Your readers are doubtless aware of the is doing 50 in his honorary connection with of warning is needed on the subject; but great distress prevalent in the rich and the Socisty. He is most' helpful in break- 18 the Recorder the place for it? fertile province of Szechuan; for a ing down prejudices to Christianity which Among the other interesting items in month past twenty to thirty bodies of poor it would be otherwise hard or impossible this month's Recorder are an account of the starved folk are carried daily out of the city to do, in various quarters, and this is the growth and work of the School for Chinese tes. Rice is over double its usual price exse both by the unique position that he Blind in Peking, by the Rev. W. H. here, and farther east there is scarcely any fills in the estimation of the Chinese gen- Murray; particulars of Mission work in to be had at any price, and the Chinese erally, and by his direct. presentation and Pingyang, Corea, by the Rev. H. Loomis report, the people of Kueifu and Wushan application of Christianity, in the line he] and reports of Mr. Mott's work in as eating their children when not living on has taken up, and the effect of it on|and of the Amoy Congregational clay and roots. A rebellion ins broken the minds of many of his readers, This annual meetings. outend the Government soldiers are report-is widely acknowledged by them, and ed defeated; this you may learn the truth while it is a gratification to himself, of from Ichang. We hada magnificent rice it is no less an occasion for thankfulness vest but the rain caused the grain to while it is a gratification to the missionary t, the farmers having no means of body, that they have in him such a
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