nge. But meanwhile he went
bravely on. Like his Master, 'he endured the contradiction of sinners
against himself,' and when 'he was reviled, he reviled not again.'

'We left Ch'ao Yang,' he writes under date of September 3, 1888,
'August 10, attended markets, got much rained in, and reached Ta
Cheng Tz[)u] August 20. There I found that one of the Christians
had possessed himself of my bank book and drawn about fifteen taels
of my money which I had banked at the grocer's. The delinquent
turned up next day, walked in, and hung up his whip as if nothing
had happened. At the moment I was dining, and he sat down beside
me. I asked him quietly why he had treated me so. He said I might
be easy in mind; he had money and cattle he would pay me. "Go,
then, and bring me the money; till you do so, don't come to me
again." Off he went. Days passed and nothing was done to repair the
mischief. Meantime, the scandal was the talk of the small town, and
the scornful things said were so keen that Liu, my assistant, got
quite wild. He was indignant that I did not go to law with the man,
who all the while was swelling about on a donkey bought with the
money he stole from me, and using the most defiant and abusive
language towards me (not to my face, happily). The roughs of the
place began to be insolent, and a drunken man came and made a scene
in our quarters. Liu redoubled his attack on me, and even
threatened to go home to Shantung if I would do nothing but pray--a
course of action on my part which irritated him much. Li San, the
head Christian there, joined him in saying I ought to make a show
of power. I asked the two to read at their leisure Matt. v. 6, 7.
Liu warned me that I was in personal danger. The man was
panic-struck and highly nervous. I arranged an expedition to a
place some 90 li away, but got rained in and could not go. Finally,
the offender sent an embassy desiring peace, and, the day before we
left, a respectable deputation of mutual friends, Christian and
heathen, found its way one by one to my room, coming thus not to
attract attention, and last of all came the thief. According to
pre-arrangement I asked him, as he entered, what he had come for.
He walked up to the wall, knelt down, and confessed his sin in
prayer to God. The end of the matter is, he gives me