It has been said that it is better to turn up something than to wait for something to turn up. So I bought a small outfit for making photographs. It is incomplete, but enough to get an idea of the art. After looking at some of my work, our county Judge was heard to say. "That's a good picture for that nigger." My summer school was nine miles away, and I came here every Friday evening, that I might practice at my new trade. To save the hire and feed of a horse, I always walked here and back. The way at times seems dark, but I take courage from the fact that roads to success must lead through hardships.
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The Chinese.
Review Of The Year.
BY REV. W.C. POND, D.D.
The fiscal year of our missions closed Aug. 31. I desire to set before the readers of the MISSIONARY a statement of the year's work, made as complete as the space at my command allows:
1. Seventeen missions have been sustained during a part or the whole of the year. Ten of these have had no intermission whatever, except for a day or two at the holidays, and in one instance a fortnight's vacation. Of the remaining seven, three are new missions, viz: Los Angeles, San Buenaventura and Tucson. The work at these points is full of interest and hope, and has indeed already begun to yield what seem to us saving results.