He cites individual cases.  Speaking of an aged widow he says: 

“She lives at a village some fifteen miles or more from Amoy.  Boats coming from that place to this place land at a wharf near my house.  On one occasion, when she arrived here a few months ago, she resolved to come to my house, and see how the foreigners lived.  On entering, she was met by the Christian who has charge of the chapel.  He asked her business.  She said that she only came for amusement.  He replied, ’This is not a place to visit for amusement, but to hear the doctrine.’  ‘Well,’ says she, ’then I will hear the doctrine.’  He explained to her something of the truths of Christianity.  He told her also that after breakfast I should be in the chapel for morning worship.  She went back to the neighbor’s house whence she had come, to wait until after breakfast.  But the new doctrine which she had heard, took so deep a hold on her mind, that she desired no breakfast for herself.  Soon she again came to hear more.  She was deeply impressed with the truth and importance of the things which she heard.  She reasoned with herself thus:  ’The myriads of people I meet with do not know what is in my heart, but these people tell me what is in my heart and in my bones.  This doctrine cannot be of man.  It must be the great power of God.’  She was poor and lived at a distance from Amoy.  She learned that the Christian who had charge of the chapel was of the same surname with herself.  She inquired whether she might not come down next Saturday, and lodge with his family.  She said she would bring with her some dried potatoes for her food.  Of course her request was readily granted.  From that time to the present, she has come the whole distance from her village to Amoy almost every week, in order to hear the Gospel.  She has two sons and one daughter.  She has brought both her sons with her, desiring that they also may become Christians.  The eldest, aged seventeen, is among our inquirers.  She has also brought some of her neighbors with her to hear the Word.  She has met with much opposition and persecution; but so far as we can learn, she has borne all with the meekness of a true disciple of Christ.  Since her baptism, she has rented a room in Amoy, that she may live within sound of the Gospel.  When she told me of this, I asked her how she expected to maintain herself, and whether she thought she should be able to earn a living at Amoy.  She replied that she trusted in God.  If she could not get as good food as others, she would eat coarser food.

“There is still a goodly number of inquirers at Amoy.  In our meeting for conversation with them to-day; we met with two very affecting cases.  They are lads, the elder being in his seventeenth year, and the younger in his thirteenth.  Their parents and friends bitterly oppose them in their determination to follow Christ.