The Study On Christianity And Protestantism In Zhi Li（He Bei）provice From 1860 To 1937

In 1807, London Missionary Robert Morrison arrived in Guangzhou became the first in China, Protestant missionaries, followed by some European and American missionaries also gradually in China, but due to the Qing government prohibition, making their missionary activities stagnant.After the Opium War, missionaries rely on unequal treaties in terms of "religion", so that they have a foothold in China, but at this time of the mission range is only limited to forced open the ports.After the end of the second Opium War, Western column forced the Qing government to Christian missionary outreach to the mainland China. Accordingly, each Christian difference will begin to enter the Chinese mainland, as to surround the capital of Zhili naturally become Christian will want to conquer the region.In 1860, Burhenry, an American missionary, missionary in the United States of America, and then, the other poor would have been in direct, and find their own missionary sites.The missionaries in the church building, the development of Christian, and made great achievements in the missionary.According to records, until 1920, Christian in the province opened a total of a total Hall of 67 seats, the largest number of the fourth in the whole country; meal believers 22283, ranking sixth in the country, to the outbreak of war on the eve, Christian believers in Hebei is reached a peak of 7.5 million people.In addition, the missionaries also engaged in education, health care, charity and other social undertakings, as a supplementary means of missionary.Missionary at the same time will also be western advanced medical technology and philosophy of education was introduced into China, not only to reduce the disease to the public distress, and cultivate a large number of professional talents for China, and in a certain extent, to promote the modernization of social Zhili.But because of the limitations of history, Christianity also brought negative influence on the spread of Zhili.However, so far, for the spread of Christianity in Zhili, and did not specifically discussed.Therefore, in based on the collected data, the Christian missionaries were demonstrated in Zhili, in order to made objective evaluation.