This survey has successfully identified some causative patterns and risk factors for CBCs leaving bicultural Chinese churches, which indicate where preventative kinds of leadership measures can be taken. For example, the research revealed that the life stage when the majority leave is young adulthood; that most CBCs deliberated for a lengthy period of time, assessing their options, before exiting; and that follow-up with them appears to have been minimal or nonexistent.

the child of my said kinsman, that had before so unloyally offended me

Tule fogs last until they are burned off by the sun or are displaced by the wind.

As part of the British offensive in the north of China, they seized the strategically important Taku Forts at the mouth of the Peiho River.