Excerpt from Rambles in Central China As we leave Kiukiang, the river flows between two provinces Kiangsi on the left bank, and on the right, our province Hupeh. Hupeh is the central province of China. It is about half as large again as England and Wales, with about thirty million folks in it, and not more, perhaps, than two Protestant missionaries to each million. And this is only one of eighteen provinces, you know. Some are not nearly so well supplied with missionaries as Hupeh in one or more there is no resident missionary at all. In China we have a continent rather than a country, a continent as large as Europe if we leave out Turkey. Do not let any cheering stories of success, therefore, deaden the awful cry of a fifth of the population of the globe - a cry for the daily prayers and efforts of all who have any sort of appreciation of the blessings here and hereafter which you and I possess in the Lord Jesus Christ. As the other town and cities between us and Hankow will be described further on, we may continue our observations from the point of our arrival at Hankow. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.