A delightful experience at the Chen-tu Missionary Conference was the visit of the Viceroy. He stood up in front of us and preached to us as if he were the missionary and we the heathen gathered in an ordinary street chapel. The situation was decidedly reversed A I fancy his Excellency must have enjoyed preaching to the preachers. One lesson at any rate he taught us. He had " few disagreeable things to say and he said them faithfully he did so with a good deal of tact and courtesy. If he had only sed his position as guest of the Conference to lecture us as harshly as some of us have used our position in the past the Vicerny's visit would not have been pleasant.
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