_his friend_
and tell him some things. He thought he did see him come in and then go
out before he could speak. He said, "I thought it was difficult, but I
joined with those who pray, and I find now it is only a _short_ way. I
am going above." With his last breath and his Bible open, he asked to be
shown the way, that he might go in it.

The influence of a genuine life is strongest at home, and so it comes
that the wife is seeking to follow her husband. There are other converts
with us now, but we shall never forget this first Gros-Ventre "friend,"
(madakina); and although the story of his life is not a peculiar one to
white men, nay for that very reason, we are glad to write this record of
a once lowly, but now glorified, believer.

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THE CHINESE.

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LOS ANGELES CONGREGATIONAL CHINESE MISSION.

BY REV. ROBERT G. HUTCHINS.

Our First Church has recently enjoyed two peculiarly impressive
occasions; one the anniversary on the 17th of last month, of the Chinese
school, established by Dr. Pond; the other the reception, on the 3d
instant, of six Chinese brethren to church membership. To appreciate the
significance of these scenes, one must remember how contemptuous is the
prejudice which prevails on this coast against these inoffensive
strangers.

Nine or ten young Chinamen delivered addresses at the anniversary. They
spoke with remarkable simplicity, perspicuity and accuracy of English
pronunciation. In view of their perfect self-possession and propriety of
manner in the presence of the crowded congregation, one could scarcely
realize that nearly all of them were utterly inexperienced in public
speaking. The success of these humble representatives gave a hint of the
possibilities of a Christianized China. One of the speakers gave an
account of the conversion, sickness, death and Christian burial of a
member of the school, a youth of eighteen. The heathen relatives and
friends had attributed the illness to the boy's desertion of the
religion of his fathers, and had begged him to allow the burning of
idolatrous incense. But he had calmly resisted their appeals, and, in an
alien land, far from his father and mother, had pillowed his dying head
on the breast of the Saviour of mankind.

Low Quong, who superintends the mission, and who is true-hearted,
prudent and influential with his countrymen, showed with clearness, the
relation