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Show ». 17.) One. church member had * t into a law suit and felt very ugly, thought the other man ought to be excommunicated arid beaten 3 blow- ! . One haO ignored his aunt and not bumped his head to her at hew Years for years, would go straight home and do i t. One,Mr. Hsiao, thanked us that our prayan had brought his new bride. One helper, air. Chang Oh'e'ng Haling) had tempted others to cheat also had bullied other folks about their animals and his and had offended his mother. One P'ang Ohoang helperUir. Li Oh'un Hwa) had been unwilling to go to an enemy's house when opportunity came that he might have done them good. One helper had looked down on fasting and once when Mr. Smith had aooointed a day to fast and oray for rain he refused to observe snd f e l t it had been a great sin. flag Wan Ch'eng confessed that for a week there had been two very "pingan" (peaceful) meetings daily for him and one i r r i t a t i n g one(tfche noon meeting) when people confessed. He said he had been very full of c r i t i c i sm of me. He confessed to me privately what his criticism^ were! One was that I fasten and the other aras that. I .orayed God to stop, people going straight to the deiil by pajn or djasjer or sickness or trouble, anything to. stop then! _He thought I should ask only blessings for"" folks! Chou Ju Hsiang, younger brother of the hospital assistant, a frail looking boy with big melancholy eyes, is here ..reaking off oniua by prayer His brother took 4 cash worth a day, but he takes only 140 cash worth. Was in the chnrch from the time he was lh, he is now 24a Got crld and drifted away from God and I rought UP at last in this plight. Feels as if there was no sin he had not committed. So glad God set us to save him and bring him back and help him up on his feet again. Mr.Chang Ch'eng Hsiang again I poke. His tongue often offended and for many months he had stopped giving his 500 cash a month to God. An ex-preacher, Mr.Tuan, did not want to preach because he had n't power enough to help his own family, flij home folks grtl worse not better. I.have not set a good eiampie. One old member even has drifted away." |
