Nine or ten young Chinamen delivered addresses at the anniversary. They
spoke with remarkable simplicity, perspicuity and accuracy of English
pronunciation. In view of their perfect self-possession and propriety of
manner in the presence of the crowded congregation, one could scarcely
realize that nearly all of them were utterly inexperienced in public
speaking. The success of these humble representatives gave a hint of the
possibilities of a Christianized China. One of the speakers gave an
account of the conversion, sickness, death and Christian burial of a
member of the school, a youth of eighteen. The heathen relatives and
friends had attributed the illness to the boy's desertion of the
religion of his fathers, and had begged him to allow the burning of
idolatrous incense. But he had calmly resisted their appeals, and, in an
alien land, far from his father and mother, had pillowed his dying head
on the breast of the Saviour of mankind.

Low Quong, who superintends the mission, and who is true-hearted,
prudent and influential with his countrymen, showed with clearness, the
relation between the conversion of the Chinese in California and the
evangelization of China. It was news to many of his hearers that the
Christian Chinese of America are supporting native missionaries of their
own in China.

The recitation by the school in concert of some of the sweetest and most
familiar of the Psalms and Scriptural promises, melted the hearts of the
hearers into sympathy. The old truths borrowed a new tenderness and
emphasis from these voices accustomed to recite heathen prayers. The
pupils sang in solo, in duet and in chorus. When "Over the Ocean Wave"
was rendered, some of us queried in our minds on which side of the ocean
wave God thinks the poor heathen live--the side from which these gentle