Still he was determined to obtain the palm of being the first circumambulator of the earth.

So much for the buildings. Now as to the workers and methods of work. I have at present only two evangelists engaged in evangelistic work-one working in Hsin Tʻi and one in Han-chʻuan with Rev. Mr. Nieh. The others have all been dropped or put to school-teaching, and two are dead.

You can't keep pissing away your money like this!

Their mother […] was busy in the mean time in keeping up her connections, as she termed a numerous acquaintance, lest her girls should want a proper introduction into the great world.