Inland Mission (CIM), after landing at Wanhsien, travelled via Shuenkingfu to Chungking, where he arrived on 1 May. There he rented premises for other CIM missionaries to use as a base. In 1882, American Methodist Episcopal missionaries arrived in Chungking. Their early efforts encountered strong resistance and riots that led to the abandonment of the mission. It was not until 1889 that these Methodists came back and started the mission again. The year 1887 marks the arrival of the Anglican representatives of the CIM. William Cassels, already in holy orders; Arthur T. Polhill-Turner, was reading for orders when he volunteered for China; and Montagu Proctor-Beauchamp. All three were members of the Cambridge Seven. In 1888, the London Missionary Society began work in Sichuan, taking Chungking as their center, a city in the east of the province. In addition, they had a large district to the south and southeast. The first American Baptist missionaries to reach the province were Rev. W. M. Upcraft and Rev. George Warner, who sailed in 1889. The journey required many weeks before their arrival in Suifu, where they established the first mission station. Four more stations were established in Kiatingfu (1894), Yachowfu (1894), Ningyuanfu (1905), and Chengtu (1909). Robert John and Mary Jane Davidson of Friends' Foreign Mission Association introduced Quakerism into Tungchwan in 1889. Within 19 years five monthly meetings were successively established in Chengtu, Chungking, Tungchwan, Tungliang and Suining. At the close of 1891, the Rev. James Heywood Horsburgh, along with Mrs. Horsburgh, Rev. O. M. Jackson, three laymen, and six single women missionaries, entered Sichuan as the first band of Church Missionary Society (CMS) missionaries to take up work in that province. By 1894, CMS work had started in Mienchow, Chungpa, Anhsien, Mienchu and Sintu. Their first church was founded in 1894 in Chungpa. In 1892, the Canadian Methodist Mission established missionary stations in Chengdu and Leshan. A church and a were subsequently built in Jinjiang District, Chengdu, which was the result of a team effort by O. L. Kilborn, , G. E. Hartwell, D. W. Stevenson and others. In 1910, the Canadian Mission took over Chungking district from London Missionary Society. The Anglican Diocese of Szechwan was established in 1895, under the supervision of the Church of England. The foundation of the diocese was the result from the efforts of William Cassels, Arthur T. Polhill-Turner and Montagu Proctor-Beauchamp. Cassels was consecrated as