It was an uncommonly happy marriage partly because they shared a deep passion to evangelize China even at great personal sacrifice. Taylor continued to pour himself into his work, both treating the sick and preaching, and by March 1860, Taylor’s church on Bridge Street, Ningpo, had grown to 21 members. But by the summer of 1861, he had contracted some disease (probably hepatitis) that completely sapped his strength. After seven years of ministry in China, he was forced to return to England for an