It is objected that so far as is g generally known, the apparently small success of missionary Jabour in China after mam years demonstrates the futility of the work or the insurmountability of the difficulties inthe way. Believing as we do the Divine origin and adaptation of the Gospel of Christ to the wants and circumstances of every man living, we utterly deny the futility of it in application to the Chinese, any more than in relation to ourselves. Taking the parables of our Lord, the history of Christianity and the experience of individuals and nations on the subject, we observe that the work advances by slow degrees, as is said of the science of geology, Providence moves a step and ages have passed away. So it has been at home, and it is so here and yet the time that the Word of Life has been made known in China is brief compared with the requirements of the case, and the results we are able to adduce are an irresistible argument in its favour, always allowing for the insufficiency of the means employed and the shortcomings and sins of the agents engaged in the work. In regard to
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