 Her father was criticized for taking unmarried women missionaries into China, and replied in this way, 

On board the tea clipper "Lammermuir", Grace shared a cabin with Emily Blatchley, who was in charge of teaching the Taylor children.Jennie Faulding was one of the first to take note of Grace's apparent conversion to Christianity along with a number of the crew while they sailed across the Indian Ocean.The "Lammermuir" was almost wrecked by two typhoons before arriving in battered shape at Shanghai.