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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...over them; this continued all the week. It was a heartbreaking week. The native Christians came in from all the country round, many of them walking ten and twenty miles; they all went into the study to see the life-size portrait of Mr. Stott, and at the sight burst into tears. You have no idea how they love and honour Mrs. Stott, and they are a nice lot of people too; you can see they are Christians by their faces." Two days after our arrival, Mr. and Mrs. G. left for their own station, Bing-yie, about thirty-three miles south of us. Carpenters and bricklayers had soon to be called in, to repair the damage done by white ants, as part of the floors were quite eaten through, and the house needed to be cleaned throughout; but in three weeks we were in order again. The Christians were all eager for me to visit them, so beginning with the nearest places first, I went to a village seven miles distant from the city, to the house of a man who had been for years the only Christian in that place. My delight was great to find ten converts now, and nearly as many inquirers. After supper, twenty persons with Testaments and hymn-books gathered for evening service. I spoke from John iii., "God's love," and was followed by two of the converts, who gave such addresses as showed how they had grown in grace. In that village there are now twenty disciples, and a Bible reading has been conducted by one of the young ladies every Thursday afternoon. It takes her two hours to go and the same time to return, but small amount of persecution, has had the joy of seeing his wife, and wife's mother, his four children, two it is labour well spent. This man who was at first and for years the only Christian, and who endured no sisters-in-law, and a...