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36 them to the great ! If we aggregate all the workers in these 11 provinces, and allow to each 100,000 people as his or her sphere of labour, there will remain over 100 millions without missionary supply. Add to them the 83 millions beyond the reach of the gospel in the seven provinces first mentioned, and we have an aggregate exceeding 183 millions absolutely without those tidings which the so long ago commanded to be carried to. My Christian reader, are you quite sure that it is not your duty to carry the gospel to these perishing ones?

To tabulate these parts then, we find in March, 1884, there were:—

Many years ago the following incident occurred as the writer of these pages was journeying to Sung-kiang Fu, a large city in the province of, and is quoted from a journal written about the time.

"In the afternoon of the second day its walls loomed in sight, and I spoke of going ashore to preach the gospel. In the same boat was a Chinaman as passenger, who had been in England; and who, when there, went by the name of Peter. He had heard the gospel, but had not experienced its saving power. I had been speaking to him on the preceding evening about his soul's salvation, and he had been moved to