be
following after righteousness in their own half-instructed fashion.
These sects are strong in numbers in some parts of the district,
and, if God should give us some of these men as converts, we might
hope for rapid progress among their companions. The last that I
heard of this man, he was coming to Mr. Sun, asking many questions.
He lodged with us one night, and I invited him to breakfast with me
in the morning. He was declining on the plea that he was a
vegetarian. It was with much satisfaction that I was able to say in
reply, "So am I."

'The Tsai li ti are strong in Ch'ao Yang. I have been praying and
working to gain them for a year and more. One evening a deputation
of two men called upon me in my inn, and said they had come
representing many who wanted to know about Christianity. They, the
Tsai li ti, had been watching me ever since I had come to Ch'ao
Yang. They had listened much and often to our preaching, and now
they had come to make formal inquiries. I gave them such
information as I thought they needed, and we got on well enough
till they asked me to refute a slander. The slander was to the
effect that in a chapel in Peking, the preacher would, when he
finished preaching, get down off the platform and have a smoke! I
had to admit that this was no slander, but a true statement. I had
a good deal to say in explanation of it; but, alas! the men came no
more.'

To form any just estimate of Mr. Gilmour's work in Eastern Mongolia, it
is needful constantly to bear in mind that it was practically a new
departure. So far as we know, he is the only missionary in China
connected with the London Missionary Society who adopted _in toto_ not
only the native dress, but practically the native food, and, so far as a
Christian man could, native habits of life. His average expense for food
during his residence in his district was _threepence a day_. This rate
of expenditure was, of course, possible only because he adopted
vegetarianism. His practice acted and reacted upon his thought, and he
came at this time to hold the view, for and against which a great deal
may be said, that it was a mistake for Chinese missionaries to live as
foreigners--that is, to wear foreign dress, arrange their houses and
furniture as nearly as possible in European style, and eat European
food. Both on its economical side and also a