THERE is no phase of the present crisis in China that carries with it a more pathetic character than the position in which it places the native Christians. Whatever may be thought of the Chinese in the United States, or, indeed, in any other country, those who have worked among them in China, and know of the self-sacrifices they are willing to make because of their faith, can not but regard them with great admiration. Shut up in the Methodist compound in Pekin for the past several weeks, there have been 150 girls of the Girls' High School, and 150 students of the Pekin University. The ages of these children range from fifteen to twenty-four or twenty-five years. Because of our limited means we are not able to send them all home every year, as some of them live in the center of the Boxer region in Shantung, 500 miles away, so that they have not seen their parents for two or three years past. During the past year the Boxer troubles have been going on in the region of their homes, and they do not know, and can not know, the condition in which their parents are placed, or even whether they are living or not. And so these timid girls and boys are thus cooped up in those compounds, with the knowledge that, tho the Boxers fear to kill the foreigners, they have the sanction of the government to do as they please with the Christian natives. Among those young people there is one who, when he was graduated, had an offer of $40 per month if he went into business, which offer he refused, and accepted a call to preach the Gospel outside the Great Wall for $2.75 a month. He is assistant pastor of the large church. His brother, who is also there, gave up a salary of 50 taels per month, and began teaching in Pekin University for 5 taels. After teaching about three months, he was asked to teach English to the two grandsons of Li Hung Chang, who are now in Vanderbilt University, one hour a day for 30 taels a month. He did this extra hour's work, and when he received the 30 ounces of silver, he gave it to the university to educate a boy. Twenty out of twenty-eight of the graduates have made the same kind of sacrifices, some of whom are reclaiming seventy-five to one hundred persons a year, whom they induce to give up wine and opium, and accept Christianity. The Christians have shown themselves ready to endure persecution as well, and when the history of the church in China is written, as it will be some day, it will pile up a list of those who were ready to do, dare, and die for the faith they professed second to none in the world.—Leslie's Weekly.