These who have read de Groot's work on Religious Persecution in China will know how frequently the author quotes cases of vegetarian societies being exterminate ed under the Manchu and earlier dynasties. Action and reaction followed each other so constantly, that enmity between the government of that day and vegetarians was almost an axiom. Nevertheless, there were many good men who had no desire whatever to meddle with goveimmental affairs who became vegetarians for burel; religious reasons. Whether T's vegetarianism had any political bias in it, I never heard; I am quite sure that his main thoughts were religious. He became a Christian, being one. of the three converts who were! the first to be baptized by a Wesleyan Methodist minister in the province of Hunan (the minister was himself a native of the province) on Easter Day, 1903.
The next year he came to our Bible School for training preachers in Hupeh, and as I was then in charge of the school, I had opportunities of closer study of the man. He was very unbalanced and without the background that early education gives, His real family into which he had n born, was one, of which he knew next to nothing. They had been ruined in, the Taiping days and as a baby, he had been adopted into the Li family whose name he ever afterwards. bore. He was enthusiastic to a degree and constantly let his enthusiasm carry him completely off his feet. He was not able to study. Routine and the commonplace had no hold on him at all. After a year, he was set to work in the country in which he had spent all but the first few months of his life. He worked well. It was in his own way and amongst his own: vegetarian folk that he got on best. He set himself to win 100 vege-tanans. I am not sure whether he over quite reached the goal; but he did not fall far short. Amongst the fourscore and more converts he made are some very fe folk who honour his fhemory.
Like most of his fellow-provinei-
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