about Christ’s teaching.  He would have no other lesson but in the Bible.” (Miss Worley writes of this pupil that he wishes now to become a missionary).  Of another of these three, Loo Quong writes:  “He is one of the best young men I ever knew, * * so kind, so quiet, so modest, so full of love.  I think he looks like our Lord when on earth.  He is always on hand at school.  When I asked him to join the Association, he said that he fully believed Jesus that he is the Saviour of his soul, ’but how can I be his disciple while I am in the gambling business?’ We explained to him how God would take care of those who gave up all for him, and the next night he told me he was ready to give it up and walk with Christians.”  Of the third, also, a good account is given, but I must not use more space on the Lights, but turn to the

SHADOWS—­One example must suffice.  I must not mention either place or person, lest harm come of it.  A teacher writes:  “I feel sure that two little boys whom you sent to assist in our anniversary will grow to Christian manhood, fed as they are on the Word.  With sorrow I compared with their surroundings those of our little ——­ ——­, and I write to know if something cannot be done.  Two years ago he entered the school, having come directly from China.  He has always been studious and well-behaved, loving his Bible and the gospel songs.  The mission boys tell me that those with whom he lives are not his parents, but that this man bought him in China.  The child remembers his mother and brothers.  He also remembers a man offering him something if he would go with him.  He did so and was carried off in a boat and sold.  His owner is very fond of him, but is away from home.  The wife does not care much for him.  Sometimes there are black and blue marks on his hands where he says she strikes him.  Once there was a small burned place on both his lips.  I asked him about it, and he said “Mamma.”  One of the boys told me that he talked too much and she put the hot poker on his lips.  I have heard that this man intends taking the boy back to China in a year or two, fearing that in this county he will lose him.  They are bad people, keeping an opium den.”

The shadow deepens when the question rises, “What can be done for this boy?” He is in the grip of an “Imperium in imperio,” to which some years ago I had occasion to refer in these columns.  Even Americans who know the facts and are eager to help him, feel as though it would be scarcely safe for them to rescue him.  Our wisest Chinese helpers say:  “Wait, watch over him, but don’t disturb existing relations.  It would break up our mission in that place.  Chinese would not dare to be identified with it.  The boy will soon come to understand his rights and will assert them for himself, and then you can help him.”  But it almost makes one’s blood boil to think that on American soil such counsel can be given and perhaps ought to be observed.

Bureau Of Woman’S Work.
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