Never mind, I'll just tell Jesus all my
affairs; I cannot go away from Him. He is never too busy to talk to
me. Just you, too, tell Jesus all your troubles. He sees both you
and me.'

From the longer letters we select three or four, and give them exactly
as they were written. From them the character of many others, from which
only brief extracts can be taken, may be judged.

'Ch'ao Yang: April 10, 1887.

'My dear Sons,--I am well and thankful for it. I am getting on well
too, thank God. I have had terrible weather lately though. Daily I
have my tent--it is only a cloth roof on six bamboo poles--put up
in the market-place. We have had three days' wind. Eh, man, the
first day the dust was terrible. But I had lots of patients and
remained out all day. At last we had to take down our tent. It
could not stand. The tent was carried to the inn, but we remained
with our table till evening. You would hardly have known us for
dust. But patients came all the time. Next day the tent was blown
down twice. Once a man's head got such a smack with the bamboo tent
pole, but he said nothing and took it quite pleasantly. A peep-show
man near us got his show blown down and scattered about. He
gathered it up and went home to his inn.

[Illustration: JAMES GILMOUR'S TENT]

'I am so glad that the people like us and trust us and come about
us for medicines. Women came too. Boys came too. Just now the
school boys have holiday for the fair, and they stand for a long
time together looking at me doctoring the people. What the boys
like to see is a glass bottle of eye medicine which I bring out and
set up. Then I dip a glass tube in and press an india-rubber
bulb. The air comes out in the water in bubbles and rises up to
the surface, and the boys are so delighted to see it bubbling. They
will wait a long time and like to see it ever so often. They are
sometimes troublesome, then I send them away. When they are good I
shove the glass tube deep down into the bottle, and they are so
delighted to see the air bubbling up from the bottom.

'When a man comes to have a tooth pulled even the men are
delighted, and advise him to have it out. They want to see the fun.
Mothers send their little boys for medicine, and I am so pleased
with some of the li