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Show A Letter about the Kalgan Meetings, 7 h -.. • a •! t bVh; )..-. PLEASE DO NOT PUBLISH. m" -fO-gP, XO bl u • ' />•<•: d:a,H).x, aj/aaap • . hi • • . ' Kalgan, February 1908. My Dear Friends: Last September I wrote asking your prayers for this place. In November 1907, on the 14th, the meetings began, and lasted six weeks. A Swedish Missionary from 20 miles away, at Hsuan Hua Fu came, and sent four of his flock. At first the church was bitterly hard and cold, but the tide gradually turned. At a meeting Mr. Sprague led, the Spirit began to pray through them, and there were instead of the earlier long, stiff, formal petitions, twelve short earnest prayers in fourteen minutes ! In the six weeks ten different Chinese leaders were greatly blessed. One had been dead to the church for seven years. A grave illness had brought him to himself and he had broken off opium before coming. He gave up tobacco at Kalgan, became earnest in Bible study and spiritually quickened, and is now faithfully at work again. Some of the hard, bitter men wrere so changed before our eyes we hardly knew them. The one it had seemed most impossible to help, as he was kept from many meetings by sickness, was first to confess, and sought the opportunity himself when no one was expecting it. One leader resisted all through the six weeks. Later on, one Sunday, little groups met in different places to pray for him, while one of the number had a frank talk, and let Scripture do its own reproving. He surrendered, made his late amends to the Pastor in public, and seemed gentler afterward. |