actually established into the 1904, there had been only 56 Chinese Quakers), the things they’re doing in the community got considerable perception. Chongqing Friends College thrived, plus the Global Family relations Institute, started during the 1909, in the future turned an area in which somebody could meet easily in the an effective silent means. Continue reading →