The Chinese written language makes it undeniable that the original God of China, ShangDi, is the same God of the Bible. More than four thousand years ago this ShangDi, the creator of the universe, was the dominant  religion of China. But as the years progressed, ShangDi was forgotten and replaced with ancestral worship and Buddha..

The Nestorian missionaries arrived in China in the 600's AD. A monument built in 635 AD was found identifying 70 missionaries that committed to the evangelism of China. Starting from the early 700's AD, many Roman Catholic missionaries were sent by the church to China. These missionaries met limited success. The first missionary arrived in China in 714.  By the Ch'ing Dynasty in the 1700s, the number of Christians was estimated at about 300,000. Unfortunately, due to the dispute of whether ancestor veneration was a cultural or spiritual phenomenon emperor Yōngzhèng officially banned Christianity from China in 1724.

Through the Opium Wars (1824-1860), the Ch'ing Dynasty was forced by the British to open up China once again to missionaries. In the early 1800's, Protestant missionaries started to come to China. In 1807, Robert Morrison was sent by the London Missionary Society. British Protestant Hudson Taylor, arriving in 1854, was another of those early missionaries who risked their  lives to bring Jesus Christ to China.

In 1888 the first Seventh-day Adventist missionary arrived in China. Abram La Rue used Hong Kong as his base for colporteur evangelism until his death in 1903. In 1902, J.N. Anderson traveled to Hong Kong to baptize the first seven Chinese Seventh-day Adventists. He was the first officially commissioned missionary sent to China by the General Conference.

In 1905, Dr. Harry Miller accepted the Adventist Church's invitation to become a missionary to China. Being one of the most promising and skilled surgeons in the United States, Dr. Miller soon became the predominant doctor in China. He also helped organize the denomination's work in China and was nominated as the first president of the newly organized China Division in 1930.

Through the years, Christianity has grown despite persecution and hardships. Today it is believed that Chinese Christians outnumber the members of the Communist Party. Seventh-day Adventists have also grown in numbers since the first baptism. While it is hard to truly determine exactly how many Christians are Seventh-day Adventists, it is believed that their numbers are well over 500,000.

These two volumes is an incomplete account of the activities of some of the Seventh-day Adventist missionaries and workers, from 1888 through 1988.