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Rh remark wished to show how earnestly Mr. Chyeng was "doing" the doctrine.

He soon gave abundant evidence of his true repentance and his sound conversion. Among other sins that he confessed in public was the way he had ill-treated his poor young wife, who had died several years before. He said she lay in her room sick and helpless for a long time, and then in deep distress he cried: "O, if I could only now remember that I ever just once did anything for her! O, if I had given her just one drink of water!" Then he went on to tell how he cursed her because she died on New Year's day, and thus kept him from having a good time with his friends. He begged all to pray for him that God would forgive his sins and help him to lead a holy life. He is now one of our preachers, and is working in one of our most important city Churches, though he spends much time in traveling in the country and preaching to the humble village people. He is a preacher that needeth not to be ashamed. Many of his sermons would do credit to many a man who writes D.D. after his name. He is much loved and trusted by those who have known him from the beginning of his Christian life.

Yun Che-ho. — I now have the pleasure of introducing to you the Hon. T. H. Yun, the first Korean who ever joined the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Mr. Yun is entirely different from the other friends to whom you have been introduced. He is a gentleman both by birth, and by practice. He is a son of one of the leading men of the kingdom, his fa-