"I was 32 years connected with the Mission, from its foundation until the year 1882. Since that time I have been in London looking after the Chinamen who come here, so that I have been connected with the Chinese every month of every year since 1850."
— George Piercy
Source: Evidence before the Royal Commission on Opium, London, September 9, 1893, reprinted in A Veteran Missionary's Evidence (1896)