hould have good health, and not
fear seclusion from foreign company. I would suggest that a couple
should come, a medical and a non-medical. There is a house which
could be got for such a couple, only I don't see how they could get
on without knowing some Chinese. Perhaps some one of the Peking or
Tientsin ladies already speaking Chinese would volunteer to be a
medical lady's companion. Would that God would stir some of you up!
Meantime, thanks for the money. Thanks also for the prayers which I
take for granted you let us have. You might also pray for a woman
who has a very good, quiet, Christian husband, but herself has such
a temper that she cannot in decency take on a Christian profession.
Eh, man! eh, man! it is curious that I, a widower, should be left
to look after women's souls out here, when lots of women are
competing for men's situations and businesses at home. I guess
things will come right some day, though I may or may not see it.

'Very gratefully,
'Yours sincerely,
'JAMES GILMOUR.'

On May 8 he sent the following note to Mrs. Williams, the wife of the
Rev. Mark Williams of the American Board. Their Society happened to be
holding its annual meeting at the same time in Tientsin as the London
Society. Mr. Gilmour was just entering his fatal illness as he penned
these lines, the last, we believe, that he wrote. They are a beautiful
testimony to the strength of his affection for the Mongols to whom he
and his wife had ministered so well long before, and on whose behalf
they had suffered so much and so deeply. Standing as he was on the
borderland of the heavenly country, he recalls the hard toil of his
early days, and he leaves to those who must carry on to a successful
issue, not only his work, but also the great enterprise of winning all
China for Jesus Christ, this as a last legacy--the fruit of his prayer,
his faith, his toil and his utter self-sacrifice--namely, the conviction
that the need of China is 'good, honest, quiet, earnest, persistent work
in old lines and ways.'

'Tientsin: May 8, Friday.

'My dear Mrs. Williams,--Thanks for returning the photos. Not
having delivered them to you personally, I feared that in the
present whirl of people