Abstract: Abstract：Very often, the past researches for the relationship between China and foreign countries lay stress on the confrontation of civilians with missionaries instead of mentioning the latter's hardworking for avoiding the confrontation. Although the divergence of the two official groups on Christianity results in being unsuccessful in assembled missionaries' submitting a memorial to the emperor, the interactions and understandings between the foreignoriented, reformist officers and Timothy Richard as well as other missionaries, as a middle link, influence the highlevel politics, and, at the same time, foretell the subsequent possibility of revising the Christian policies of the royal court.

Key words: Timothy Richard, Weng Tonghe, submit a memorial to the emperor, Key words： missionary