and Anna felt his one safety was in keeping with them all the time.  Little by little, the fellow straightened up and became stronger and able to do a respectable amount of work.”

“Meantime Anna was teaching him, as she had opportunity, about Christ.  Finally last New Year’s Eve, at the watch-night service led by Anna herself, among those who openly took their stand for Christ, was this poor fellow.  As far as we know he has led a straight life ever since.  He is still working about the hospital and there is no sign of the old dissipation.  When Anna left us a few weeks ago, the man’s grief was great, and it was this old ‘body-guard’ who sat up all night the one night after the coffin was sealed and remained in the house.  The old mother at sixty-seven years of age has learned to read the Bible and is a very earnest Christian.”

“I wish I could tell you how it impressed me as Dr. Stone told of the efforts of Anna to win that poor wretch of a fellow to Christ.  There wasn’t a thing attractive about him, in fact, just the opposite; but she saw that there was a soul there to save, and with no apparent thought of herself, no shrinking from a man of his type, she, with the true spirit of the Lord she so closely followed, bent every effort to save him from the thing that had cursed his own and his mother’s life.  I think I have never heard anything more beautiful than this story of Anna, who with all the delicacy of her nature, her pure, sweet womanhood, her love of the refined that always marked her, and her keen sensitiveness to the niceties of life, laid all, as a sacrifice to her Lord, in the background, and had at the same board with herself and her mother, that miserable man, thus helping him to fight the enemy of his soul and body.”

Her Master’s work was indeed everything, and self was nothing to Anna Stone.  She once said in a letter to Mrs. Joyce, “It has been a grief to my heart not to have seen more people who have means to support themselves come out to work for China.  I am hoping to find some means by which to support myself without getting pay from the society, to let others know that I am not working for money, but for the love of God which is in my heart.”

The influence of this young Chinese girl is but another witness to “the power of an endless life.”  She lives to-day in those whom she has inspired, and who seek to be as true as she.

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