ards Christ, but worships a supreme God in an
indefinite way, is he saved or not?

'"How can Christ save a man?

'"If a man prays to Christ to save him morn and even, but goes on
sinning meantime, how about him?

'"If a man prays for a thing, does he get it?

'"Do your unbelieving countrymen in England all go to hell?

'"Are there prophets now?

'"Is a new-born child a sinner?

'"Is one man then punished for another's fault?

'"Has anybody died, gone to heaven or hell, and come back to
report? [A Mongol has!]

'"Did Buddha live?" and so forth.

'[Answer, He lived, but did not do what is now said of him.]

'"If so, how do you know that the account of Christ is not made up
in the same way? Could not the disciples conspire to make the
Gospels?

'To these and all other questions I endeavoured to give proper
answers; and this, our most delightful and profitable talk, lasted
till there was just time for me to snatch a hasty meal before the
usual service at 7.30 P.M.'

Discussions of this nature were calculated to deepen thought and to
promote heart-searching on the part of the Christian worker. They also
illustrate some of the special difficulties which missionaries in China
and India have to meet. With an elaborate religious ritual and
literature, both Buddhist and Hindu can often, and do often, object
against Christianity many of those, sometimes obvious, sometimes
subtle, difficulties which the Gospel of Jesus Christ alone can remove,
and which it removes by sanctifying and dominating the heart.

In February 1873 Gilmour visited Tientsin for the first time since he
passed through it on his arrival in China. Here he took part in several
readings, temperance meetings, and religious services. At one of the
readings:--

'One joke happened. I was asked to give a recitation at a penny
reading for sailors. The piece was "The Execution of Montrose." I
got up in tragic style, said,

"Come hither, Evan Cameron,"

with the appropriate beckoning action, when a sailor in the middle
of the audience responded to the call, pressed his way out of the
passage, and was making for the platform. I could not stand this,
so I uttered a yell, and rushed off to hide myself, and it was some
time before the audience and speaker could compose themselves for a
fresh