ABSTRACT
The author exlpains how the poor live throughout China would be too large a task for a single chapter. The winter has been a very severe one in North China. Very many of the beggars and poor people live in mat shed along the south side of the city wall, without fire, and with but little food and scant clothing. The sight of this poverty and the wailing of these beggars are very hard on the nerves, and often bring tears to one's eyes. One of author's native preachers saw a poor woman run to the paupers' kitchen, where the government provides a bowl of millet, but finding herself too late, she sank, fainting from weakness, on the street. The contractor who built my house hired his coolie labourers for five cents a day and their board, which will indicate that, they would have to contribute something to the daily income.
