ure from points where
there seemed to be none to care for these souls, has been too great,
for me to think of using any of our limited resources for the
purpose of crowding in where brethren of another name were working.
And it is only because the city has now become so large, and the
Chinese population in it covers so great an area, and the number of
our own brethren there is so considerable, and their appeal for a
mission so urgent, and their assurance so full that it could not now
be a rival to other missions, but rather a welcome co-worker with
them, that I consented to resume. The result is gratifying indeed. No
less than seventy-five were enrolled as pupils the first month. An
Association of Christian Chinese has been formed, having already a
large membership, and the purpose and promise of vigorous Christian
work. The teacher in charge of the mission is Mrs. C.A. Sheldon, long
connected with our work in San Francisco, and than whom no teacher
ever employed by us endeared herself more to her pupils or wrought
more successfully on their behalf. We have reason to believe that
from the start the evangelistic spirit will be strong in this
mission, and I look to see many turning from darkness to light, and
from the power of Satan unto God.

2. The next item of greatest interest relates to our new mission at
Tucson, Arizona. It closed its operations for this fiscal year with
the month of May, not because of any decrease of interest, but for
the reason that the extreme heat of the summer months at that place
forbids exertion, and compels alike in things religious and things
secular, a long vacation. Here, too, an "Association" has been formed
of eleven members, who in joining it, forsake idolatry and profess
themselves followers of Christ. The work has been greatly furthered
through the deep interest taken in it by the pastor, Rev. H.H. Cole,
and many members of his church. Yong Jin, one of our evangelists, has
spent nearly two months with this mission, and I give in his own
language an account of the closing exercises: "Last evening we had a
pleasant time, and invited all of the Sunday-school teachers and some
other friends to come to the school-room with us. It has over forty
Americans and over twenty Chinese, make the room full of people. Our
brethren or scholars recite some Scriptures, and I read a report on
what I think." Then follows his report, from which I quote a few
sentences: "This school was founded on the 2