She courteously expressed her regret that she could not invite us to dinner.

"Waal now," she said, looking at us from under her spectacles, "ahm real sorry I caan't ask you to have somethin' to eat, but we've just finished, and I guess there ain't nothin' left." Fourteen American missionaries were lately imported into Suifu in one shipment.

Most of them are from Chicago.

One of their earliest efforts will be to translate into Chinese Mr.Stead's "If Christ came to Chicago," in order the better to demonstrate to the Chinese the lofty standard of morality, virtue, probity, and honour attained by the Christian community that sent them to China to enlighten the poor benighted heathen in this land of darkness.
Szechuen is a Catholic stronghold.

There are nominally one hundred thousand Catholics in the province, representing the labours of many French missionaries for a period of rather more than two hundred years.
Actually, however, there are only sixty thousand Chinese in the province who could be called Catholics.