A Christian Girl in Hunan
A MISSIONARY, writing of the work among women in Hunan, China, a province only recently opened to Christians, describes the case of one young woman, which is most interesting. The girl had been converted, and was soon to be baptized. She had unbound her feet as soon as she believed the gospel; and although they were only three and one-half or four inches long, she was wearing shoes about six inches in length, in order that her feet might grow rapidly. She wanted them to grow as large as the missionary's, so that the heathen man to whom she had been betrothed since a child would not want her. It is impossible, according to Chinese law, to break the engagement, but she hoped if her feet were large and she insisted on a Christian wedding, it would make him willing to give her up. She was studying her Bible most enthusiastically, and the rapidity with which she learned was simply marvelous.