LATE word from China informs the Mission Board that the Chinese Mission Committee has voted sick furlough to Brother and Sister P. J. Laird, of Chang-sha, Hunan. For some time these missionaries have worked beyond their endurance in an endeavor to obtain a foot-hold in this difficult interior province of Hunan; but their experiences in connection with the recent riots in Chang-sha, in which they barely escaped with their lives, have been too much for them, and both have since been ill. Let these workers be remembered in prayer.
