CHRISTIAN LIVING IN CHRISTIAN AND HEATHEN LANDS.
THE effect produced upon the minds of converts from heathenism when they visit Christian lands is often quite the reverse of what was anticipated. They are always impressed by the marks of skill and enterprise everywhere visible in America and in Europe; but they are often shocked beyond measure to see so many unbelievers, and such open disregard of Christian morality. They are not prepared to find that the lands which are called Christian are not Christian, and, worst of all, they are amazed at finding the church of Christ so like the world. In a brief memorial of Mrs. Ahok, the well-known wife of a Christian native merchant at Foo-Chow, China, it is said that when she came to England, not as a traveler to amuse herself, but on a mission in behalf of her countrywomen, she was so overcome by the sight of Christians living in luxury instead of giving their thought and endeavor to Christian work, that her friends felt it to be too great a strain for her faith to let her remain in such circumstances. Her own faith and zeal were so far beyond what she witnessed in the body of professed Christian believers, that she seemed like one who had received a staggering blow. Oh, for a witnessing church!