The Sheo Yang Mission (referred to as SYM in some accounts) was a Protestant Christian missionary society that was involved in sending workers to China during the late Qing dynasty.
[full citation needed], chapter 6 entitled "The Bible in J. Hudson Taylor's Missionary Teaching and Preaching" reports at section 6.2.3: Given that the Sheo Yang missioners moved from the CIM to the Baptist Missionary Society (BMS) it seems most likely that this Shansi spirit was the source of the disagreement[citation needed].
In June and July 1886 missionaries of the various societies gathered for a conference[10] with the visiting Hudson Taylor (CIM).
Mr Sowerby (BMS) and Dr E H Edwards (CIM at the time) both questioned the level of knowledge of the local Tao-li that should be acquired.
Hudson Taylors response[10] included a recollection, thus: The Pigott's travelled out to China in January 1888 with a group of missionaries setting out on the first Kaisar-i-Hind (Caesar of India) steam ship and later the SS Deccan.
[11] Around the first week of April 1900 Rev Alexander Grant (father of Mrs Lovitt) and Mr Hoddle an "independent worker" visited the Sheo Yang mission, in "A Thousand Miles of Miracles"[4] Rev A E Glover records: The following people are variously listed as having been part of the Sheo Yang Mission (pages refer to entries in the "Chinese Recorder Index",[6] † indicate martyrdom at Sheo Yang Mission as reported e.g. in "Last Letters"[12] or "John Innocent".
Of the latter Mission two former members who had retired from the field have felt the present need to be a special call, and have already returned to Shan-si.