His knowledge of Chinese is exceptional; he is the best Chinese scholar in Western China, and is examiner in Chinese for the distant branches of the Inland Mission.
The mission in Tongchuan was opened in 1891, and the results are not discouraging, seeing that the Chinaman is as difficult to lead into the true path as any Jew.

No native has been baptized up to date.

The convert employed by the mission as a native helper is one of the three converts of Chaotong.

He is a bright-faced lad of seventeen, as ardent an evangelist as heart of missionary could desire, but a native preacher can never be so successful as the foreign missionary.

The Chinese listen to him with complacency, "You eat Jesus's rice and of course you speak his words," they say.