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Show U> T H E P A C I F IC OOO where we have building lots and a church organization. Its present terminus is Moore Haven at the south end of the Lake. Eighteen months ago Moore Haven was a jungle wilderness. Last Christmas 500 people gathered for the tree. Eight hundred get their mail at that office. Prices on farm lands and city lots are soaring. "Rev. and Mrs, George L. Day are serving this Everglade country. They have six churches and preaching stations, and are making themselves known to the incoming people. Another missionary is demanded at once. The Florida Finger points southward to America's open door in Central and South America. Our Latin-American Mission at West Tampa points the way. The gates have swung inward for ten of thousands of Spanish-speaking peoples from Cuba and other islands of the Gulf. May the gates swing outward, bearing the Gospel message to the scores of thousands of like needy peoples to the South." Moore Haven, mentioned in the foregoing, is one of the new towns in that region in the development of which James A. Moore, formerly ofi Seattle, is leading. After losing two fortunes in Seattle-one about the year 1892; the other about 1910, when the great Trusts in the East bankrupted the steel plant at Port Townsend-Mr. Moore went to Florida with the hope of regaining at the least his lost health and seems now to be regaining both health and wealth. GOING TO CHURCH IN LINTSING. Ben F. Sargent. As I sat in church yesterday morning I could but wish that my American friends could see the audience from my advantageous point of view-a seat at right angles to the body of the church. There were probably two hundred present; but, unlike the home land, more men than women. The garments worn were certainly varied. An elderly man a pew away wore a purplG sleeveless coat. The student class all wore long gowns varying in color from white to black. The women wore their accepted dress of blouse and loose fitting trousers-these also of many colors. In summer the small boys wear only the garments Mother Nature gave them. One of our missionaries having grown too stout for a pair of pajamas which were still good, asked his wife to give them t o some needy person. The wife passed them over to the mother of a deserving family with the remark that she might use them as she thought best. What was their amazement the next Sunday to see the woman herself appear in church clad in them alone, and walk up the aisle bowing and smiling to her acquaintances with the confidence born of assurance that she was for once well dressed. Far different from that was the group of twenty-five girls from the Boarding School, and the twenty boys from their school. The preacher, a visiting evangelist, was dressed in a black gown with white trousers and had a very graceful figure. When preaching, he waved a small fan with his right hand, and gestured with the left. He travels on foot from place to place, asking only his entertainment and an offering. Though unlearned in the schools, and with many crude ideas, I should say he is a man with considerable power. The Chinese delight in contrasts. He preached three sermons on the Josephs of the Bible; Joseph of the second chapter of Matthew, who was! poor; Joseph of Aramathea, who was rich; and Joseph of the Old Testament, who was first poor, then rich. The Chinese will talk about these sermons for a long time. His sermons were never less than one and a half hours long, but they listened with delight. How they do like to sing! Miss Long has a choir of six young men who help out with the music. The daily services during the week are as follows: Station prayers at eight a. m.; hospital prayers at nine; for men and women separately. Wednesday evening the church prayer-meetings are held; Friday evening, the hos-. pital employes, fifteen of them, have their prayer-meeting. Then the schools have their own daily services, and the two evangelists at the hospital preach and talk to visitors whci are waiting, and continuing as long as there is any one to talk to. Then there is the street chapel at which Wang, the blind preacher, presides, holding service for any who drop in from noon until four. Outside station work is carried on at six centers, some six and some forty miles away. These are all branches of the Lintsing church, and send delegates to the quarterly church meeting. They are assisted a little from the main church treasruy which is mainly filled from America, as the people are generally too poor to give much. Sunday School comes immediately after the morning service, and is not unlike the same work at home. The missionaries are very much in earnest and believe and practice prayer. The Big Meeting. A Mission Station consists not only of the residences of the workers, the mission schools, hospital and church; but also of many out-stations over a region from fifty to a hundred miles square; each ministered to by a local pastor, a Bible woman. It is the duty of one of the resident missionaries to circulate among these various stations, preaching and visiting and advising in all things temporal and spiritual. Twice each year each of these out-stations is represented by two delegates at the Big Meeting held for three days in the mother church. This meeting is preceded by station classes, one for men, and one for women who for a month study the "doctrine" as it is taught in the Bible and in some simple catechism. No one is received into the church either into full membership or on probation, who has not had a regular course in the station class preceding the communion which is held at the time of the annual meeting. The large gathering was held this year from November 11th to 13th, and was an inspiring gathering. Sunday was the great day of the feast, every seat in the large church being taken and extra seating for at least fifty more being brought in. The sermon was preached by the pastor of the home church, an effective address upon the healing of the impotent man at the pool of Bethesda; and a feature of the service was the rendering of two special songs, one by six boys from the Boys' School, and the other a sextette by young men. At half past two came the communion service with the reception of new members and baptism. First came the reading of the names of those wishing to become members next spring, at the big meeting to be held then. There were about twenty-four, one-third being women. They all promised to study "the doctrine" faithfully and to pray and follow the teachings of Jesus. Then came the receiving of those who had been faithful during the past six months, twelve in number, four women and eight men, all of whom were baptized. This was followed by the communion, at which sixty women and one hundred and twenty-six men partook of the elements, which were administered by the foreign pastor and myself. As I sat there, I could but think of the miracle of grace. Here were one hundred and sixty-eight communicants, repre- |