Tt is difficult to realise that this is the same city that I visited in May, 1900, just before the Boxer rising. Then the officials did all they could to get one to leave, now the missionaries are living in their own! house quietly and peacefully.
The people seem very friendly and come and go at wilt all day. In the evening from 70 to 100 gather in the front court yard for a Gospel meeting, and they listen most repect fully and attentively to the preaching.
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