was "nothing in the world," he did not and would not forbid her to do
what she thought right, and thus she provided herself with a shrine and
gods and was comforted.

Meanwhile, the husband lived a Christian life before her, and she
herself was willing to receive instruction from Mrs. Carrington and
others. It is not improbable that she saw the difference between a home
even half Christian, like her own, and those where heathen customs made
of a husband less a protector than a lord. Doubtless she thought much in
silence before coming to the decision which changed the current of her
life. It is singular that the crisis came in consequence of her
observing at a marriage of Chinese persons making no profession of
Christian faith, the absence of the rites which had been, in her view,
the only safeguards against evil. This brought her to decision. With her
own hands she removed the shrine she had erected, and then declared her
purpose to worship her husband's God. Those who know her--both Chinese
and Americans--see in her the tokens of a real and radical change; and
it was with great joy that I heard, some weeks ago, that she had been
baptized and welcomed to the Congregational Church in Sacramento, to
which her husband has belonged these many years.

WM. C. POND.

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THE FUTURE OF THE NEGRO IN OUR COUNTRY.

_Address at the Annual Meeting in Chicago_,

BY THE REV. C.H. RICHARDS, D.D.