e let us be doing for Jesus all we can, telling people about
Him and trying to persuade them to be His people. Are your
schoolfellows Jesus' boys? Do you ever tell them of Him? Tell them,
my dear sons.

'I hope to get letters from you in about a month.

'Good-bye, my dear boys.

'May you be good and diligent, and then you'll be happy. Jesus can
make you glad.

'Your loving Father,
'JAMES GILMOUR.'

Mrs. Meech had shown much motherly kindness to her little nephew
Alexander, and only a few months after he had died she herself lost a
little son. Mr. Gilmour, on hearing the sad tidings, wrote to her as
follows:--

'Mongolia: March 25, 1888.

'My dear Mrs. Meech,--Many congratulations and condolences with
you. Your little son has gone to Emily. She'll look after the
little man as you looked after her little man. Just fancy! we have
family connections in heaven not a few, and ever increasing. I hope
you are now getting better and going on all right.

'I am much cheered by the good news of soul movements in the West
Mission. May they continue and increase!

'With many prayers for you all, and kept in constant remembrance of
you all by the date block,

'Yours in loving sympathy,
'JAMES GILMOUR.'

'May 30, 1888.

'I am doctoring a little homeless lad's head here. I put on
ointment all over it to-day. He cried. I said I had medicine that
would stop the pain, and brought out six cash--one farthing--and
told him to go and have a bowl of buckwheat meal strings. All
laughed, he stopped crying, and did not seem to feel the pain after
that. Most of the people in the town are much impressed with the
improvement in the boy's head. Before he came to me I saw a Chinese
medicine-man poking at the lad's head with a straw. When he came I
rubbed on ointment with my finger. The bystanders were much pleased
to see I was not averse to touching the poor dirty lad's sore head.
Jesus touched a leper, and I like to do things like what Jesus
would do. That is the right way, boys. Always think what Jesus
would have done, and do l