ur sons only as
children."

When this missionary was in a Chinese village where he had never been
before, a man called to see him, bringing with him two pretty little
girls, neatly dressed, about six and seven years old. He said that they
were his daughters and that he wished to sell them. Mr. Doty refused to
buy them, as it was wicked to buy and sell children; but he told him,
that if he would commit them to him, he would take them home with him,
and educate them, and that they might return home after they had grown.
To this proposal he would not consent but said, that if he would buy
them, they should be his for ever. He could have bought them both for
about twenty-six dollars.

The Chinese have many schools, but none for their daughters, as they do
not teach them, to read. When they are about thirteen years old, they
shut them up in what are called "women's apartments," where they remain
until the time of their marriage. Then the parents sell them to those
who wish to have wives for their sons. In this way, they are frequently
married to persons whom they never before saw.

Many parents in China destroy their little girls soon after they are
born, or while they are very small. This they frequently do by throwing
them into rivers, or into the sea, after they have wrapped them up in
coarse mats. There is a little Chinese girl, named Ellen, now living in
Newark, New Jersey, whose father was about to kill her when she was
three weeks old. An English lady heard of his intentions, and sent a
person with ten dollars to see if she could not be bought. He was
offered the ten dollars, but refused to take them. She sent ten dollars
more. He consented to take the twenty dollars. This little girl was
brought by this English lady to America, when she was about six years
old. The friends who have her under their care, are educating her with
the hope that she may go back to China, to tell its females of the
Saviour.

Did you ever, my dear girls, think why it is that your parents love you,
and educate you--why it is that they try to make you happy, instead of
cramping your feet, shutting you up, and, perhaps, at last selling you?
It is because they have the Bible. Then, how anxious should you be to
save what money you can, to buy Bibles to send to those poor heathen.

As I am now speaking of the destruction of infants, I would observe,
that this crime is common in other heathen countries. It was quite
common, until lately, in t