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Show Mats l a g , Shantung, China, June 5th 1930 Bear friends whom I nave not seen or w r i t t e n to fox many years: tfeeause tne American f r i e n d s nere know sometning o now you are mow s i t u a t e d I thank uoa for nis ear® over you aad for g r a n t i n g you much grace ana peace, and a l s o for causing you aot to forget your former place.of work, tae Liataug enuren, anu a i r your Cainese feiiow workers and b r o t h e r s . You are pronaorf often wonderi n g aoout tae condition of the Lint sing enuren during tnese recent years* and so I am writing to t e l l you something about i t , £ ''Dtrr-ing recent years ' t h e r e has sprung up in Unina from among the student exass an a n t i - i e i i g i o u s movement, xecturiag, using trie news-papers, and w r i t i n g oooks, Tnis you douotiess know. Indeed one or two 01 our own e».n.u„r_e,a- w..o_r_k_e,r-s a f t e i o-e.in.g0 discharg_„e.d-;_h„a.v_| _f„o_ll_o_w.,e_d tne line of least resistance and said Cnristianity is superstition ana witnout foundation. Tnis nas truly given tne opponents of U&ristianity good material. After all tnese men never deeply tasted the flavor of the Lord's way or deeply entered it. Tne money spent uy Western friends t i iC ChUrCu . on such men'i= education raised up enemies for For aoout twenty years after 1900 man wore a raise face to enter it, ana ueeau muca. effort and time. Tne airficuities yourselves tasted, Therefore Dotn Cn±ij3_ workers nave oeen determinea not to rece until ne snows evidenoe of repentance an tnese few years the numoer received has were only eleven men ana five women oapt tneir qualifications at trie time of join higher than witn tnose wno entered forme y who entered tne cnurcn se of tnis we nave spent from tnis source you nave se and Western evangelistic ive anyone into tne cnurcn d a new life. Therefore oeen small. Last year tnere izea during the year, out ing trie cnurcn were mucn riy. I am sending you a map of our c in aetai± of wnere our ieid., s~ow t„n.a.-t„ you can evangelists are now iocatea. y i n g is i at Sum Ku in t ne Jfu Fang' r - Ti Cniu Xing field. ram un know a nuang i | ig Id i i 7e i s t Q Msing Pins ling i of Tami ana Sung (Jn'ang Jung at *u nsien n T i e n ' r f i e l d , and Me Cn'i nsing ruan nas tne ne Cnao f i e l d , ana fuan Tien ting is at i u Msien. G&ang Peng Ling nas tne T'ang I f i e l d , with iuo Ki Ma Snuang sun. l a o , "ang unia men ne, ^na i'Gn Cnai. ksu Shou Gn'eng and uia Pao hsin nave the Cn'ing P ' i n g , Po P ' i n g , and Gn'in P8ing ana f liuan IU Tung i s at Lintsing, ana Liu Cn'eng Msiang looks after accounts of the Evangelistic Department. an ng i e l a . the On account of tne s i t u a t i o n in recent years we have during the a i l tne church r o i l s . Accordingly tne exact numoer i&ch branch cnurcn i s shown oeiow. past year remade of memoers in ea< Cnurcn 1 Ti Cniu l i ng Yu rang Snao *u n s i n Tien Iu u s i en wang T'sun Pai iuen [en 23 53 66 70 A 6 36 36. "omen 5 9 5 * ID 1 12 Churcn Men Me unao Gh'ingjPo, u n ' i h Ping T'ang 1 Uii'iu M3ien L i n t s i ng T o t a l s 37 46 33 18 106 550 women 2 12 4 A 65 154 704 |