The Taylor family unofficially adopted her as one of their own and her attendance at the weekly prayer meeting for China at Coborn Street in Bromley-by-Bow, East End of London (as well as Taylor's book "China's Spiritual Need and Claims") soon led to her volunteering to join the largest party of Protestant missionaries to ever yet set sail for China, the Lammermuir Party, in 1866.
The Taylor family took her into their fold unofficially, and her involvement at the weekly prayer meeting for China at Coborn Street in Bromley-by-Bow, East End of London (and Taylor's book "China's Spiritual Need and Claims") encouraged her to join the Lammermuir Party, which was the largest group of Protestant missionaries ever to sail to China in 1866.