A first-hand biography of China Inland Mission (CIM) Protestant missionary Daniel Crofts as related by his grandson. Daniel Crofts arrived in China as the missionary tide was rising and stayed until it ebbed, a half century later. Posted to remote Guizhou Province, a long two month journey upriver, he witnessed and reported on the poverty. political and social upheaval, war, revolution, and turmoil of pre-modern China.