Last  year  there  came  to  our  home  in  sweet  young  woman-
hood one  who,  with  glad  heart,  had  given  herself  to  God
for  China.  A  year  had  not  yet  passed,  and  God's  finger
touched  her,  and  she  slept.  Not  long  before,  in  writing  to
friends  in  the  home  land,  she  said :  "I  think  it  is  the  very
loveliest  thing  in  the  world  to  be  a  missionary."  With  all
my  heart,  after  these  fifteen  years  of  service,  I  want  to  say
to  you  to-day  that  I  do  feel  that  "it  is  the  very  loveliest  thing
in  the  world  to  be  a  missionary"— one  sent  of  God  to  tell
human  hearts  that  He  loves  them,  whether  it  be  in  China  or
at  home.  More  and  more  I  feel  that  it  has  been  a  high
and  holy  privilege  to  come  at  His  call  to  China.    I  fed  to-


474  LIFE  OF  LAURA  ASKEW  HAYGOOD.
day  that  if  I  had  a  hundred  other  lives  to  give— so  great
seems  the  need  for  His  witnesses  now  in  China,  and  so
wonderful  the  Of^xirtunity  to  serve  Him  here--that  I  would
count  it  all  joy  to  give  them  every  one  to  Him  for  China.
