MISSIONARIES of all societies testify as to the disappointments experienced in those who seem to be converted, but who were users of opium. The use of the drug seems to blunt the conscience as well as weaken the body. Many who use it are deceitful, and missionaries are often deceived by them, yet there are some instances which strikingly exhibit the power of the gospel to transform even the most degraded users of the drug. One such case is reported by Mr. Ament in a letter in our last number. A similar striking incident is narrated by Rev. Mr. Farthing, of the English Baptist Mission at Tai Yuen Fu: "One young fellow, Wang Wau Chiu, wished 'to be clean, to please God and Jesus.' He entered the refuge a few years after it was opened, having been one of those who had wanted us to help in this work. He broke off with hearty cheerfulness (Pai Hsien Sheng tells me, for I was not present at the time), bearing all pain as but a small due for his sinful indulgence. He gave himself to the study of the truth, and delighted much, as many do, in the singing of hymns. One which he asked me to teach him later on, 'Come to Jesus,' was a favorite. "Well, he was stricken down by influenza, and never managed to shake it off. All through the time of his illness he was bidden by his family and urged by his friends to return to opium, as the illness was put down to his abstinence from the drug. But he refused. 'On such a day in such a moon,' he would tell them, 'I lost that road.' 'You will die,' they persisted. 'Well, then, I am resolved to die clean.' And so the days went by. He died 'clean.' Though one could have craved longer life for him, and could wish he had known more of the truth of God, our joy is this, that he was 'faithful unto death' to what he did know. During the time of his illness he testified of his faith in God repeatedly."—Missionary Herald.