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IN HIS FATHER’S FOOTSTEPS AND BEYOND
In 1907 GFA offered his services to the China Inland Mission and spent a year in training at
Newington Green, North London.(Picture)
On September 12, 1908, aged 21, he sailed
again for China. Three days later a party of
women recruits for the CIM embarked
separately for Shanghai. On board this
second ship was Fanny Riley.
After some orientation and travel
preparation in the Mission headquarters in
Shanghai, GFA travelled up the Yangtse
River to the city of Anking where the Men’s
Language School was situated. Meanwhile
Fanny also went to Language School, but
the Women’s Language School was
situated closer to Shanghai at Yangchou which was on the Grand Canal just north of its
junction with the Yangtse River. They would have had to disembark from their Yangtse
ferry at Ch’en Chiang and from there travel by launch up the Canal to Yangchou.
IN HIS FATHER’S FOOTSTEPS AND BEYOND
In 1907 GFA offered his services to the China Inland Mission and spent a year in training at
Newington Green, North London.(Picture)
On September 12, 1908, aged 21, he sailed
again for China. Three days later a party of
women recruits for the CIM embarked
separately for Shanghai. On board this
second ship was Fanny Riley.
After some orientation and travel
preparation in the Mission headquarters in
Shanghai, GFA travelled up the Yangtse
River to the city of Anking where the Men’s
Language School was situated. Meanwhile
Fanny also went to Language School, but
the Women’s Language School was
situated closer to Shanghai at Yangchou which was on the Grand Canal just north of its
junction with the Yangtse River. They would have had to disembark from their Yangtse
ferry at Ch’en Chiang and from there travel by launch up the Canal to Yangchou.
