The Chinese inhabitants at Oroville are very kind to the Christian Chinese.  They never trouble them and always send their boys to the evening school.  I heard not long ago from their teacher, that the whole mission house has been renovated and a new floor put down at the expense of the brethren and scholars.

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  CHIN GAING IN CHINA.

[EXTRACT FROM AN ADDRESS IN ALAMEDA, CAL., BY CHIN GAING.]

It is over eleven years since I left my home in China.  Near the end of 1882 I began to attend the mission school in San Francisco.  After being there about two years I joined the Christian Association, and six months from then I was baptized and joined Bethany Church.

Two years ago I returned to China.  My friends there knew that I had changed my religion, and so, when I went back they asked me many questions.

My relatives wanted to know about the people in this country, what religion they had and what gods they worshiped.  And whether the Chinese who went there believed the same as the American people.

I told them we believed in one God.  They said, “Which one?”

I answered, the one that created the heaven and the earth, and all things in the world and the sea.  The God who has all power and whom we ought to worship.

My mother then came up and said:  “Do not talk such things; we are Chinese and must keep our customs.”

I said I could not keep those which were against God.  So they said:  “If you have anything good, then keep it.”

While in China I could not help seeing how much the people spent in {139} foolishness.  They have so many idol processions, which cost a great deal of money.  The people gladly give to keep up their worship, as they are in darkness and know not the name of Jesus, which is the only name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved.

But how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard?  And how shall they hear without a preacher?

And so it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace.”

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BUREAU OF WOMAN’S WORK.

MISS D.E.  EMERSON, SECRETARY.

  WOMAN’S STATE ORGANIZATIONS.

 CO-OPERATING WITH THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.

ME.—­Woman’s Aid to A.M.A., Chairman of Committee, Mrs. C.A. 
Woodsbury, Woodfords, Me.

VT.—­Woman’s Aid to A.M.A., Chairman of Committee, Mrs. Henry
Fairbanks, St. Johnsbury, Vt.

CONN.—­Woman’s Home Miss.  Union, Secretary, Mrs. S.M.  Hotchkiss, 171
Capitol Ave., Hartford, Conn.

N.Y.—­Woman’s Home Miss.  Union, Secretary, Mrs. C.C.  Creegan,
Syracuse, N.Y.

OHIO.—­Woman’s Home Miss.  Union, Secretary, Mrs. Flora K. Regal,
Oberlin, Ohio.

ILL.—­Woman’s Home Miss.  Union, Secretary, Mrs. C.H.  Taintor, 151
Washington St., Chicago, Ill.