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Show 22 NORTH CHINA MISSION The House of Feng Pao Fu " Fenchow numbering eighty or ninety in all, and may all rightly be called recent converts. What of that group of women and children who after a year's work among them brought their birth-day presents to Jesus at the Christmas celebration in PAOTINGFU? Or of that village that learned in the flood of last year to know that there is a Heavenly Father who cares, so that from two families the number of inquirers increased to forty persons? In the PEKING Central church, we find a membership of two hundred contributing the wdiole support of their pastor and assistant pastor. In the mountains northwest of FENCHOW, there is a congregation of mountaineers, " t h e church in the house of" Feng Pao Fu, where it Is no longer possible to meet in the house, so that the courtyard must be utilized, even though on the raw December day the ice formed over the baptismal bowl. On the plain, thrice almost ruined by destructive floods, two churches are struggling to build their own houses of worship. In the flourishing three-year-old church of the East Suburb of PEKING, outside the Morning Sun gate, ardent church members generously surrender their seats to guests when there is standing room only at the Sunday evening lectures. And so the roll could be called all through the field. Still more embarrassing are the limitations placed upon the biographies of men and women who have heard the good news SAMPTTTVrr a n d a C t e d UP011 it:- Only one who has lived in THE FRUIT ^-n n i a c a n understand the significance of the deed of the ex-Mohammedan inn-keeper, of the TUNGCHOW field, who brought back fourteen dollars and thirty cents which he had saved from a repair job which he supervised! There is that man from PEKING wdio heard Miss Russell tell the story to his wife, while he complacently smoked his opium. A member of an influential family, widely known as a powerful knave, in prison and deprived of opium, he believed the good news. Now, deeply |