reach of us, any reaped elsewhere. I would like to go into the
details of this comparatively new work but my limits forbid it.

IV. THE CHINESE POPULATION in America is, I believe, increasing. I
cannot prove this, and I state it only as an impression. The Exclusion
Law at its best is a leaky dike, and the tide washing up against it
leaps through and sometimes overflows. How this comes to pass I have
not space to tell, but while I do not believe that _all_ men have
their price, I suspect that some Custom House officials have not
always been proof against temptation, and are not now. And perjury in
the view of a non-christian Chinese is a venial offense except when so
clumsily committed as to lead to detection. But, no matter how these
new comers get here, once among us they are fish for our fishing, and
when one of them becomes a Christian and tells me he has been in the
country five or six or eight years, I do not feel bound to make him
confess the method of his entrance. He was a heathen then. There is no
probability whatever that the work of our mission will cease for lack
of material to work upon, till long after the present workers have
passed to their reward.

V. THE FINANCES. Under this head the tale is soon told. Appropriation
from the A. M. A. exhausted. The last check for this fiscal year from
the office in New York came to me on the 1st of March. The bills for
April are provided for, however. As to May, June, July and August,
bills, which if the work were done as it should be, could not even by
closest economy, be brought below $4,000, we wait for the payment of
upon God and upon those whom he has made to be the almoners of His
bounty. Our Chinese will probably give about $1,500. Who will give the
rest?

W. C. POND.

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Obituary.

Rev. C. L. Woodworth, D.D., died in Amherst, Mass., May 23, 1898, on
the day after the 78th anniversary of his birth. He was born in
Somers, Conn., was graduated at Amherst College in 1845, at East
Windsor Theological Institute in 1848, and was ordained to the
ministry in the Second Church in Amherst and became its pastor Nov. 7,
1849. He remained there till September 2, 1863 when he resigned to
become chaplain to the Twenty-seventh Massachusetts Regiment. In this
service he remained nearly a year, and in 1865 was appointed general
agent of the American Missionary Association for Massachusetts, and in
1866 its District Secretary for N