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Show 24 NORTH CHINA MISSION Christian through Pilgrim's Progress. Iu social contrast, but iu essential similarity is the woman, reached through the Hall of Illustrious Learning in PEKING, whose husband is entirely given over to dissipation, and yet who continues to study in her effort to fit herself for some future, unseen need, gaining strength from her growing thought of God as the one to Leading Men of Fenchow In Gentry Bible Class. whom she looks for protection. Mr. Hsiao of TUNGCHOW, for thirteen years an official for the Manchus of the city, takes a turn at preaching or lecturing, loans his fine silks for Sunday-school dramatics, and loyally supports the church prayer-meeting. Mr. Chang, partner in a big restaurant on the South street, is ready to do anything that is necessary in the way of moving chairs or tables for Bible classes, or of entertaining new-comers who want to chat about the gospel. These are samples of the fruit which could be many times reduplicated in any one of the stations had the reports included them. In more than one report there is the sense that seed sown faithfully in the past is now ripening to harvest, and that everywhere there is increasing openness to the THE SEED Gospel message. In one village of the PANG-OF ITSELF KIACHWANG station temples were torn down and built up into 4-100111 buildings for schools for both boys and girls, under the control of the Christian church, and the official in charge has given liberally for two years. In this station there have been more baptisms the past year than in any p'receding year. And from this station is reported the instance of a man who has been a government school teacher for two years. He was discovered during the campaign for the leading classes spoken of earlier. He informed the evangelists that for two years he hail been awaiting an opportunity to join the church. In the meantime he had been carrying a pocket New Testament, from which he read daily. |