No one can say when there may be disturbance here as elsewhere, but if has not come yet. Our work goes on wnintorruptedly and we never before had such opportunities for reaching the people with the Gospel. All the officials seem friendly, and whatever fear the people may have had earlier iv the year, they come freely to the Chapel and hospital now, The Drought.
For, racy weeks, however, {there Eas, been little rain and the millet crops are in rear danger of being destroyed by the ought. Day and night processions are on the march to the favourite temples. Officials and people alike are constantly either petitioning the gods for rain or thanking them for past favours in the way of rain sent some previous year.
Signs of Progress.
fe ure secing some signs of progress these days. The latest report states that the Railway engineers have teache! Shun-fate, go the line may reach Changt8 yet The Peking Syndicate line from Taokou, on the Yi River, to Huaich'ingfu is to be built as even as possible.
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