The Archive · 1925

A Confucian Convert

Mr. Hoste was sent by the Rey. Hudson Taylor, founder of the C.

to Shansi, into a country' district about '100 miles south of Taiyuanfu, and here he came: into contact' with a remarkable' Chinese convert, Confucian of note named Hsi, who splendid work in organizing and Pushing the mission in the district and with whom Mr. Hoste says that he found himself rather as coad-Juster and even assistant than Wirector. "Mr. Hoste pays a grateful tribute to this man's memory, the more conspicuous because, he says, few people outside a mission understand what a Chinese convert has to face among his own kind!

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