以往的晚清中外关系研究往往强调了甲午战后民教冲突的一面,而从未提到过传教士迫切希望减少这种冲突并为此作的努力。虽然清廷两派在基督教问题上的分歧导致1895年新教传教士集体上疏清廷的成效甚微,但清廷高层的改良派官员与李提摩太等传教士的交往和了解成为基层民教冲突影响高层政治决策的中间环节,预示了日后清廷修正基督教政策的可能性。 Previous studies on Sino-foreign relations in the late Qing dynasty often emphasized the confrontational aspects of Protestantism after the Sino-Japanese War, but never mentioned that missionaries are eager to reduce such conflicts and make efforts to that end. Although the disagreements between the two schools on the Christian issue led to the collective succession of the Protestant missionaries in 1895 with little success, the reform officials at the top of the Qing government and the missionaries such as Timothy met and became the grassroots Teaching the middle part of the conflict that affects high-level political decision-making foreshadows the possibility of the revision of the Christian policy in the future.