places? They may be very good to
see, but not for this could I leave my household and people. I
cannot speak your words, I do not know any one, and your food is
quite different from ours: nothing is at all the same as that to
which I am accustomed...."

"... It was God's Holy Spirit that led me to come. He wanted me to
do what? Not to amuse _myself_, but to ask and invite _you_ to come
to China to tell the doctrine of Christ. How could you know the
needs of China without hearing them? How could you hear unless I
came to tell you? Now you can know, for I say the harvest in China
is _very_ great, but the labourers are _so_ few. Now my great
desire is that the Gospel of Christ may be known on earth as it is
in heaven. It is not yet known in China, and because the great
houses have not yet heard the Gospel, all their money is spent on
the idols, sacrifices, and burning incense."

"In this country _some_ help to spread the Gospel, some go to other
countries to tell those who have never heard, but some (a great
many) are not helping in any way: though they have all heard
themselves, they are living here only to obey their own wills, for
their own pleasure in this world! How pitiable! We all know the
Gospel of Christ; let us then not follow the heathen (who have
never heard) in caring for the things of this world. The Bible
says, 'If a man receives all the riches of this world, and loses
his own soul' (and the souls of many others), 'what can it profit
him?'..."

"I am only here for a very little, then I must go back to Foochow,
where there are so many large houses full of ladies; the workers
are so very few now. At this time only one _ku-niong_ is there to
visit all the great city houses. She is not enough to visit so
many; and it is said that in these mandarin houses their ears have
never yet heard the doctrine.... Now I pray God to cause, whether
_ku-niongs_ (unmarried ladies) or _sing-sang-niongs_ (married
ladies), _quickly_ to go and enter these houses with the Gospel.
Now I ask you, raise up hot hearts in yourselves and quickly help
us."

"First. Will you come back to China with me?"

"Second. If _you_ cannot, will you cause others to come, by sending
them and doing what you can to help them to come?"

Mrs. Ahok had planned for a six months' visit in England, but word