THE GOSPEL AMONG THE CHINESE.
THE Chinese Evangelist, of New York, gives a list of 123 Chinese schools and missions in this country. The average attendance, so far as given, is about 1,600. This total does not include the missions of the Pacific Coast, in connection with which there are 217 Christians. In this city and Brooklyn there are thirty-five schools with an average attendance of 700, of whom sixty-four are Christians. A Chinese Christian lady brought her jewels one morning to her husband to build an opium refuge, and when he expressed surprise, she said, “I have taken Christ for my adornment, and surely that is enough for any Christian woman.” A Christian missionary, on entering a new field in China, was kindly received by the mandarin, who promised to do all in his power to help him. “I have not heard your doctrine,” said he, “but I have seen it. I have a servant who was a perfect devil, but since he received your doctrine, he is another man, and I can now trust him.”—Selected.