. In brightest Asia. sen vessel to is the demonstration. Next to the missions of ourSouthern brethren, I was desirousof seeing the headquarters of theChina Inland Mission, also in Shang-hai. I had heard in America of thesplendid new building, the gift ofthe friends, and in part of the mis-sionaries themselves, of this mis-sion. I was scarcely prepared to seeso ample and fine accommodations,and such a beehive of varied activ-ities. The buildings stand on three sides of a large quadrangle. Along the front are several mission-houses, built in a row, some three stories in height. In th
. In brightest Asia. sen vessel to is the demonstration. Next to the missions of ourSouthern brethren, I was desirousof seeing the headquarters of theChina Inland Mission, also in Shang-hai. I had heard in America of thesplendid new building, the gift ofthe friends, and in part of the mis-sionaries themselves, of this mis-sion. I was scarcely prepared to seeso ample and fine accommodations,and such a beehive of varied activ-ities. The buildings stand on three sides of a large quadrangle. Along the front are several mission-houses, built in a row, some three stories in height. In the centre is a spacious hall for publicmeetings. Here, also, a prayer meeting is held weekly on Saturday nights. On one side of thecjuadrangle, facing inward, is a row of apartments, including parlors, dining-rooms, offices, mail-ing and shipping rooms, etc., with conveniences for the temporary living and lodgment of someforty missionaries in transit to and from their stations, or who may come in for periodic rest. On. HEADQUARTERS CHINA INLAND MISSION. 50 In Brightest Asia. a third side of the quadrangle are rooms for the temporary accommodation of riative workers who may come in from time to time. Here they can board themselves, doing their own cooking, spreading their mats, whole establishmentlooks like business, I assureyou. I received most cordialattention from Mr. Steven-son, the deputy superintend-ent in charge, and other mis-sionaries, and found I wasthere not wholly unknown,from my relations to , and from my arti-cles in Regions Beyond. When you add to thefacilities here reared twotraining-schools for all newarrivals,— one for men at GanKing, and one for women atYang Chow,—^.and also at Che-foo, inNorthern China, a first-class boarding-school for theirown children, also largely pat-ronized by English civil-service people, you will see that this is a most thorough-going who suppose that this mission is ephemeral or lacks organizat
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