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Show as one in the pleadings that went up before the mercy seat. A day or two only passed before this young man came out into the light of a new life and began an earnest work for Christ, which he continued throughout his college course, and has now been prosecuting for many years as a missionary to China." In 1852 my father and mother sailed for one hundred and sixty-four days to reach Qhina and with only three brief'^its to America, aggregating four years, they lived and are both buried in Foochow, my fjpother dying in 1883, and my farrier in 1905, the sixth in seniority of over twenty-six hundred missionaries in the Celestial empire. No honors came to my father in America, hut his memory is still revered by the Chinese who knew him, both as a preacher and as a teacher. It was my desire to be, like my father, a missionary in China. But that was not to be. In three years spent in the government service at Foochow, during President Arthur's administration, I caught some of my father's spirit and have since tried to apply it in the educa- 11 |