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Wikipedia July 21, 2026 at 04:22 PM

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestantism_in_Sichuan

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American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (ABFMS, American Baptist Churches USA)
Correction

This parenthetical identification is anachronistic and incorrect. The American Baptist Foreign Mission Society was a mission board, while American Baptist Churches USA was not formed until 1972.

Full reasoning

The article equates the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (ABFMS) with American Baptist Churches USA (ABCUSA) in a 1910 context, but these were not the same entity.

  • The United Board Archives page on West China Union University says the university was founded in 1910 by the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, naming ABFMS itself as one of the founding mission partners.
  • The American Baptist Historical Society states that American Baptist Churches USA dates to May 11, 1972, when the American Baptist Convention changed its name to American Baptist Churches in the U.S.A.
  • The same historical society also notes that in 1907 the Northern Baptist Convention was organized, and that the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society was one of the societies that responded to form it.

So in 1910, ABFMS should not be identified as American Baptist Churches USA. A historically accurate description would identify ABFMS as a Baptist mission society associated at that time with the Northern Baptist Convention (and only much later with the denominational lineage that became ABCUSA).

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has 803 pages, 3,786 characters, and 13,484 entries, as well as 401 proverbs
Correction

The book itself does not say it has 13,484 entries. Its introduction says it contains 13,484 examples, including 401 proverbs.

Full reasoning

The article appears to have misread the book’s own introduction.

In the introduction to Western Mandarin, Adam Grainger writes that the work contains “3,786 characters, 112 duplicate characters, 191 words without characters, and 13,484 examples, including 401 proverbs.” In other words, 13,484 refers to examples, not to entries.

The page-count part of the sentence is fine: Open Library lists the 1900 edition as 803 pages. But the article’s wording changes Grainger’s statistic from examples to entries, which is not what the source says.

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