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land. They are with us and we have but to open our hearts and our
churches to them and they will come in. They _are_ coming in; not in
large numbers but one by one. In the church of which my husband has
been the pastor for nearly ten years there are over seventy Chinese
members--about one-third of our whole membership.

Many inquire how Chinese converts are tested. They join the Christian
Association on probation and after a test of six or eight months are
recommended to the church. Then they come before a committee of the
church and are examined, and after studying the articles of faith, in
their own language, for several weeks they are propounded for church
membership, and if they prove satisfactory are baptized and come into
full fellowship with the church. They are not hurried into the church
and are themselves timid and prefer to wait.

We have no work among the Chinese women that we can call our own.
Both Presbyterians and Methodists have such a work in San Francisco,
and it divides into very little sections what can be at best but a
small work, because there are only three or four hundred Chinese
women in San Francisco, and not a tenth of these accessible. But if
means would allow we would be glad to attempt a work among the women
at Sacramento, where nothing is done for them. With our very limited
resources we can save more by working among the thousands of men and
boys.

But we have much work _by women_ of whom I would like to make
mention. Patient and heroic, prayerful and soul-saving have been
their efforts among the Chinese. I would like to tell you of one who
has recently gone to her reward. Before leaving my home two months
ago I called upon her and found her strength failing. But she was
hopeful respecting her recovery, and the strongest incentive she had
to get well was that she might have more opportunities to tell the
story of Jesus to her boys, as she called those in the Chinese
school. And when death came to her, six Chinese acted as pall-bearers
at her funeral, at her own request. The church was more than half
filled with Chinese, and the scene was touching in the extreme, as
one by one they went to look upon her face for the last time.

You are all, doubtless, more or less familiar with the _American
Missionary_, and read from time to time Mr. Pond's reports found
therein. I will give a few statistics quoted from my husband's
report, read recently before the General Association of California