On June 19th she writes: "To-day I have been studying the Chinese Bible for the first time, beginning at Mark, first chapter. Oh, the joy of seeing in these once meaningless characters the beauty of the heavens opening, the Holy Ghost descending and a voice from heaven saying, Thou art my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.' I hope this verse will touch my teacher's heart as I study it with him."

It appears that something about her or the Word must have impressed the heart of her teacher, for shortly after that she writes that, as they were conversing together about her returning to America some day and the danger of her dying in China before she should return, her teacher said to her, "You will not die. Jehovah will enfold you."

She also tells a very interesting incident to show how readily some of the Chinese accept Christ: "One of the missionaries was speaking on the parable of the lost sheep, and said: "The Lord had to look for some of us a long time, did He not?" Immediately a sweet-faced, elderly mother answered: 'No, I came just as soon as the Lord called me.'"

A very touching incident occurred here relating to the conversion of a woman, about which she writes as follows:

"She and her husband both smoked opium. The husband heard the missionaries tell that Jesus could help them to break away from this awful habit, and he broke it off. When he went home, he told his wife about a wonderful man, Jesus. She wanted to know more about this Jesus and asked many questions, but all he could tell her was that he was

wonderful and could help them to do right. She decided also to break off the use of opium at once, and so he took her pipe and was going to break it, but she did not want it broken. He said, 'Yes, you must trust Jesus now,' and broke it. Soon after they had gone to bed she awoke suffering greatly. She spoke to her husband and told him how she was suffering, but he told her he could do nothing for her, but that she must pray to Jesus. She got up and knelt down by her bed and said, 'What shall I say? I do not know how to pray.' He told her to ask Jesus to take away her pain, and so she said: 'Jesus, I don't know who you are or where you are, but I want to know you, and I want you to take away my pain.' Her pain all left her.

"She now wanted to know still more about this Jesus; so she came to the mission and asked if they preached the 'Jesus doctrine' there; and when they said, 'Yes, they did,' she said she had come to the right place and that she wanted to learn the 'Jesus doctrine.' She did learn very quickly, becoming later one of their most trusted Bible women; and both she and her husband have accomplished much for the Master."

Miss Leffingwell's great love for China was a!ways showing itself upon the slightest pretext. Her sister's husband, Mr. Woodard, of Bradford, Pennsylvania, sent her in a letter a five dollar gold piece. In acknowledging it, she says: "I can exchange this for nine or more Mexican dollars and each one of these will purchase twice as much of anything that is not imported as a dollar will in America. Everything native is so very cheap. So the solution of

the oft-asked question, 'How to make money go the farthest?' is easily answered, 'Send it to evangelize China!"

While Miss Leffingwell was at Luchow a great religious festival was celebrated in the heathen temple at that place. It greatly impressed her as it was the first she had seen, and the devotion of priests in performing their duties especially moved her. She writes about it as follows:

"Truly the diligence with which these heathen priests work at what they believe to be the saving of souls might, I sometimes think, rise up and condemn the half-hearted way in which some, who profess to know the true God, act in their business of saving souls. The gongs are beaten furiously from about dark till two o'clock in the morning. A priest reads, until he is weary, the names of the dead for whom prayers are to be made, then another takes his place, and then another, till all are read. The payment of one thousand cash (about fifty cents in United States currency) into the temple treasury entitles the donor to have his name entered on a book in the temple; and then all the names so entered are read and prayed for once a year for sixty years after the donor's death. Paper imitations of cash will also be burned for each one. Paper imitations of gold and silver will be burned for others who will pay more while living.

"Burning is the means employed of sending supplies to the departed spirits in the other world. Paper imitation of clothing and other articles for the use of the departed are frequently burned, and immense sums of money are annually spent in burn

ing these paper imitations all over China, though the value of what is burned for each one is very little."

Along the same line she relates another incident as follows: "In one place a heathen came to the mission station and asked for a copy of the Gospel of Matthew. On being asked why he wanted such a book, it was found that a native Christian had died, and as his wife and all his relatives were heathens, they wanted to send him that gospel by burning it so he might have the comfort there of what they knew had greatly comforted him here. This same Christian native had before he died tried to persuade his wife to be a Christian and renounce idolatry, but she would not. After his death his wife and her heathen friends wished to send him this Gospel of Matthew."