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1860年夏秋之交,正当第二次鸦片战争之火在京津熊熊燃烧的时候,太平天国领袖洪秀全的宗教老师,美国传教士罗孝全(Issachar·Roberts)终于踏上了太平天国领土,开始了他几年来梦寐以求的太平天国之行。罗孝全(1802—1871年),生于美国田纳西州,就学于南卡罗来纳州弗曼神学院,毕业后任美国南部浸信会传教士。1836年来中国,次年开始在澳门传教,以后转至广州。1847年3月遇到了洪秀全,洪秀全向他学习《圣经》,但他不肯为洪秀全施洗礼,不久又借故赶走了洪秀全。太平天国革命爆发后,罗孝全欣喜若狂,以洪秀全宗教老师的身份,于1852年10月间写了《洪秀全革命之真相》,
At the turn of summer and autumn of 1860, just as the fires of the Second Opium War were burning in Beijing and Tianjin, Issachar Roberts, the religious teacher and leader of the Taiping Heavenly King, Hong Xiuquan, finally set foot on the territory of the Taiping Heaven, The dream trip of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Luo Xiaoquan (1802-1871), born in Tennessee, USA, attended the Vermont Theological Seminary in South Carolina and graduated as a Southern Baptist missionary in the United States. China came to China in 1836 and began teaching in Macao the following year and later to Guangzhou. Hongxingquan was encountered in March 1847, and Hong Xiuquan learned the Bible from him. However, he refused to baptize Hong Xiuquan and soon excused Hong Xiuquan. After the Taiping Revolution broke out, Luo Xiaoquan was ecstatic and, in his capacity as Hong Xiuquan’s religious teacher, wrote “Hong Xiuquan’s Revolutionary Truth” in October 1852,