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Show Mr. Chu's time since August has had to be given largely to the buying and distributing of the grain for the Refuge Schools mentioned below, but he has still made opportunity to spread the Good News by word of mouth to the patients in the wards and in the outpatient department. On Sundays he goes out into the country to preach, choosing the villages where former patients live, nourishing the seed sown in the Hospital. He has been especially interested in a man who, in a quarrel with a neighbor over grain, got his head laid open. While convalescing in the Hospital, he heard of the "Jesus Way" and went home to tell his neighbor of the Good News instead of dragging him to court in a lawsuit over the matter. Patients are fewer because of the military and economic conditions in the District. Business is almost nil in the City and guerrilla fighting goes on constantly outside the City. Burning of villages occurs frequently; banditry is rife. But the greatest catastrophe of the year, and of the last fifty years, is a flood that occurred in July, submerging a large part of the two Provinces of Hopei and Shantung, affecting some fifteen millions of people. Lintsing District west of the River was |