The Methodist Episcopal Mission at Chungking has always been pre-eminent in the scope of its work and in the untiring energy of its members.- However diver gent are the views held by laymen in the more populous foreign settlements upon either the wisdom of missions in general or of their methods in particular, no one who sees the work actually accomplished can deny the devotion of the missionary to the cause they have undertaken nor f to respect the Inbour which is achieving such vast results in elevating the seemingly inert mass of Chinese humanity. No doubt, equally good work is going on in Shanghai and other large centres, but it is in a mote outport like Chungking that mi mary work is brought home to an outsider in a way that escapes his notice in places filled with the distractions arising from a ceaseless round of business and amusement, Missions have been at work in Shanghai for half a century, putting aside the old Catholic mis: sions who have held the field for two a light canvas bat with colour and set in a border round the brim);
cee coa seo plenty of tacked installed in Szechisan little over a decade, full Binding of fait the Protestant Mince te ge tens chiton introduced into toques, and also 82d have had an exceptional hostility to chieh T dare Lee entice, will not long and people. Yet the pioneers in the field will not long {contend with, both on the part of officials scarlet hats r still find very. appealing, good oyer evil report unt, T may safely enjoy its blissful state of novelty. Bright ce Peon ace one eae aah aaet gen though they may suggest jester gear. tly) their efforte for good ere not alone Feerswhere one sees the glitter of the by the peoples a fast confess by the [tolerated but are thoroughly appreciated sequin. They figure on the gloriously now polite beating of the natives towards patterned pauiels of the wealthy, or they us" im. city that five yeate beck Gefine the hems and seams of the merely foreigner could traverse without being well-to-do; they gleam from out our dra- posed to gross insult. And this changed ener ae ca Ee ney the conduct of the few Europeans, lay and oar ba al wane attitude of the population speaks well for in mind more conscientiously than it is that Line thais tornner isi like, who have made Chung-6 all that glitters is not geld, and. then *i26 their temporary abode, perhaps the sequin would be relegated to]
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