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THK BIBUi vSOClKTlKS. 369other Christians in that village that have been led to Christ byMr. Wu. He says he can never forget the influence of theGospel that he bought years ago. Rev. W. H. SKARS, Pingtu.I hope soon to baptize three men, one of whom was led toChrist through reading the Gospels and Acts which he boughtabout four years ago. Until last year he had no opportunity ofsee.ng a missionary and getting confirmed in his faith. Rev.S. H. TOWNSHKND, Kweitehfu.I gave a few copies to an old man eighty years of age, and heread and read again and, as he says, his dim eves got clear andhis heart found peace. He is now a member of our church. Hespoke in the testimony meeting the other day and could not sayenough in praise of this precious book which had brought him somuch peace and joy. Rev. J. A. BKUTEr,, Yunho.Teaching;the Hwa Miao.To many readers of the Year Book the wonderfulwork that has been done amongst the aborigines ofYunnan and Kweichow during the past seven or eightyears is a familiar story, and need not be repeated here.Two Gospels (Mark and John), translated into HwaMiao, have been published by the society, but just asthe language had to be reduced to writing, so thepeople who had never seen their speech in writtensymbols, had to be taught to read. Recognizing thatthe printed Scriptures would be useless without readersit has been our privileoe to provide some of the men setapart to instruct the thousands of Christians who wantto be taught to read. No part of the year s work hasgiven us greater joy. The subjoined report is from themissionary in charge :It is a pleasure to acknowledge our indebtedness to the BibleSociety for the work which the colporteur-readers have performed(and are daily performing) and which has only been renderedpossible by the generous support of your society. They spend aweek in a village and then pass on to another hamlet, and bycarefully planning the men s work we confidently expect thatpractically all the villages will have been visited by the colporteurs at least once, and in a number of cases twice, during thepresent year. Some four to five hundred visits will have beenpaid by the end of December, and nearly three hundred hamletswill have been given the opportunity of learning something more