The missionary's work has, he tells me, been "abundantly blessed,"-- he has baptised six converts in the last three years.

A fine type of man is this missionary, brave and self-reliant, sympathetic and self-denying, hopeful and self-satisfied.

His views as a missionary are well-defined.

I give them in his own words:--"Those Chinese who have never heard the Gospel will be judged by the Almighty as He thinks fit"-- a contention which does not admit of dispute--"but those Chinese who have heard the Christian doctrine, and still steel their hearts against the Holy Ghost, will assuredly go to hell; there is no help for them, they can believe and they won't; had they believed, their reward would be eternal; they refuse to believe and their punishment will be eternal." But the destruction that awaits the Chinese must be pointed out to them with becoming gentleness, in accordance with the teaching of the Rev.S.F.Woodin, of the American Baptist Mission, Foochow, who says:--"There are occasions when we must speak that awful word 'hell,' but this should always be done in a spirit of earnest love." (_Records_ of the Shanghai Missionary Conference, 1877, p.

91.) It was a curious study to observe the equanimity with which this good-natured man contemplates the work he has done in China, when to obtain six dubious conversions he has on his own confession sent some thousands of unoffending Chinese _en enfer bouillir eternellement_.
But, if the teaching of this good missionary is unwelcome to the Chinese, and there are hundreds in China who teach as he does, how infinitely more distasteful must be the teaching of both the Founder and the Secretary of the Mission which sent him to China.
"They are God's lost ones who are in China," says Mr.C.L.