down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom" (Luke 6:38). She writes about it: "I was greatly surprised at this text being so strongly impressed upon me. 'Why, Lord,' I wonderingly thought, 'have I not always given anything and everything that you would have me?" There seemed such an absurdity in such a text for me, at this time and in a place where I could never expect to earn any money, and only a meager missionary allowance for my support. 'What have I to give?' I repeatedly asked of the Lord."

As she had no money to give, she began to look over her belongings. She found a small toilet article for which she had no immediate use, but was keeping in loving remembrance of a dear Christian friend who had given it to her. She also discovered that one of her associates needed just such an article, and gave it to her.

Soon after this, she writes, "As I went to my room one day, I found an envelope on my table containing enough money for my needs. I was greatly surprised for I had been thinking more about my part of the command, the giving, than about the promise, 'it shall be given thee.' On the envelope containing this money these words were written, 'He careth for thee.' I never could find out who placed it there, but God knows, and will abundantly reward the giver. The relief that this money af forded me, though it seemed considerable at the time, was nothing compared to the lasting benefit the experience was to my soul."

Miss Leffingwell thus closes her third year of active missionary life, in good health and spirits,

entirely confident that the Lord has thus far led her unerringly by His Spirit.

CHAPTER XIV.

CONTINUED LABORS IN YUN-NAN.

"Father, I know that all my life
Is portioned out for me;

And the changes that are sure to come,
I do not fear to see;

But ask Thee for a present mind
Intent on pleasing Thee.

"In a service that Thy love appoints,
There are no bonds for me,

For my secret heart is taught the truth
That makes Thy children free;

And a life of self-renouncing love

Is a life of liberty."

How little we know what the future has in store for us! The year 1899 came to Miss Leffingwell filled with promise for a bright and useful future in missionary work. Her ideal of life was not one free from care or even danger, but one pervaded with improved opportunities for seeking and saving the lost of China. This hope of continued and uninterrupted labor was much increased by the fact that she was nearing the end of her examinations in the Chinese language. The fourth one of the six required was taken by her early in the year; and she hoped that one more year would finish her task in this direction.

A lady missionary named Campbell from Aus tralia arrived at about this time as a new recruit for the Yun-nan field. Miss Leffingwell speaks of her several times in very high terms, and they seem to have become special friends.

Miss Leffingwell now began to think that her stay here was more permanently assured, and as her examinations were well along and did not require so much of her time, she could now arrange to procure more English books than heretofore. She writes to her friends: "I think now we have a permanent home and I feel safe in asking you to send me a book occasionally, never more than one at a time. Please send me first 'Finney's Lectures to Professing Christians' and 'Pegs for Preachers.' I will order others later."

Among other little articles that she requests her friends to send her are safety pins, hair pins, sewing needles and wooden toothpicks. From personal experience in the foreign field, the author knows that these articles are greatly appreciated by all missionaries as presents from friends at home. Miss Leffingwell in one letter says she has not had a wooden toothpick in three years.

In May of this year, they opened a day-school for the Chinese children, and this proved a wonderful opportunity to Miss Leffingwell to labor among the children. It appears, that, at first, the chil dren were shy about attending the school, and the parents were either unfriendly or indifferent, so that the attendance was rather small; but after a while the novelty of the conditions and the curiosity

of the children and other inducements drew in such numbers that the school was a success.

"We

She wrote about this school as follows: have opened our day-school. The children bring to school among other things their taffy to divide with their teachers; not little hearts and round candies, as we have at home, but made into many different forms, representing Chinese life; miniature pagodas, birds of different kinds, animals, and human forms. One kind they bring is a representation of two good, little boys who lived together and never quarreled. Because of this, they have been immortalized in candy, so that boys who eat it will be made to think that they must not be quarrelsome.

"One boy brought me a tame sparrow that had been taught to come at call, hop on one's hand and open its mouth for food. You might ask me what I wanted of this bird. I did not want it, but I wanted the boy for the Lord. This bird was the dearest, perhaps the only treasure he had. If I accepted it, possibly a corner of his heart would be given with it. Some of the little fellows are quite loyal to us.

"Last Sunday two sturdy little fellows from a well-to-do Chinese family, were telling us how they had been trying to persuade their little neighbors to attend the school with them. Their mother, however, refused to let them come. The boys would cry and tease their mother to let them go. The mother would say: 'Don't go to that "Jesus Hall." The foreigners will dig your eyes out and make medicine of the eye water.' Then our boys would answer this mother and say: 'We have been there many times