The Spirit of missions . THE REALIZING EIGHTY miles from Shanghai, onthe Grand Canal, is the im-portant city of Wusih. It has alarge trade in silk, grain and! boat-building, and is the centre of a richI country district, with many smaller\ towns. As long ago as 1879 the members ofthe China staff planned a chain of mis-sions, reaching from the city of Shang-hai across country nearly three hundredmiles to the city of Wuhu on theYang-tse. The failure of the Church atI home to send out a sufficient number ofmen to make extension possible has de-1 layed the realizing of this ideal. Just after Easte
The Spirit of missions . THE REALIZING EIGHTY miles from Shanghai, onthe Grand Canal, is the im-portant city of Wusih. It has alarge trade in silk, grain and! boat-building, and is the centre of a richI country district, with many smaller\ towns. As long ago as 1879 the members ofthe China staff planned a chain of mis-sions, reaching from the city of Shang-hai across country nearly three hundredmiles to the city of Wuhu on theYang-tse. The failure of the Church atI home to send out a sufficient number ofmen to make extension possible has de-1 layed the realizing of this ideal. Just after Easter, 1901, BishopI Graves sent the Rev. P. N. Tsu to had armed himself with letters of in-troduction from friends in Shanghai; who had friends in Wusih. One of theseI letters secured for Mr. Tsu a warm wel-I come, and to it may be traced the successof his mission. This letter was writtenj by a man who was formerly a teacher in what is now St. Johns in St. Johns he had been anxiousto learn English,
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