came
that her husband was ill, and she left in July, after a stay of a little
less than four months, during which she had addressed large audiences in
approximately one hundred meetings in England and Ireland. The impression
she had made there may be gathered from a paragraph which appeared in
_India's Women and China's Daughters_, after she had left:

"Those who saw Mrs. Ahok's earnest face, and listened to some of
the most simple and heart-stirring words ever heard on an English
platform, will recall the impression her plea for her countrywomen
then made.... If God should open the way for Mrs. Ahok again to
visit England, she will be welcomed as one who brought home the
reality of missions to many a conscience in England, and revived
the flagging spirits to zeal for the Lord of Hosts!"

Mrs. Ahok went home by way of Canada, accompanied by Miss Mead, one of the
new workers for whom she had been pleading. She did not realize how
seriously ill her husband was, for he had written cheerfully: "Tell Mrs.
Ahok that I have been a little ill for some weeks and that now I am staying
at the Ato house. I find it very restful staying quietly at the old
home.... Tell Mrs. Ahok, please, not to worry at all about me." On saying
good-bye to friends in England Mrs. Ahok told them that she hoped to come
again, and that the next time it would be with her husband. She was thus
spared the keen anxiety throughout the long journey which she must have
suffered, had she realized her husband's condition. She wrote back to Miss
Bradshaw from Montreal, telling of her safe arrival and expressing her
gratitude that although she and her maid had both suffered severely from
sea-sickness, they had been well taken care of by "a woman who was a
worshipper of God." At Vancouver she had to wait some days for her steamer,
and she wrote from there on July 26:

"All well, all peace. From the time I left England a month has
passed away. I keep thinking constantly of the meetings in England
which we had together. Now we are in this place waiting for the
ship and therefore we had this very good opportunity for work. I
have been invited by the minister of the church here to speak at
meetings. I have done so six times. Because this is a new place,
and there are men and women who do not at all believe the Gospel,
but who like to hear about Chinese ways and customs, therefore they
all greatly wish m