Missionary Progress in China
WHEN it is stated that after thirty years of Protestant missionary effort in China there were three native converts, what idea is given of the toil of the heroic pioneers of the gospel in that empire! Brave men and women poured out their lives, and, down out of the sight of men, laid the foundations of that spiritual temple which is now beginning to show some of its majestic proportions, and which is destined to fill the whole land with its grace and glory. At the end of the second thirty years, about ten thousand converts were reported, and after the third period of similar duration, about one hundred thousand. But even these larger figures still leave most of the story untold.—Selected.