Quakerism in Sichuan

[1] Numerous mission properties and native church leaders in Sichuan were respectively destroyed and killed by communists in the mid-1930s.

There a small house was rented until the following spring, when the large premises in the White Dragon Fountain Street became the first home of the Mission.

These visits subsequently extended to the cities of Taihezhen (Taihochen) and Shehongxian (Sehunghsien), which had been developed into an important branch of the Tongchuan work later known as the Mission's Northern District.

Open-air preaching had been considered dangerous for long periods at a time, and dispensary patients decreased by half the number.

In 1897, the FFMA purchased an estate on the hills south of Chongqing and turned it into a school for missionaries' children, which was opened in March 1898.

He was pursued and severely beaten by a crowd after selling books in a temple yard at one of the neighbouring markets named Yu Lung Chen.

They opened a dispensary and held meetings for worship in a very dilapidated chapel made out of unused small rooms.

In 1902, Mira L. Cumber and Dr. Lucy E. Harris joined the Tongchuan mission, the latter being FFMA's first qualified medical missionary in China.

[16] During this period, two new mission centres were opened in Chengdu, the capital, and Suining (Sui-ling Hsien), a county situated between Tongchuan and Chongqing.

Isaac and Esther L. Mason moved to Suining, work at Tongchuan had been taken up by Edward B. and Margaret Vardon.

[22] In 1930, Clifford Morgan Stubbs, a New Zealand Quaker missionary and Professor of Chemistry at the West China Union University,[23] was stabbed to death by communists.

[24] The Friends' Ambulance Unit sent a team of 40 volunteers to provide medical assistance in China in mid 1941 during the Second World War, known as the China Convoy, which operated across the Provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and beyond, until their responsibility for the relief work there was passed to the American Friends Service Committee in 1946.

By the time of the Communists' takeover of Sichuan in late 1949, only the three congregations in Tongchuan city centre, Lingxing and Jingfu were still active.