Mistakes Of Missionaries

Come behind the curtain with me whila I whisper into your ear a few of the mistakes made by missionaries, who talk so much about the mistakesof the heathen. One evening an English missionary in Peking took a friend who was visiting him to a regular Chinese theater. It happened that the play for that evening was a burlesque on foreign preaching. A Chinaman dressed up to represent a foreigner came upon the stage with nis arms fnll of books, attended by his Chinese servan t. He began to preach a mock sermón, making the mistakes in talking which a foreigner is likely to make. These mistakes were received vnh bursts of laughter from the audience, to whom the books were distributed. The fnn carne to a climax when the preacher, after delivering a sentence particularly full of laughable miatakes, tnrned to his servant and said: "How did I speak: Did I do pretty well?" and the servant replied with great gravity: "The foreign teacher speaks the Chinese language exceedingly well. No mistakes at all were