do not obey Confucius, but disobey and dishonor him.  Once we do like the same, but since we found Jesus and believe he is our Saviour, we stop to speak the bad word, stopped to gamble and smoke opium.  Very seldom I hear or see those who study Confucius do as the Jesus men, for these are they that obey Confucius doctrine and keep his word.  Why cannot those disciples of Confucius be better men?  Ah, Confucius only a good man, he can only tell you the way how to be good man, but he has no power to change your heart, and Jesus can if we trust in him.  This I know, for before I found Jesus I was always swearing and use the bad language, but since I believe in Jesus and confess my sins and ask him to forgive, I know that he has helped me to keep away from all vice and has converted my heart that I might be a better man.  Therefore our Confucius was a man, but Jesus is God.’

“Another question they asked me:  ’You say, whenever you pray to God, God is there.  Suppose you go to the stable to pray, do you think God was there—­such a dirty place—­and hear your prayer?’ I answer, ’Yes, for God is everywhere.  And though we call the place a dirty place, the heart that prays may be clean.  You see the sun rise in the sky, its beams shine over all the world; God’s eye the same, not only see over the world but all through our hearts.’

“Mr. Hager (Missionary of the American Board in South China) has opened a school in our district, so that I found a good opportunity to speak in the name of Jesus.  The seed was sown into their ears, but I do not know what the hardest will be.”

I have also received a brief but interesting note from another of our former helpers—­Wong Ock—­a man of great fervency of spirit and a diligent student of the Word.  Years ago he joined the Salvation Army and was sent to London to be trained for Army work in China.  We had lost sight of him, till this letter came.  Though not connected with the Army he is busy in Christian work, preaching in one of the Gospel Halls in Hong Kong under direction of Dr. Ernest J. Eitel.  For some time before he left California he declined to receive any salary as a helper, believing that the Lord would provide, and he is working still upon this principle, and not without fruit.  A note from Dr. Eitel speaks of one of Wong Ock’s hearers offering himself for baptism, though the work had been in operation but three weeks.

In anticipation of the confirmation of the new treaty, the Chinese are crowding upon us in larger numbers than at any time before for several years.  By hook or by crook they get in, finding no lack of American lawyers ready to smooth their way, and when one opening in the Restriction Act is closed to seek or make another.  If well-supported rumors are to be believed, even customs-officials have not always been irresponsive to golden arguments.  At any rate they come, and the Central School in this city is crowded with pupils, the average attendance for last month being 113, and