Should he be called to a case outside the city wall and be detained after dark, the city gate will be kept open for him till he returns.

The city magistrate has himself publicly praised the benevolence of this missionary, and said, "there is no man in Tali like Mr.Smith--would that there were others!" He is a Christian in word and deed, brave and simple, unaffected and sympathetic--the type of missionary needed in China--an honour to his mission.

I saw the courageous man working here almost alone, far distant from all Western comforts, cut off from the world, and almost unknown, and I contrasted him with those other missionaries--the majority--who live in luxurious mission-houses in absolute safety in the treaty ports, yet whose courage and self-denial we have accustomed ourselves to praise in England and America, when with humble voices they parade the dangers they undergo and the hardships they endure in preaching, dear friends, to the "perishing heathen in China, God's lost ones!" In addition to the three converts who have been baptised in Tali in the last two years, there are two inquirers--one the mission cook--who are nearly ready for acceptance.

At the Sunday service I met the three converts.

One is the paid teacher in the mission school; another is a humble pedlar; the third is a courageous native belonging to one of the indigenous tribes of Western China, a Minchia man, whose conversion, judged by all tests, is one of those genuine cases which bring real joy to the missionary.