Sketches from Formosa.

XXXVII
REPORT FROM COLPORTEUR Li PA
OUR senior colporteur, Brother Li Pa, has just supplied
me with his Report of a two months' book-selling and
preaching tour in the Chiang-hoa region, from which
some extracts may be given here. He made our chapel
at Toa-sia his headquarters, always returning there when
the heavy rains prevented him from moving about, or
when his knapsack required a fresh supply of books and
tracts.
He states that, on I4th April, he journeyed west to the
market-town of Gaw-che on the sea-coast, where he met
with some little opposition, but also with much encourage-
ment. While he was preaching in the public square of
the place, a poor drunkard stumbled into the crowd to
cause no small disturbance, and one man took the oppor-
tunity of stealing a number of his books. In spite of this,
however, he managed to sell one hundred and thirty-six
little pamphlets and tracts, to have several open-air
meetings, and have much conversation with the people in
their shops and houses. One scholarly wealthy-looking
man showed a spirit of great kindness, while another
friend considerately invited him to dinner.
On ist May he set out for the walled town of Tai-kah,
a place where the people are terribly given up to the
opium habit, but containing a few who have heard the
Gospel either at Toa-sia, or in our Mission Hospital.
There, three men pretended to be much interested in
what was said about the doctrine, obtained the large
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