Twelve years after leaving, Maxwell, accompanied by his wife, returned to Taiwan toward the end of 1883. He revisited the very spot where he began his proselytizing work, and was delighted to see the gains made by the church whose roots he had done so much, single-handedly, to plant.
離開台灣十二年後，一八八三年底，馬雅各偕同夫人又再度回到台灣，回到昔日自己開拓的宣教根據地，見到自己一手親植的教會，內心非常喜樂。