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Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad. 37wonder that ouv missionaries in Syria arepleading for more help. In the south wherethe fieldis so vast, the wants of the mUlionsso pressing, and the laborers so few, it is nowonder that brother Elliott so persistentlycalls for more aid. And who ihat lives ortravels in those parts of the west where suchmultitudes are without the preaohing of thegospel and the regular ordinances of God'shouse, does not wish that the church had inher treasury a fund of a hundred thousanddollars with which to send all over ihat vastregion a hundred earnest and thoroughlyqualified evangelists, so that to the people thegospel and ihe whole truth might be preachedwithout money and without price.And ihere is another standpoint from whichthe laborer sees a vast fieldin whioh the peopleare perishing without the knowledge ofGod and for whom almost no man cares. Onthe Pacific Slope a hundred thousand idolworshipers need the gospel. Very few ofthembave heard it; and these few are so wrongedand maltreated by people called Ohristians, itcan hardly be expected that many of therawill become followers of Ohrist unless thepolicy ofthe government be changed or Ohristianshave more compassion for the strangersWho will go to preach it? Who will go tolive it before the people ? Who of our savedwomen will go to save the women of China?How long shall their sUent sorrows find no alleviation,or tbeir cries for help hear no re­in the land. Yet bere is a vast fieldvery invitingsponse from our mothers, our sisters, or ourto the hopeful as well as urgent to the daughters ? Nay, why do not the fatherscompassionate. Here is a harvest as great as and brothers ofour daughters and sisters sendthe laborers are few.But this view of our theme is too narrow.women to the rescue of women ?Let tbe testimony of another furnish an illustrationThree additional facts invite of my plea. our attention.A missionary who went1. Every Chinaman in California, truly converted,from California not long ago—Rev.C.R.Hager,may become a missionary. He may of the Congregational Churoh—writes thus :influence his own countrymen among whom " One of the unfortunate ones of earth, ofhe may become a worker in some other part whom there are thousands in China, tired ofof our country whither these foreigners are the drudgery of life,and ready to enter upon thescattering. Nearly every Christian Chinamanwho locates in an eastern or southern cityor town starts a Sabbath School among bisown people, or helps others to do so. Somuch the more seed is sown.2. Many who return to China have previouslylearned more or less of the doctrines and institutionsof the Christian religion and have beenfavorably affected by its divine influence.Some of the one hundred thousand stiUin ihe country, have become true disciplesof Ohrist and carry back totheir homes in the far off land thebible and the gospel and the love of theirSaviour. And thus every such loving disciplebecomes a missionary to some extent in China.They open the way for missionaries who follow,or they help those already there. Theirexample and their silent influence among thepeople with whom they had formerly gone asworshipers to the temples must tend to thefurtherance of the gospel. No more opiumsmoking, no more gambling, no more lying orstealing or Buddhistic superstition and paganidolatry, their very presence among tbeir ownformer friends must tell upon ihese for good.Gospel leaven works in pagan lands as in others.And all China must be leavened, who knowshow soou? The same seed that has producedsuch abundance in other lands will soon, bythe same divine blessing, grow up into aglorious harvest in the Flowery Kingdom.Who are to be the sowers? who the reapers?3. The condition of woman in China appealsmosi touchingly to the followers ofthe CompassionateOne. The gospel is her only hope.unknown and unseen of the next world ;.but let us notice her history. Some time sinceshe had been bought by an old man of 60years of age for his second wife, for wbomsome one hundred and seventy dollars had beengiven. In order to understand the young wife'sfeelings, we must understand in what estimationthese second wives are held. She notonly becomes the servant, or slave, of the husbandand parents of the husband, but of thefirst wife herself, who can beat and abuse herto any extent; and if she has any chUdrenthey are not considered her own, but the ohUd-