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"RexTIIK CHRISTIAN LITKRATURK vSOCIETY. 327with all missionary work, ours may be classified aspreparatory, penetrative, and constructive. Many ofour books are meant to remove barriers of pride, ignorance, superstition and prejudice. When these are removed, there is still much to be done, but all goodpeople rejoice when they are removed, for it means thatwe have carried some of the outworks of the town ofMansoul. Even Robert Morrison and William Milnefound time to prepare geographies, almanacs, and toursof the world, and to come down to the present day, Dr.Griffith John has also prepared some books of generalknowledge, which are meant to be forerunners of theGospel. This literature of ours has been compared byDr. A. H. Smith, in his bookChristus," toaqueous vapor pervading the atmosphere, which, thoughit makes no external display, is preparing the way forfuture precipitation.But we have books which take the next step andare penetrative, or directly evangelistic. Our staff,because it has the necessary leisure, has produced someof the most excellent books of this description. But weremember that many a book, which is often only indirectly evangelistic, is much more effective with acertain class of readers than the openly evangelistic.Hence we prepare many books showing what theHeavenly Father, through His Son Jesus Christ, hasworked in the history of man and of nations, and we haverepeated proof that such books lead on to conversion.The third division of our books is the constructiveor educational. Besides works for schools and stationclasses, for special and general readers, we have a longand growinglist of books which are intended to comfortand edify the church. For this class of books there isdemand which grows with the growing of the church.Andrew Murray, S. D. Gordon, Storrs, Krummacher,Dr. Glover, A. B. Bruce, George Matheson, WilliamArthur, and many others, have a vast audience in Chinaby means of the Christian Literature Society.