. The story of the China Inland Mission . heir twolittle children, to occupy, as they hoped, the newpremises. But these were still unfinished, and thefriendly inn near the West Gate had to becometheir home. For a full month they lived on inthese crowded quarters, suffering much from thenoise and heat, but thankful to be within the cityunder any circumstances. At last, after manytedious and trying difficulties with the old landlord,they were enabled to move into the newly finishedpremises, and commence arrangements for moreregular work amongst the people. The house wasin a quiet corner, though
. The story of the China Inland Mission . heir twolittle children, to occupy, as they hoped, the newpremises. But these were still unfinished, and thefriendly inn near the West Gate had to becometheir home. For a full month they lived on inthese crowded quarters, suffering much from thenoise and heat, but thankful to be within the cityunder any circumstances. At last, after manytedious and trying difficulties with the old landlord,they were enabled to move into the newly finishedpremises, and commence arrangements for moreregular work amongst the people. The house wasin a quiet corner, though centrally situated, and neara busy street. For nearly eight weeks, wrote Mr. Williamson,towards the end of August, we have been livinghere in quietness and peace. We hold no publicmeetings as yet, for they would only cause disturb-ance ; but we receive and converse with all whocome in, and sell books and tracts to those thatwish for them ; and in this manner have reason tohope that some good has been done. One old man REGIONS BEYOND. 393. MR. AND MRS. WEADoWa AND CHILDRrN. appears to be an interested inquirer ; and latelyseveral more have been visiting us occasionally. Just one month after this the literary examina-tions commenced, and the city began to fill withstudents, to the number of fifteen or twenty some time no disturbance occurred ; but know-ing the unruly nature of such a body of men, andtheir special hatred of foreigners, the little householdon the quiet street thought it well to remain asunobserved as possible while the influx again at this time, Mr. Williamson says :— On Tuesday, November 2nd, a considerable number ofpeople came, prompted by curiosity, to see us, . . and manyof them went away evidently agreeably surprised to find 394 THE CHINA INLAND MISSION. that we were very much like themselves, and could speakin their own language. On the morning of the 3rd, welearned that a placard in large characters had been postedup in front of
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