We need to prep the ground, protect the seed, water it everyday in order to receive the best result. Chinese people back in the day had no idea about what Christianity was, and some of them were really stubborn and believed that anything from outside of the country is bad and evil.
First expression is really important, and the first time Father Bey appears in the book Boxer is when he led a group of people who like to bully others, and he broke the Tu Di Gong statue in front of the villagers. From the villagers’ perspective, Father Bey immediately becomes the bad guy and foreign devil for what he’s done. The first approach builds up a hattress among the villagers and therefore it is almost impossible for the villagers to accept Christianity. Father Bey failed as a missionary towards the villagers and this builds up Bao’s hattress against the Christianity and foreign