door; you leave the door open, not watch; you think no thief come? God made all things. He is the one to worship. Idols cannot help you.’ They say to me: ‘You no worship idol, by and by you have no house, no children, no money.’ I answer: ‘Other nations that not worship idols have more money and better houses than any we have in China. We go work for them to get money. We do not have to worship idols to get money.’ I say: ‘Whomsoever worship gods made by men’s hands, it is transgress to God.’ They say: ‘How is this our nation so great, so many wise men all worshipping idols; are they all transgress to Him? Is your experience higher than they?’ I say to them: ‘The idols and ancestors have no spirit nor power to help them any.’ Once in a while the people are crowded at my door. They shouted and said: ‘Well, if you dare to destroy your gods and ancestors, and nothing happen to your family, we will believe you.’ I then took a chair, got up in the parlor, took the goddess which my wife put there, and most all the family help her. I take a hatchet, chop it into pieces, and boil the tea with it. Oh! what astonishment to them! So they disperse. After that, my wife and my son both received the doctrine of the Bible, and every morning and evening we all would offer prayer, and at our meals asked God’s blessing. My wife more faithful than I. She willing to put away the idols, and like to go from house to house, when she have a chance, to tell the people about Jesus. My son attends school. All his school-mates laugh at him, but still he pray to God that He give him more faith, that he not care about the laughing. At the school they have a person’s name which they required to worship, that he may help them study and learn; but my son not want to worship him, after he believe in Jesus. He told them: ‘That’s nothing, only a piece of paper.’ The teacher compel him to do like the others. One day a woman in my town came to me, and asked me to pray for her son. He gone away from her. He send no money to support her. She said: ‘Pray for me that he thinks what he doing now, and may change his conduct, send something to help me.’ I knelt down with her, and pray God that He answer our prayer and bless this woman. Not many days after this God answered that prayer, and sent the money, and, with it, a new heart, for she believe, and thank our Heavenly Father, and came to be a Christian. Now a few others with her and my family keep the holy Sabbath, and have a meeting together. Sometimes they go to the mission station a few miles off, to hear the Gospel. Before, when I went back to China [_i.e._, on his former visit to his home], no Christian or missionary at that part of the province of Canton, but last year I find several hundreds become Christians not far from my home. Many times I go to hear the missionary talk about Christ. Oh, how I thank the Lord that He sent the missionary over there to speak the Gospel to them, and take away the darkness, that they may, by and