was the concluding point. When the speaker came here there were four Mixsions two English, and two American, consisting of in all, with their families and several Indy workers. At firat the area of work was restricted by Consular regulations to a day's travel, but these were more and more broken through, until greater scope was given. The journies were not undertaken without considerable danger, and the older missionaries could relate adventures, painful and amusing, arising from first contact with the natives, which happily were now rarely met with, After the second treaty the work increased, and it now seemed there were over 1,000 missionaries, male and female, in the field, As to results, he remarked that it might be truly said that the various means at work were being carried on more or less satisfactorily, more or less successfully. The contrast between the long past and the Present experience of missionaries was truly wonderful in every point of view, in the number of labourers, the opportunities of usefulness, and. in the, in-gathering. "We have ventured," said Mr, Muirhead, in closing, "to lay this matter before you though it may be regarded as inappropriate in the circumstances. We trow not. No eater and no better could be brought forward by one whose reminiscences of many years in China were being dotal Those years are i things hastening to a close, and it is a satisfaction to him of no ordinary kind to be able to testify in such a gathering as this, that barring the defects and mistakes of his missionary life, in common with everything human, he is profoundly thank. ful fur the honour conferred upon him of being an ambassador for Christ in the midst of this heathen people." (Applause.
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