# Letter This letter was excerpted in the December 1898 edition of the CMS Intelligencer, Volume 23 p. 927. >Miss M. E. Barber wrote from Kuliang on September 7th:-- >The work done amongst the Chinese this year up on these hills has been most encouraging. Our cook started a service for servants only, and on the two occasions I was present to play the hymns at that service, I was struck by the earnestness and reality of the men who, one after the other, stood up to testify for Jesus or to speak on some text. Then on Sundays our teachers and servants went out two and two preaching in the villages. The people were more accessible than in former years, and our cook and teacher returned each Sunday rejoicing because of the opportunity they had had in preaching in the villages. Through what I heard from them, and also through talks with the Natives up here, I gathered that the people would welcome a catechist or evangelist to work among them, and I proposed that we missionaries should support such a man and have him as our representative. The proposal was warmly received, and we are to have "our own missionary" at Kuliang. We are praising God for this, and looking for the harvest next year; the seed has been sown a long while among these rough hill-men and women, and many of us feel that the evangelist will reap where others have sown. God grant it!