Excerpt from A Narrative of the Conversion of a Chinese Physician: Compiled From Journals and Letters of Missionaries of the Church Missionary Society at Ningpo, and One of Their Catechists MY dear old friend, whose labour of love it has been to weave out of several scattered documents the following simple narrative, requests me to preface it with a few words of recommendation. I confess that I hardly understand the motive of his request and yet, both on oficial and personal grounds, I feel my self obliged unhesitatingly to comply with it. 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.