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Your tellers new how ior weal whet cot then the provi the Ar 18 days wheres ranting f6£ ae ere, Ya Li enid ats his stew tis uy wil th. ant of his cluing Land in enoss of the Gove vecasien "enabled us to ae tle over ten weeks what ill sowle Inve taken us six or seven week expected yond thu se hot been dis.pp: tines tin May rust Sup spe ysis te Human th far the an we were received tiein's, both by neha we edied onthe Gov mor, everything per nad he re by every Toi, the efi Bore'ga Mfirsin Huma, tre are us vili marked fri Ant feast, a spent lowther eonversit the most vonncered with the well-being of the Einpive and expweislly Hunan, Ts was a real joy to visit Hu this i 1d opposition is dead. a is open. We walked up and down we do streets of with the some freedom and the sane sens of sifty. We me: vith me bus anywhere and Private gentlemen he ses, and there we tea, with, the erful <mse of by with our Changsha friends, W. quite une called at the house bought by us two years ago, but actually handed over to vs only two or three months since, and found that a part of it had been turned into a chapel, and that public prevehing was carried on in it for hours every day. The two native brethren im charge are good and earn-st men, xis have the respect of both the officials and people. They are working (herd, and have already gathered a small constegution of believers around th the plea-ure of seainz some of the mien, and were much struck with their respectable appearance. Te romaine be seen whether they are si re,- Tune alone ex show that. We woald hive hed ut the chapel; but the emytex was for large for the build elon, and sume to an empty spree in the prineiged temple la that part jaf the i Here we std on benches prov and preached to a large congresat Histened wel, and behave? bly, and we ex jussion that the peopl: of C!
for the Gospel as the po or of any other cit in Hup: h. There ix no ditii-wiry now in pure ising jor missionary. pur; people would be als ar not at present in a ~The Renin Uxthotios ght a large piece of by the on which with lay. Oae just before nary of the Lon lon ciety would come at ones mentioned e tery man for the past. Such i sture of things in Ci ngsha, ing could be li I:
{is Honan from whar kept as out a sentment, The fects thay have just given show conelurive'y that such Bas besa the ease, Oar d fient a with the people, bit wi tecas the p sued there ix ug reso: 1 not be maclean open p wou'd hu! the If the free holt not Clary pen ners Fuunin.cup down these two 2 There are about a dozen owned stoss on this andr hive Me thet th well. The passenger trflic is very owing fist. Aste water, ther te be plenty of it for light dra for seven or eight months of the year.
On one way Up We A nowhere, between Yosteu and than 21 fect.
We spen Our Tan al officer in gunboats at Siagtan, our beesming his gusts it ay at the place, so we spent the tat his house. We fond him living in a ud beautifully-furnished house. Mr. Li is " mon of taste, very feud of flowers onl pictures. He is nen, and a capital talker. gentleman, and a delizhitful host all in hi But for him, war house at Siangtan would have been destroyed, and the converts would have fared much worse than they did. We owe him much asa mission, and it was a great pleasure to meet him at his own home, and to bs able to thank him in n, We saw many of the converts, and were delighted them so happy and bright. Several candid stoss for Church membership cams before us, bat we deemed it advisable to put their h pticm off t" our next visit, which will be in the autumn if all goes well We went to sea our own house, which was bsaght by us just twoywars since, and la whic' Christian work has been carried on ever singe. It is a very large house, and is now going though " process of renovatin. The work that is being done on it astonished us for its thorough= ness and betty, When the work is eompleted, we shall have in Sian hea ful chipd for daily prevehing aid Sunday ser views, anda fairly go d selling-house for the missionary, At Héuychou there was a wonlerfai display of pomp and ceremony on our arrival and danarture, Te was not much to our taste, neither we anything ty do with the geting up of it, Li was. suppose, the edlicil way of showing their respect to us, and of impressing the imagination of she people.
on the olicivis and they called tons intereourss Wis of fre most feinn lly charter. ALexpre si their deep regret for che riots of List yar, and their sense of indebtedness tous for the kindness we tad showa in the setriemest of one ditticuities. In asking any is, 15,000 ity? we they 8 hewn oursz!ves to b+ true friends ty ole nifivials The Trot, the prefect, and district magistrates wove us a mmgnitient feast at the Brtas yamen he unier ings of the Chi yn yamen insist d upon. s: ther feast. Pave 0? ths nititay The Christians, of course, wore not going to wen by the heathen so they sent in for forst Tt looked os if they were bent kilim us wich kintuess, and we {old thems. We protest: el, hur for a time to hit se. When wt list they saw seuuld indulge inn more fasting, ty pour in preset in the shape ut ducks, exg3. humyete. And there was ne alt-motive but ty tike all the good things seat in, Cly take from one and not to tak+ fom the other you'd have been agtave off vee. "You mut," they would
eud w "sallow us to show our gratitude and We moved freely among the peopl: of Héngehon, and i re with every mark of respe here Wi not a black look to he see anywhere, nor an angry word to be hewd, Te was intor-Jesting Wo visit the spot ov which war chapel stood before its demolition in July last.
found the bara round and There was not a lick to be hel been comand thing in the ials had bean curted away, shin we found the sume state of things'; and we were told that such was gs at all any missionary chou The the A found prefecture between twant: thirty places of worship. Atl, without a single exception, were utterly des': Oclers, however, have been given to Start the work of rebuilding, and we are hoping ty see all our buildings up again before the close ut next year. Our ehupel and Awelling-houses at Héngcho will, I trusty Lo up befure the close of this year.
On this visit we saw a great deal of the city, The whole city was open t" our inspection, ant we mide the best use we could of our opportunity. We were struck with i's size and popalvion, being much lazer in both respects than we expected it. We estimated the population at not less than 200,000. "Locked at from a missionary point of view, it isa splendid centre, and its importance cannot he overestimated. The work of the London Missionary Society in the prefecture is aren now a truly groat work. The prefecture consists of seven districts or counties, and we have an important work
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