Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Is there some desert or some pathless sea Where Thou, good God of angels, wilt send me ? Some oak for me to rend; some sod, Some rock for me to break; Some handful of His corn to take And scatter far a6eld, Till it, in turn, shall yield Its hundred fold Of grains of gold To feed the waiting children of my God ? Show me the desert, Father, or the sea. Is it Thine enterprise ? Great God, send me. —£. E. Hale. LIFE AT PAD TING FU PAO TING FU was adopted as a station of the North China Mission in the spring of 1873, at the annual meeting held in Peking. It was especially attractive as a possible place of interior residence. It was the provincial capital and all the provincial officers were located there, though the governor, as Viceroy of Chihli, selected Tientsin for his main residence, spending only the winter months at Pao Ting Fu. Eev. Isaac Pierson and Dr. A. O. Treat, stationed at Yii Chou in the mountains, felt their isolation and en route to Peking visited Pao Ting Fu. Their report was favorable and the mission easily acceded to their request to be appointed to the new charge. Their coming attracted much attention. They were, kindly received and found some friends. One incident is full of special interest. Eev. W. C. Burns, the missionary of the Irish Presbyterian Church, the well-known translator of the "Pilgrim's Progress" into the Mandarin speech, had passed through the city in his evangelistic tours south of Peking. He had visited a village fifty miles south of Pao Ting Fn, had taught a few men and women the gospel story. Among these was a Mr. Meng, a reading man, thoughnot a graduate. Some years later, Mr. Meng and two of his companions started out for Peking to find Mr. Burns. On the streets at Pao Ting Fu they saw the two foreigners and followed them to... --This text refers to the Paperback edition.