If hypocrisy was the English vice, as the French critic Taine declared, then it had soon become naturalized in the United States.

Congregations consist mainly of Mandarin-speaking refugees from the mainland but Taiwanese are not excluded. Student centers were established at Taipei, Panchiao, and Tainan for Bible study, fellowship, and personal counseling.

A notable man, great in yeares, in name, in dignity and in learning, vaunted himselfe unto me, that he was induced to a certaine most important change of his religion, by a strange and fantastical incitation[…].

The patient is also asked to swallow his own saliva after two weeks of the operation by efficiently closing the buckle cavity.