But this allegation unhappily conflicts with facts when applied to Tali.
For the first eleven years the mission laboured here without any success whatever; but now a happier time seems coming, and no less than three converts have been baptised in the last two years.
There are now three missionaries in Tali--there are usually four; they are universally respected by the Chinese; they have made their little mission home one of the most charming in China.

Mr.John Smith, who succeeded Mr.Clarke, has been ten years in Tali.

He is welcomed everywhere, and in every case of serious sickness or opium-poisoning he is sent for.

During all the time he has been in Tali he has never refused to attend a summons to the sick, whether by day or night.

In the course of the year he attends, on an average, between fifty and sixty cases of attempted suicide by opium in the town or its environs, and, if called in time, he is rarely unsuccessful.