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Show A NATION RIPENING TO HARVEST 2J deploring the wasted days, he pleads with all men to let God bless them. Everywhere he goes, there are those who know him, and his completely changed life is a convincing testimony of the power of the Gospel. In village after village, former mates in sin come out of dark corners disbelieving reports of his wonderful new life, but when they hear his earnest appeal and see his happy face, then they know. There is the deacon whose business has been ruined by two years of flood, and who now pushes a wdieel-barrow from door to door, selling cloth. But he puts the The City Gate Taikuhsien r\ i 1 c n ., Gospel before all other interests, never misses a church service, and bears more than any other person the burdens of his church, contributing to it each year more profit than he can make iu his best six weeks. There is the young man near Tingchou in the PAOTINGFU field, who, when he had believed, first won his own brother. Then the two of them set to work, in face of threats of disinheritance, scorn aud ridicule, to win their own family, and by their patience aud their sincerity in improved character have now made practically all the family willing to listen. From LINTSING comes the story of the ignorant man who went to glean wheat at some distance from his home, heard about the "Jesus Church," and told his home village about it, so that they sent to invite the missionary to come and teach them. There is the classical scholar of the TAIKUHSIEN country field who gave much valuable furniture to the local church, aud leased for a song a court of buildings for a school. FENCHOW has been encouraged by the addition of men like Mr. Li who paid the expenses of a three-days evangelistic campaign in his town, and Mr. T'sao who has placed himself aud his property at the disposal of the church. Equally encouraging is the change in the gatekeeper's wife, from one whose life consisted in the three " g ' s " of China- gadding, gambling and gossip, into an earnest Christian little body who spends her rare spare moments traveling with |
