can crowd into the space allowed me.

The new work at San Buenaventura opens finely. It is already one of
our largest interior schools; and two or three, possibly _four_, of
the Chinese have already been led to believe; so that before Low Quong
returns he expects to organize an Association and get Christian work
into systematic operation.

I am greatly pleased also with the reports from Tucson. Yong Jin, who
has done excellent evangelistic work at Santa Cruz, goes to Tucson
next week. He is an earnest Christian, and though somewhat deficient
in English is better educated in Chinese and is an excellent preacher.

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FOUR MONTHS OF EVANGELISTIC WORK.

BY LOW QUONG.

In January last I was asked to do some evangelistic work in the
Northern part of this State. The first place I visited was Oroville.
There we have a branch mission with a fine mission house, or, we might
call it a Chinese church and school combined. The church has a
membership of about fifteen. The evening scholars were usually about
twenty or more. This school has a faithful teacher, and all together
makes a fruitful mission. Although I was there only about a month--yet
I enjoyed the work very much, and my acquaintance with the brethren
there and their kindness to me I can never forget. I will now give you
some little incidents of my work there. The town has about three
hundred Chinese inhabitants, and most of our brethren and scholars
live in the town, but there were also a good many outside of the town.
These are mostly miners. But even these hard-working men, when they
got through their day's work, {138} came to town at night to attend
our evening school; and on Sundays also, to hear the preaching of the
gospel.

At the end of the month, when Mr. Pond came to Oroville, we had the
Lord's supper in our little Chinese church. It was held in the
evening. One far-away brother was informed by letter, and he came over
a long, rough road to attend the Lord's table. It was about eight
o'clock when he reached the church. We asked him what time he started
to walk; he said at one o'clock in the afternoon. He had walked fully
seven hours just for the Lord's supper, and early in the morning he
had to walk back again to his place, while we took the train for
Marysville. During my stay at Oroville, four members were added to the
Association and one was baptized and received to the church. We would
have had two, but one had gone to wor