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Show Lintsing GENERAL REPORT 69 There is also ever the perennial need for more money for all lines of work. The American Board sent us last year $ 1426. With this amount we paid the salaries of fourteen preachers and teachers, nine chapel keepers and gate-men, maintained services in twenty places, repaired buildings, ran a Boys' School with an average attendance of thirty pupils, fed mules, paid carters, taught station classes, preached the gospel to thousands of people, helped the poor - and added unto the church some fifty men and women who "are being saved". Who will say that this work does not pay ? Would you not like to send us thirty dollars and thus feel that you were helping at least one person from this great laud of Sinim to see the great light ? Friends, pray for us.' Pray that we may know how to make this work known to those at the home base that they will be interested in it and desire to have a part. Pray for the Chinese church that it may daily grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And pray, too, for the Chinese Christian leaders that they may have ability to lead their own people speedily on to self-support, self - propagation, and evangelistic power. Compiled from the report by Mr. Eastman. |