The Taiping Rebellion
In Our Time: History
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What Happened to Missionary Support in China?
There was considerable enthusiasm at the beginning, but it does, it does wear off. Because hong sotin is e very much pursuing his own form of christianity. And he exchanges letters with the reverend edgins of the london missionary society. He suggests that god actually only had one son,. What you get is then hong rangan using the at hong so tin using the imperial red brush, striking that through not only sanjo, i'm the other one and also that possibly that you've got to think about religion in a slightly figurative sense. All this is crossed out, no real he says; er honcetran himself destroys quite a lot of missionary
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