are past, The city was very full but everybody was most agreeable. The missionaries distributed 10,000 Martin's Evidences of Christianity provided by the missionaries of the province, and also 25,000 Gospels. and Acts supplied by the American BibleSociety and the Scottish Bible Society.. All. dat stu long the foreigners freely "mioglod ith mats, on-lookers and coolies, and, not an unkind word was heard. The officials were especially considerate and.aided,. by their presence and li acts of thoughtfulness, the work of distribution. Very few students refused the ks, while "very many received them graciously. - In view. of Chengtu and the idle talk that his sounded the events that have recently happened in up toa very recent date the absence of even the appearance of ill-will on an occasion like this indicates that there is no very.deep hatred of foreigners in West China.
20th September.
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