I have been thinking also how we should train our people in benevolence. We must train the children. I have a little girl, to whom I gave a red cent and wished to teach her something. So I asked her to what she would give it--to the sick, or for the preacher, or for sending missionaries? “What do they send missionaries for?” she asked. “To teach the people God’s Word who have not heard it,” I answered. “But what will one cent do?” she replied. Said I, “If one hundred little girls should give a cent each, it would make a dollar.” My little girl had learned to sing and play a little on the organ. When the young men came in, they would ask her to sing for them; but after this she would answer, “I will if you will give me a cent.” When she had laid by five cents, I asked her if she was going to buy candy or nuts with it. “No,” says she, “I am going to give this to Mr. Singing Walker, our missionary to the wild Indians.” This, it seems to me, shows the way we are to train up our people, beginning with the children. * * * * * THE CHINESE. * * * * * HOME-LOVE VERSUS CHRIST-LOVE. To all persons familiar with missionary work in foreign lands the fact suggested by the title of this article is more or less familiar. It sometimes occurs, even in American families, that Christ enters “to set a man at variance against his father and even a daughter against her mother,” but this is unusual, so much so as to seem almost monstrous. When, as was the case last week, not far from my own field, the conversion of a daughter provokes the mother to disown her and to bid her leave home and look out for herself, we are set wondering what strange madness has wrecked that mother’s heart, and we ask, Is she possessed of the devil? But this experience is usual in the turning of our Chinese to Christ. Scarcely any of them can escape it. And the questionings and struggles and sorrows are often very severe, and I have, of late, been specially impressed by them. Thus, Mrs. Shattuck, of Santa Barbara, writes: “We have three or four anxious to join the Association [thus making profession of faith in Christ--W. C. P.], but they are afraid of their own families. Tong is a good Christian boy,--as a pupil and as a singer equal to any China boy I ever had. When he talked with me he trembled like a leaf, saying, ‘I do so love your Jesus, but my family be angry. What shall I do?’”