Of one of the Ti-Ping books Dr.Medhurst says: "There is not a word in it which a Christian missionary might not adopt and circulate as a tract for the benefit of the Chinese." Dr.Medhurst also describes a scene which took place in Shanghae, where he was preaching in the chapel of the London Missionary Society, on the folly of idolatry and the duty of worshipping the one true God.

A man arose in the middle of the congregation and said: "That is true! that is true! the idols must perish.

I am a Ti-Ping; we all worship one God and believe in Jesus, and we everywhere destroy the idols.

Two years ago when we began we were only three thousand; now we have marched across the Empire, because God was on our side." He then exhorted the people to abandon idolatry and to believe in Jesus, and said: "We are happy in our religion, and look on the day of our death as the happiest moment of life.

When any of our number dies, we do not weep, but congratulate each other because he has gone to the joy of the heavenly world." The mission of Mr.Burlingame indicated a sincere desire on the part of the sagacious men who then governed China, especially of Prince Kung, to enter into relations with modern civilization and modern thought.