Journal. March, 1890, Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press, On the 4th of last month Archdeacon Moule read before the Shanghai Mi Association a paper of Rem Mission Life in China, 1861-90", and this paper is happily reprinted in the March number of the Recorder, where it reaches a larger but not less appreciative audience, If an argument were wanted in favour missions, it would not be a light one that they send men like Arch leaven and illuminate ty in the foreign settlements. His reminiscences as recorded here could be little more than a sketch, for they are a survey of twenty-nine years of work in twelve pages, but they are permeated by a pleasant optimism that makes them very delightful reading, Archdeacon Moule's mission work is divided into three periods; fifteen years, 1861-1876, in Ningpo; three years, 1876-1879, in Hangchow and the last seven years—which followed Jong furlough at home—in Shanghai. One reads so much of disparagement of the Chinese, the pictures that are drawn of them are so constantly all shade and no light, that we are glad to find a man who knows them so well as Archdeacon able to say of them With all their unamiable and provoking char-and a people not without cloop and Hath istles,' they are yet a great peuple gratitude for kindness and friendship for and eternal welfare une feels it an honour the friendly; & people for whose temporal and a happiness to spend and be spent, a people which when but anew to God, will be mighty for good in this earth of His." Some touching instances the Archdeacon gives of that gratitude which sume assert is inconceivable in Chix hi most of us who have lived long here know exists as much in Chinese as in avy other human nature; and he says Both in the Church and outside it my reminiscences lead me to thank God for iendship, kindness, courtesy, and hospital shown repeatedly to us strangers from strange land, and such memories will ever make China and her people dear to my heart, During pretty extensive wanderings in the a ig province, in districts too which hud never seen a foreign face or cout before, I have never experienced difficulty in obtaining access to the houses of the people, in getting quite near to them, in ming their confidence and attention, and in sectiring hospital lity when it was needed. Four yearsago I was caught by heavy N.W. gallon the river above returning from Hangchow to Shanghai, and ile reach, I was obliged to abandon and as I was bound to reach ial business the next morning, I walked 70 i and more across the country by night. It was a wild and moonless evening when I started. The country was wholly strange to me, and the two men who undertook to guide me (they were afraid to singly) were perfect strangers and could have dove what they pleased. But with the
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