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Show 8 boat not only made no headway, but seemed drifting back on the rocks, a few roused themselves, and spent three hard days in fasting and prayer. Nineveh repeated itself. After that came'the first deep, hearty, tearful confession of sin. The Kalgan women were gentle, and penitent, and compliant in other things, but none had the courage to unbind their feet. The Kalgan region is a stronghold for this vice. The Spragues were very sweet in spirit, and pliable to God's touch, and willing to endure hardness for their beloved Kalgan, and to try strange new methods. Dear, unselfish Miss Chapin longed to participate in all self-sacrifice as well, but we endeavoured to dissuade her, m all cases bud one single extremity. In one of the darkest times, God- gave Mr. Sprague this promise: '"For I know the thoughts that 1 think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil to give you an expected end." One country helper stalked thro' his addresses to prayer meetings and even thro' his prayers, on high literary stilts, so that almost no one knew what he was talking about, He went home so changed, gentler simpler, and giving all his children to God, because he didn't know how to manage them. One of the dearest things God did, was to give us a Mongol teacher to help, thus making all Mongolia more real to us henceforth. Dr. Karlen, his Swedish Missionary emplover, sent him 80 miles, through that bitter cold, on purpose for the meetings. The Mongol teacher, Keng, asked for the Holv Spirit, was convicted of sin confessed with tears, received the Spirit and went back glad and bright to his hard field. Mrs. Karlen writes he studies his Bible much since returning. One leader besought, day after day, deliverance from his "hard and obstinate temper." He was greatlv softened. Another never ceased to implore God for "a clean heart." One longed never again to hold grudges. One confessed sins against the Pastor, 8000 miles away and wrote to him confessing them. ' Seven dear little boys got a good impetus in the prayer life. At the close of the Kalgan meetings, six days of services were held at she Swedish Mission twenty miles distant. Kalgan had prayed for them and they themselves. They were wonderfully prepared.' Wistful and hungry, like people who had been at the table waiting two hours for |