moral, was given to God, and gladly poured out to carry the gospel to the heathen, and to build up His kingdom in the waste and dark places of the earth."

During this trip she also visited San Francisco and the surrounding country, speaking in many places and entering many open doors. She was much assisted in these meetings by Mrs. May E. Griffith, who pays the following tribute to her: "Possessed of natural and acquired ability, added to many Christian graces which serve to make her a wellrounded missionary, she is an inspiration to all. Children love her for her simplicity and her vivacity. The young people are charmed by the relation of her thrilling experiences, her triumphs and her victories; and feel that their love for her is reciprocated. The older ones are aroused by her attractive personality, her eloquent words of appeal in behalf of the people for whose salvation she has devoted her life; and all are made sensible of her deep spirituality and of the fact that she knows God."

While here she also addressed by invitation the young ladies of the "Hearst Home of Industry," connected with the University of California, located at Berkley. Mrs. Griffith speaks of this address as follows: "For an hour and a half she spoke in her own inimitable way, with freedom and grace. Because her own heart overflowed with love and earnestness for the cause she represented, how could her hearers, as they listened with the most intense interest, but be imbued with a similar spirit? The distance to the great Celestial Empire seemed short

ened as we were brought into close relationship with its inhabitants. Are they not our brothers and sisters? For has not the Book of Truth declared that, ‘He hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth' (Acts 17: 26) ?"

One little incident which reveals her true character may be mentioned. By the neglect of a trainman she was carried past the junction point where she should have changed cars. So she hired a livery rig, paying ten dollars for it and riding twentyseven miles, to keep her engagement. The minister in charge at that place writes as follows: "I had received a message that she would be here, and in due time she arrived with a smile on her face, but with garments badly spotted with mud. This, with the appearance of the horse and buggy, told the story of a flying trip to keep her engagement. She made no complaint against the trainman who had caused her this trouble and expense; but said, 'The railroads give me many courtesies, and they have trouble enough."

She writes concerning her Western trip as follows: "I visited many places where they had never seen a Free Methodist missionary, finding nearly everywhere added testimony that 'the fulness of time' has come for establishing a Free Methodist mission in China. I found many pilgrims who had China so laid on their hearts that, because they had never had the privilege of contributing anything to that field through their own church, had been sending their money there through other channels."

CHAPTER XXX.

LABORS FOR A FREE METHODIST MISSION IN CHINA

CONTINUED.

While one will search the season over

To find the magic four-leaved clover,
Another with not half the trouble

Will plant a crop to bear him double.

-Robert Underwood Johnson.

"You cannot chain the eagle,

And you dare not harm the dove;

But every gate

Hate bars to hate

Will open wide to love."

-Unidentified.

The summer of 1904 was an especially busy one to Miss Leffingwell. She held meetings in so many places that it would be impossible within the limits of this book to mention them all in detail, but her time was more particularly given to camp-meeting work. These gatherings began early in June and continued till into September; and, in all she attended about twenty. Here she had more freedom of speech and secured a more extended hearing than at the meetings held in local churches. Only a few of the incidents connected with these meetings can be noticed. "The first camp-meeting I attended in the East was at Derry, near Pittsburg,

Pennsylvania, where I met with a strange and affecting experience. As I arrived at the meeting unannounced and unexpected, I thought it best to engage a room for myself before going on the ground, so as not to embarrass the management with my entertainment. Selecting a pleasant-looking home near the ground, I introduced myself as a missionary from China, and inquired if they would accommodate me with a room during the meeting. I was surprised at the kindliness and cordiality of the lady as she invited me in and urged me to be seated; and she immediately said: 'I had a very dear friend killed in the riots of 1900, Miss Huston.' 'Not Mary Huston? I managed to gasp. 'Yes, Mary Huston,' she said. 'From Nebraska?" 'Yes, from Nebraska.' 'Did you know Miss Huston's brother, Harvey, that was drowned; and brother Milton who had marked her Bible?' (Page 54). Yes, she knew them both. We had greeted courteously as strangers, but now is it any wonder the greeting was repeated, and that we wept together? Miss Huston had been my companion and special friend on the outward voyage; we had both belonged to what was called the 'Peace Party of '96' (because we all took for our middle name, Ann, of peace), and she had been my closest friend in China. Now here unexpectedly I met a dear friend of hers. was very touching."

From Derry she went to Sharon, Pennsylvania, to a camp-meeting conducted by Rev. M. B. Miller, where she received a collection of over one hundred dollars. She wrote about this, that a few more such collections and she would be ready to report