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another race whose ancestors have had the gospel 

 for fifty generations. Moreover, while the indi- 

 vidual can not be lifted out of his social and men- 

 tal habits and practices in a generation, while 

 abiding among those who are teaching him by 

 example the old ways, yet, marvelous as it may 

 seem, Christian Chinamen exhibit individual vir- 

 tues of the most sacrificing type as a result of 

 the acceptance of Christian doctrine. Chinamen 

 died in the Boxer uprising with all the abandon 

 to their Savior ever exhibited by the choicest 

 spirits of any race. 



In modern times there is no story exceeding 

 that of the faithfulness of Susi and Chuma, two 

 native Africans, the attendants of Dr. David Liv- 

 ingstone, who took charge of his remains after his 

 death in the heart of Africa. The care and intelli- 

 gence used in embalming his body, the resources 

 shown in disguising it for conveyance through 

 hostile tribes, the resistance even to the pressure 

 of English officials to bury it on the way, the per- 

 sistence when sick themselves through nine long 

 months against obstacles and difficulties of every 

 conceivable description, until at last they gave it 

 into the care of relatives and friends in London, 

 and all without promise of reward, reads like a 

 romance of loyal-heartedness and is almost un- 

 equaled in literature. Yet these men, whose virtue 

 shines out so suddenly and so brilliantly, had as 

 their progenitors for thousands of years native 



