In the late 19th century, a determined, passionate and fearless young English missionary echoed by the far remote soul call from the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateu , Southwest in China, left the United Kingdom for Zhaotong, China in 1887 to deliver the god's voice. He remained in China, as a missionary, until his death from typhoid in 1915 as he opted to leave the limited and precious penicillin to others.