Mrs, Archibald Little spent some days at this city in the interests of hor well-known and praiseworthy mission of urging upon the magistrates the importance of ridding China of the foot-binding curse, She succeeded in obtaining an interview with the high military officer and his ladies, besides holding a popular meeting, with the local Christians, who wore much impressed with her methods. The universal custom of foot-binding in Shantung makes the problem of reform a more difficult one than in other provinces, where this fashion in footgear is more optional.
The Rev. J. Cumming-Brown and wife, of London, have been making a tour in Shantung, visiting some of the mission centres. Mr, Cumming-Brown is a well-known minister of the Baptist Church and, in an honorary capacity, represents the Society for Diffusion bf Knowledge when in London. Those visitors are at this writing the guests of the American Presbyterian Mission at Weihsien,
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