the work to the California Chinese Mission
and to the American Missionary Association to which it is an auxiliary,
but it is to take the Chinese Sunday-schools into their own
Sunday-school rooms, to furnish teachers for the same, along with the
lady missionaries and native helpers, to receive the converted ones into
church membership, and to recognize the local work as their own. These
Christians seem to realize that whatever views may be held as to the
political economy of exclusion, the duty is clear as to the
evangelization of these whom God has brought to their doors. And this is
not only for the sake of these, but for the sake also of China, to which
land so many of them are now returning.

I am satisfied with the soundness of the work accomplished by this
process in Christianizing these who had known the true God. I heard one
man denying all such result and appealing to Dr. Pond. His answer was
that if it were not so, the fault was in the character of the Christ
himself, so profoundly persuaded was he that some of these had taken on
his spirit and character. One of the most intellectual of these men was
one whom Dr. Pond characterized to me as "a saintly person." The number
of seven hundred and fifty hopefully transferred from Confucius to
Christ in these missions, is a most gratifying result. The work of the
Baptists, the Presbyterians and the Methodists, is also of the same
encouragement.

I am profoundly grateful to God for the women who have addicted
themselves to this most self-denying of work for the Master's sake. As
always in such cases, they are most happy in their work. They see such
progress, such result in character, that they rejoice in their privilege
of service. One of these pastors declared to me that for a long time he
had counted these women as his "evidences of Christianity."

The missionary zeal of these young brethren is most gratifying. Besides
the furnishing of $860 toward the mission of the American Board at Hong
Kong, under Rev. Mr. Hagar, they have started their own missionary
society here to operate in a self-supporting way in China under the
advice and assistance of Mr. Hagar. To this end they have sent the
brother Joe Jet over with $1,400 in hand to start the work. He is to be
one of a committee of three over there to direct the same. They have
also in hand enough to bring that sum up to $2,000. They are to build a
chapel, to open free schools and start out evangelists. They will se