American Methodist Episcopal Mission

In 1847, the American Methodist Episcopal Society (North) entered the field of China, and soon surpassed all others in the number of its agents and members.

When he was told that no money was available for the purpose, he wrote: Engage me a passage before the mast in the first vessel going to China.

[citation needed]Such enthusiasm was irresistible, and Collins was sent to Fuzhou, where, after ten years weary preparation, a work broke out, which spread itself over six large districts, and comprised sixty stations.

The mission also wound along the banks of the Yangtze for three hundred miles, and had stations in Jiujiang and other large cities.

Northwards it has churches in Beijing, Tianjin and Isunhua, with full accompaniments of schools and hospitals, and it extended westward to Chongqing, 1,400 miles from the sea.