The most astonishing incident of the year in Chinanfu has been the withdrawal one of the paid evangelistic helpers from mission employ, or rather his voluntary relinquishment of his salary, for he still does evangelistic work a: he has time. He isa man of lovely Christian character who seems to be superior to all the sordid motives which have such full sway in the minds of many of the Chinese. He always Ere, is gentle and unassuming in manner ays his shoal fees promptly without being and altogether a most remarkable man. He could quite as well have retained his mission salary and hired some one for far less to take care of his farm for him, but preferred to be entirely free to preach without being asked inconvenient questions about how much he was paid for the job. Would there were more like this man, Mr. Fan.
'16th November.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.