THIS leaves our workers in Canton all well but feeling deeply the loss of our dear Sister Miller in Honan. With the millions of heathen thronging us on every side, the loss is double—to those who knew her personally, an individual loss, and to all the cause in this needy field comes, in her sad death, the loss of an enthusiastic and tireless worker who had but scarcely begun her work. Even in her last illness her mind was constantly occupied with planning for the furtherance of the work to which she had fully dedicated her life.
Brother Wilbur has to-day—May 5—gone to Hong Kong, our seaport, about one hundred miles distant, to meet Brother W. C. Hankins and wife whom we expect on the incoming steamer, the Empress of Japan. We are so thankful for this response to the appeal for help for the work at Amoy; still the work there calls for a much stronger force of workers, and we hope the sound of appeal may not be still till we have at least another pair of strong workers for the Fukien Province.
Our Brother Keh (Chinese) writes me to-day: "I have twenty or thirty sound inquirers out in a country district, [he formerly occupied a pastorate in this vicinity], and have felt it necessary to rent a house there to use for a chapel." Now we have an earnest request from the Mission Board not to enlarge our work beyond last year's appropriation, but what could we say to this brother's request for $6.00 a month for rent. And yet these littles multiply upon us from all sides. Our work here in Canton, this city of two and a half million people, is moving encouragingly.
Yours in the work,
MRS. J. N. ANDERSON.
P. S. May 8. Brother and Sister W. C. Hankins have arrived safely after a pleasant voyage. They report a pleasant stop in Kobe, Japan. Are spending a few days with our workers in Canton before going on to their station at Amoy, in the Fukien Province.
MRS. J. N. A.