What is true of the advance of the pupils of Santee is indicative of the advance of the whole people. There is surely a bright day coming for the Indian.
MRS. CHAS. W. SHELTON.
THE CHINESE.
IMPERIUM IN IMPERIO.
The story which I have to tell this month may startle our readers east of the Rockies, though the hard fact underlying it has long been known to us on this Pacific slope, and especially in San Francisco.
On Sunday, June 5th, among seven Chinese who were baptised and received to Bethany church, was one young woman about fifteen years of age. She was the second female Chinese received to our fellowship, for out of more than 120 of that nation whom I have baptised, all but two have been males.
This young woman is remarkably beautiful in person, pleasing in her ways, and interesting in character. Her father is in China. Her mother, quite in accordance, perhaps, with the moralities of Chinese heathenism, had taken to herself another husband for the time being, and had gone to Arizona to ply her trade, the nature of which I do not certainly know, and therefore will not suggest. To raise funds she had pawned this girl for $250, but had paid $100 on her debt. A very estimable Chinaman, not a professed Christian, but one of whom we have hoped much, knowing the parties and hearing that little Ah Yung was being harshly treated, advanced the balance of the debt and took possession of the child. He placed her in the family of our helper, Jee Gam. Thus she became known to the lady teachers in our Central Mission, one of whom went up-stairs each evening to the apartments occupied by Jee Gam’s family, to give her a lesson, and also (as always) to speak to her of Christ.