OCR Text |
Show Lin Ch'in., via Shanghai d. fa* fag Tao, China, Nov .27,1905. ayers We have had great ?oy the Uat 1mm **«« w* *• , on our behalf On t»a 5 a t » \ thank Y ° U f o r y o u r " ucua-ii. JII Due .<5lSt. won dPTpH if ry A i - m~ nuaueiyu I I bOQ WOUld l i v e na a A M A i • *en years since dear „iarie went hone. The h e ^ e l O n .8 ° ° * t h I n 2 s ' ^ e t. meeting and each confessed his sin. ' t 0 t h e n° °n Dear old 1X191 FENG 10 knew he was both croud and lazy. ',/ould rather l i e and sleep than preach. Felt that his heart was with his old lonan church And tnat this was not his real work. If the Pastor pressed his here,he did things, if the castor stopped pressing, he stopped doin*. Had had a temper from childhood etc.Had not been faithful. Chan? Wan Ch'un said after he Promised me last year to set up early and read his Btblf, he did for a while and felt a new power in his preaching. Then on soae ourney he dropped it and had grown cold and life l e s s . F#it he had been far from 3oa. Wen Chih Hsing had learned in P'ang Chuang that be aught to have family prayers and did. but he went away and his wife gave it all up. Khaa he came back and found it out he reproached her and they had a quarrel and he got mad ana struck her! Wanted to : e prayed for Wang 3hu Tien, our evangelist, confessed to being vexed at home and sulked for days making everybody unhappy because he would not t e l l them what the matter was. Liu ?u Lu had been cold and far away from tea and had meditated leavin? the church work. Bit was out in a big storm and endured severe exposure which he thought light cost his iife but all the time fed seemed to be cnastenmg him and taring to him," Are you tola? to serve le or leave Me'?" P i"Make up your mind." Chou • u Chai used to b« Dispensary assistant and such a p i l l a r in the church. He has a fine face,and a fine voice and ?reat executive a b i l i t y His orother has an opium shop and all three brothers smoke. It has seemed that tne former leader was going straight to the devil. His mother had bagfad our prayers for her sinful, excommunicated son. Her prayers and streaming eyes were used of (fed to lead me to send for him on* the 23d. He came to the noon meeting andlistened attentively to evangelist Wang's inspired talk on the leper whom Christ healed. Later I called him to my room, told him how we all had been praying for him. And that ;Jod yearned over him. I asked him after the talk if he wouldn't come back to his loving*, long la? father"? "When"? "Now Yes is the accepted time". He said."ToDay" and began to weep. |