to return to China he really said his
farewell. We had finished dinner, and when he went out he stood and
looked in through the window at the happy faces still around the table.
He threw a kiss, and then his feelings overcame him, his lip quivered,
the tears came to his eyes, and he hastened away. Later in the day, when
I was speaking hopefully of seeing him again, he answered: "I shall see
your face no more."

'I know he felt very much giving up the comforts of civilised life, but
he set his face to it. It touched me much the last evening he was with
us, when, after I had to remind him two or three times of some business
it was needful for him to attend to before he would go, he said: "I can
hardly drag myself away from this bright cosy scene."

'His was a rarely sensitive soul. It pained him to hear any one speaking
evil of another. I have seen him turn deadly pale when he has heard any
one impute a wrong motive. He longed for more of the spirit of Christ
among men. How he longed, too, for more workers in the Mission field!
Many a time he would say, after a walk through Hamilton on a Saturday
evening: "Just think! In a little town like this there are men preaching
at every other street corner, and I am alone in all of those hundreds of
square miles in Mongolia! What you people are thinking of I cannot
imagine!"'

In a correspondence which he conducted with the daughter of one of his
former professors there is very much that reveals how deep and strong
his religious life had become, and how he had noted the current of
renewed spirituality which is evident now in all sections of the
Evangelical Church.

From this correspondence we have been permitted to cull some beautiful
and helpful passages.

'Glasgow: November 18, 1889.

'May He Himself lead you into closer and closer communion with Him,
and give you in very full measure His joy and His peace! For myself
and for you, I pray that we may be more captivated with Him and His
friendship. You know, I suppose, No. 565, "In the Secret of His
Presence," in the 750 edition of Sankey. No. 328, "O Christ, in
Thee my soul hath found," is one I like too, as being the
expression of partly experience and partly aspiration. He is truly
the true source of true satisfaction. May we be led to trust Him
more largely in all the things of our lives! I am sure, too it will
be the things