If the life of James Gilmour be looked at altogether apart from the results that can be entered in tables of statistics, how splendidly inspiring it is! Faithful to his Master, faithful to his work, although the Master _seemed_ to delay the blessing, although the work wore down the worker. 'I,' said St. Paul to the thankless Corinthian Church, 'will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less? But be it so.' And in the Epistle to the Romans he applied to the Jews who were resisting the Gospel the ancient words of Isaiah: 'But as to Israel He saith, All the day long did I spread out my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people. I say then, Did God cast off His people? God forbid.' Nor will God cast off the Israel of China, or the Mongols who gave to the faithful teacher respect, attention, and in a way the love of their hearts, but who as yet have not surrendered those hearts to their true Lord. James Gilmour, in season and out of season, in almost constant solitude, in superabounding physical labours that often overburdened him, and once nearly broke him down, in the long disappointment of the most cherished hopes, and under the constant strain of what would have crushed any but a giant in faith, lived a life which, if it taught no other lesson, was yet well worth living to teach this--that Jesus Christ can and does give His servants the victory over apparent non-success, after the most vehement and long-sustained effort to secure success, and that this is the greatest victory possible to renewed and sanctified human nature. PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW STREET SQUARE LONDON CHEAP EDITION. Crown 8vo. 2s. 6d. cloth boards. JAMES GILMOUR OF MONGOLIA: _HIS DIARIES, LETTERS, AND REPORTS._ [Illustration: Sincerely yours James Gilmour] EDITED AND ARRANGED BY RICHARD LOVETT, M.A. _Author of 'Norwegian Pictures,' 'The Printed English Bible,' 'London Pictures,' &c._ PUBLISHED BY THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY, 56 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON. [P.T.O. * * * * * Press Notices OF THE LIFE OF GILMOUR. 'The story of James Gilmour will, if we mistake not, take a place of its own in modern missionary literature. To a world devoted so much to mercenary interests, and a Church too given to take things easily, the life is at once a rebuke and an appeal not easily to be forgotten.'--CHRISTIAN WORLD.