These past months of difficulty! have undoubtedly had a beneficial effect upon the Chinese Church. The false has been sifted from the true. Genuine Christians have) remained steadfast, while "rice-Christians" have quietly made tiber departure, since it was no longer to their benefit to remain. The Chinese have had to rely directly upon God in times of perplexity when there was no foreign missionary at band to give them advice, and they have found that God is faithful to His promises, In one inland city where the compound walls enclosed both a hos-Pital and a Foundling Home, the Labour Union looked with covetous eyes upon the hi ings and the merry, girls of the Home. 'They entered the compound, demanded that every nian should leave, that the premises' be handed over to them and
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.