or Singapore. In China there are said to be near a million
converts; in Tonquin and Cochin China, more than half a million.
One secret of the success of these missions is the rigid economy
practised in the expenditure of the funds. A missionary is
allowed about £30. a year, on which he lives in whatever country
he may be. This renders it possible to support a large number of
missionaries with very limited means; and the natives, seeing
their teachers living in poverty and with none of the luxuries of
life, are convinced that they are sincere in what they teach, and
have really given up home and friends and ease and safety, for
the good of others. No wonder they make converts, for it must be
a great blessing to the poor people among whom they labour to
have a man among them to whom they can go in any trouble or
distress, who will comfort and advise them, who visits them in
sickness, who relieves them in want, and who they see living from
day-to-day in danger of persecution and death--entirely for
their sakes.

My friend at Bukit-tima was truly a father to his flock. He
preached to them in Chinese every Sunday, and had evenings for
discussion and conversation on religion during the week. He had a
school to teach their children. His house was open to them day
and night. If a man came to him and said, "I have no rice for my
family to eat today," he would give him half of what he had in
the house, however little that might be. If another said, "I have
no money to pay my debt," he would give him half the contents of
his purse, were it his last dollar. So, when he was himself in
want, he would send to some of the wealthiest among his flock,
and say, "I have no rice in the house," or "I have given away my
money, and am in want of such and such articles." The result was