nd again,
better equipped by reason of previous experience, but she also took with
her their infant boy.

The winter of 1876 in Peking was devoted to work more or less directly
bearing upon the Christian conquest of the nomad tribes.

'Since returning from Mongolia I have had here a teacher whom I had
come from the plains. I read some Buddhist classics with him, then
had him write to my dictation some of the more striking incidents
narrated in the Book of Daniel; then finally had him write for me
an explanation of the way of salvation through Jesus. The extracts
from Daniel were written mostly with the idea of accustoming him to
my dictation; but the explanation of Christianity was a tract that
I had long wanted to write, in which I sought to make it as plain
as possible, not only that Jesus does save, but also that there is
no salvation through any other name. The Religious Tract Society
has consented to print for me both the extract from Daniel and the
explanation of Christianity.'

During 1877 the ever-recurring question, inevitable, perhaps, and yet
very paralysing to any steady progress, as to whether it was really
worth while to continue labour in such a sterile field, came up once
more for discussion. In an elaborate report, designed rather to elicit
the views of the home authorities than to express his own, dated August
18, 1877, Mr. Gilmour depicts rapidly and clearly his relations, on the
one hand, to the workers in the station of the American Board at Kalgan,
and, on the other, to his colleagues of the North China Committee of the
London Society. The American Board had sent out another missionary, and
Mr. Gilmour was at first inclined to the view that, although working
independently, they might yet act practically as colleagues.

'In addition, the new man, Rev. W. P. Sprague, and I one day
undertook to climb a mountain together, and, by the time we got
half-way up, we discovered that our ideas about working together
quite agreed, and that there was a fair and good prospect of our
making good harmonious colleagues in one work, though we belonged
to different societies and hailed from different nations. Here,
then, the thing seemed to be accomplished; here was a colleague
ready to my hand, or I to his.'

But Mrs. Gulick, a most energetic and enthusiastic missionary to the
Mongols, died, her husband was inval