The [[God Worshipping Society]] (simplified Chinese: [[God Worshipping Society|拜上帝会]]; traditional Chinese: [[God Worshipping Society|拜上帝會]]; pinyin: [[God Worshipping Society|Bài Shàngdì Huì]]) was a religious movement founded and led by [[Hong, Xiuquan]] which drew on his own unique interpretation of Protestant Christianity and combined it with Chinese folk religion, based on the faith in [[Shangdi]] ("Highest/Primordial God"), and other religious traditions. According to historical evidence, his first contact with Christian pamphlets occurred in [[1836-01-01 - 1836-12-31|1836]] when he directly received American Congregationalist missionary [[Stevens, Edwin|Edwin Stevens]]' personal copy of the [[Good Words For Exhorting The Age|Good Words to Admonish the Age]] (by [[Liang, Fa|Liang Fa]], [[Timeline/History/1832-01-01 - 1832-12-31|1832]]). He only briefly looked over and did not carefully examine it. Subsequently, [[Hong, Xiuquan|Hong]] claimed to have experienced mystical visions in the wake of his third failure of the imperial examinations in [[1837-01-01 - 1837-12-31|1837]] and after failing for a fourth time in [[1843-01-01 - 1843-12-31|1843]], he sat down to carefully examine the tracts with his distant cousin [[Feng, Yunshan|Feng Yunshan]], believing that they were "the key to interpreting his visions" coming to the conclusion that he was "the son of God the Father, [[Shangdi]], and was the younger brother of [[Jesus|Jesus Christ]] who had been directed to rid the world of demon worship (that means, submission to the [[Qing|Qing dynasty]], according to [[Hong, Xiuquan|Xiuquan the Qing]] were demons that oppressed the [[Han]] ethnic majority)."