Readers of the MISSIONARY have heard from Jee Gam and Wong Sam several times heretofore. Hong Sing is the one last added to our list;--for five years a Christian, and during most of that time the leader among the pupils in our Bethany school, and my interpreter when I spoke to them. He understands English well; talks it quite easily and intelligibly; but when he comes to write it, like most of our brethren, he gets it twisted badly. The idioms of his native tongue are very unlike ours. He went to Petaluma, expecting, for the most part, to support himself as a house-servant, accepting, however, low wages in consideration of having time for missionary work; but he found that the house-work crowded the Lord’s work so hard that he seemed to be accomplishing little, and was almost discouraged. He wrote, a month ago, as follows: “I write a few words to let you know that I have a place and been working a few days; but not a steady work, because that man was sick; so I take his place till he get well. It is pretty hard to get a place. And I tell you about the school. It is very small. Evening I be present at 8 o’clock and explain to them. After school close I take fifteen minutes for Bible lesson. I try to explain to them as I can. I thought I come back to San Francisco, but I will wait a little longer, as much our people here [many of our people are here], but most all like gambling. I do not know what is the matter, they wont come. I heard somebody say, because they have been learning for awhile, and not understand the words what it meant; so they don’t come any more. I hope soon to have time to go out to ask come again. I am very sorry and expends [since you expend] so much for the school. It seems to be sow, having no reap [seed-sowing, but no harvest]. Yet ‘my sheep hear my voice.’ We must try to do the best way.” He concluded that the best way was to abandon everything else and give himself to mission work, asking only--since we could afford nothing more--that we pay the cost of his board; and it is on that basis he is working now. From one of the letters of Lee Haim, from Sacramento, I give the following extract: “Now I will tell you the TRIALS OF WONG THONG