On the same day the first Chinese child of our church was baptized, under the “Christian name,” as her father phrased it, of Lily Lee. This father was one of the first group of Chinese converts whom it was my privilege to receive to the church. He returned to Canton about two years since, and sought out, at one of the missions, a Christian wife; and so, in his one room in California, he has now a Christian home. On the same day, also, Wah Yin was baptized and received to the Congregational Church in Petaluma—the first-fruits, so far as church membership is concerned, of our mission there. He is a very interesting Christian, and has endured hardness, as a good soldier. He has been not only reproached, but whipped, by his countrymen, for the name of Christ. But he says “it didn’t hurt much,” and we should never have known of the fact, but that one who took part in it boasted of it openly. LU LUNE, for nearly a year a missionary helper, was offered by his uncle a position as Chinese foreman at the salmon fisheries near Collinsville. The work there knows no Sabbath, and the Chinese settlement abounds in gambling and opium dens and in petty idol shrines. The position was, in a worldly point of view, very desirable, but Lu Lune refused to go unless he could have his Sabbath, and could be permitted to be just such a Christian there as he would be at the mission-house itself. It is a token of Lu Lune’s own desirableness that his terms were accepted, and he is there, trying, as opportunity offers, to preach Christ, and letting the light of a Christian example shine all the while. I may add that this is the fourth among the Chinese members of our church who has been placed in a position of trust by persons who knew nothing and cared nothing about their Christian professions. It is a tribute paid to their trustworthiness. LEE HAIM, recently appointed as a helper, has now been for two months in Sacramento. The increase in attendance and interest at the school speaks well for his zeal and aptitude. Under his influence, the Christian members of the school have rented a small building for a sort of Home, and he uses it as a chapel. I will quote a few words from his letter of June 6th, correcting his English a little, for, while he, like Wong Sam, excels most of his countrymen here in knowledge of Chinese, he is also like Wong Sam in his trouble with English idioms: