CONTENTS

CHAP.PAGE
I. The Power of Prayer[1]
II. The Call to Service[7]
III. Preparation for Service[13]
IV. Further Answers to Prayer[19]
V. Life in London[24]
VI. Strengthened by Faith[30]
VII. Mighty to Save[35]
VIII. Voyage to China[39]
IX. Early Missionary Experiences[45]
X. First Evangelistic Efforts[49]
XI. With the Rev. W. C. Burns[57]
XII. The Call to Swatow[70]
"The Missionary Call": Words and Music[75]
XIII. Man Proposes, God Disposes[77]
XIV. Providential Guidance[92]
XV. Settlement in Ningpo[98]
XVI. Timely Supplies[105]
XVII. God a Refuge for us[110]
XVIII. A New Agency needed[116]
XIX. Formation of the C. I. M.[121]
XX. The Mission in 1894[126]
The Mission in 1902[128]
Stations of the C. I. M.[131]
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MAP OF CHINA
Showing the Stations of the China Inland Mission; Corrected to June 1900To face page [131]

ILLUSTRATIONS

1. Portrait of J. Hudson Taylor[Frontispiece]
2. The "Lammermuir" partyFacing ["Contents"]
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3. Honorary banner presented to a missionary[1]
4. A heavy road in North China[7]
5. Salt junk on the Yang-tsi[13]
6. Travelling by mule cart on "the great plain"[19]
7. Ch'ung-k'ing, the Yang-tsi, and mountains beyond[24]
8. Water gate and Custom house, Soo-chow[29]
9. View on the Kwang-sin River[30]
10. Temple and memorial portal[34]
11. "Compassionate heart, benevolent methods"[35]
12. Outside the wall of Gan-k'ing[38]
13. The new girls school at Chefoo[39]
14. Entrance to the Po-yang lake[44]
15. A fair wind, at sunset, on the lake[45]
16. A view on the grand canal[49]
17. Down the Yang-tsi on a cargo boat[57]
18. East gate and sentry box, Bhamô, Burmah[69]
19. Farmhouse, with buffalo shed attached[70]
20. A fishing village on the lake near Yünnan Fu[77]
21. Teng-yueh, the westernmost walled city in China[91]
22. A small temple near Wun-chau[92]
23. Group of Christians at Lan-k'i, Cheh-kiang[97]
24. A boat on the Red River, Tonquin[98]
25. Students' quarters, Gan-k'ing Training Home[104]
26. A Mandarin's sedan chair[105]
27. A presentation banner (a mark of high respect)[110]
28. View on the Po-yang lake[116]
29. A village on the grand canal[121]
30. The battlements of Pekin[126]
31. Native woodcut of a landscape[131]
32. Elder Liu and wife, Kwei-k'i[136]

The hearty thanks of the Mission for the use of photographs and sketches are hereby tendered to Rev. George Hayes for Nos. 4 and 6; Dr. G. Whitfield Guinness for Nos. 8, 12, 16, 25, and 28; Miss Davies for No. 23; Mr. Thomas Selkirk for Nos. 18 and 21; Mr. J. T. Reid for Nos. 14, 15, and 27; Mr. J. S. Rough for No. 30; Mr. Grainger for No. 19; Mr. E. Murray for No. 13, and also to other friends unknown by name.

CHAPTER I