We try to meet a felt want among all missiounties by providing them with leaflets and small tracts to be used in aggressive work against idolatry and heathenism. Quite recently the Rev. Mr. Reid, one of our Vice-Praidents, met a Chinaman at Soong-kong, who had received from the Rev. Mr. Box, of the London Mission Society at Bing-o0, some thirty miles away, tract on Regeneration; probably the one by the Rev. Dr. John, No. 429 in catalogue, published by the Central China Tract Society The man had become deeply interested in the subject, and said he believed what he had read, and wanted more books to give him further light, He went through the book room, selecting a number, and when he came to wrap them up he tock out the wall worn copy of the tract on Regeneration and put it in with the new ones. Mr. Reid also mentioned the case of another man who came from a distance in the country with a calendar received from the Rev. Mr. Hill, of the Southern Methodist Mission. He had mastered all the regious information on the calendar and came to the repository to get something else. Dr. DuBose's I: traductions to the Bible, to Genesis, to the Gospels, and to the Acts 1 of the Apostles are admirably adapted to accompany the distribution of the Bible, that the heathen reader may the better understand Ged's word. Exch of our torial leaflets contains an earnest: presentation of some important truth, and very popular. 'They are printed' upon a__good substantial coloured paper, the {gift of the Religious Tract Society of London, handsome, useful and durable.
i kind literature for preachers to use in connec j tion with chapel services or itinerations and for colporteurs to take in their journeys to scatter far and wide in the interior, Though we must attach great importance to literature intended t draw the heathen away from idolatry and towards us and our religion, removing error and superstition and paving the way for more intimate rela~ tions, yet if possible we would lay greater stress upon
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