he door, and I saw danger. She glared round the
place, and then she spied one man, and she shouted out something at
him: "Come out of that!" and, friends, he came out of that, in a
big hurry, too. He disturbed us very considerably. It was not the
woman so much as the man--we all pitied him as he went out.

'Those audiences are very mixed, and they are very curious to your
eyes. Sometimes I see those audiences, most of whom we do not know
anything about, listening to what I have to tell them, quite as
still as you are now--their pipes out, the smoke cleared away. They
lean forward and listen just as still as audiences in this country
sometimes listen when the preacher, in an interesting discourse, is
coming up to a division of his subject. And, friends, let me tell
you what it is that makes them listen best of all--it is the
central doctrine of the truth of Christianity. When we come to tell
them of how Christ left the surroundings of heaven, and came to
spend so many years in such very poor, unsympathetic company on
earth (and that is a subject that a missionary sometimes can talk
feelingly upon when he has been in a foreign country for some
time), when we can tell them that, and then come to the last and
greatest part of all: how Christ allowed Himself, for love of man,
to be nailed to the cross, and not only that, but kept in Him that
gentle spirit that made Him pray for those who were putting Him to
death--oh, friends, when we come to that and tell them of it--I
know that a Chinaman is degraded, corrupt, sensual, material, but
he has a human heart; and when you can get at the heart, it
responds to the story of the Cross. We want to do something in
drawing the net, and so, on this table in the corner, there is a
pile of books, and as it gets towards the time to close, I say to
the friends, "Now, you will soon be going away to your evening
meal; and as I am a foreigner, probably you have not understood all
that I have said;" and then I say, "Now, before you go, there are a
number of books upon this table, where you will find the whole of
this subject put down in black and white; will you just come up and
have a look at the books before you go?" We want, if possible, to
establish a point of contact with them, and so to get a little
private conversat