He found she still “shines with the Christian spirit of regard and care for others”: “Every time I came near this grand old lady, I stood in the presence of the true spirit of Christianity. It always worked as a reminder of a lost world.” Another woman he described as “saintly” and imbued with the “ Christian virtue of love.” Yet another “foreign lady” Lin describes as having moved him by her “humility and gentleness.” While he would be unable to accept Christian theology, encountering a Christian who shone with “Christian love’’ would stir him: “It is just that: ‘If ye remember my Commandment, ye will love one another…’ Christians breed Christians but Christian theology does not.”