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13794
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English
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Alma O. Taylor's Fact-Finding Mission to China
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BYU Studies
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2001
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40
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no.1
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176-203
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Alma O. Taylor served eight years and eight months in Asia as a missionary, 1901-1910. He began with the opening of the Japanese Mission. After serving eight years in Japan (five of those years as mission president), he wrote to the First Presidency requesting that he 'visit China and Korea for the purpose of getting an idea of the conditions there.' Having received permission, Taylor spent the remaining eight months investigating these Asian countries. Using a variety of sources, Taylor recommended to the First Presidency that conditions in China did not then favor the extension of missionary work to that country. Subsequent political problems in China proved the decision to be correct. A copy of Taylor's 'Report of Our Visit to China,' is included in the article
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