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Show A NATION RIPENING TO HARVEST 25 Tie showed a large knowledge of truth and was received on probation at once. Since then he has been exerting a positive influence in his school for the church and its teachings. Mr. Cli'i, an evangelist of PAOTINGFU, was on his way home by an unfamiliar road, and after night fall lost the road. A man with a cart met aud hailed him, recognized him as the man be had heard "preaching the Jesus way," and invited him to his village for the night, saying: "I want to know more about what you teach." In TAIKUHSIEN, while visiting in the city, the ladies met a lady of the official class. Not long after, she came to call and told her story. Many years ago when she was a little girl, she was a constant visitor in the home of Mrs. Timothy Richard. There she learned not to fear foreiguers, and to know something of the message they brought. Iu 1900, her husband was official in a city near the southern border of Shansi. At his wife's instance, he protected escaping missionaries, sending several parties across the Yellow River on their way to safety. In TECHOW, the leading general in •command of the military makes a present to the hospital. He was much interested in Christianity, saying that he had never-forgotten the kindnesses shown him when as a boy forty years ago, he attended a little school in Tientsin fostered by Dr. Stanley. "This bread cast upon the waters returned with fresh butter added! " In one of the outstations of the Fenchow field, the magistrate said that he attributed the awakening of his field to the post-office and the Christian colporteurs. So it is that our query is answered. Present day woikers are building upon foundations laid years ago, some of them in blood. And the field is ripening rapidly. WW AT ™ZT1Z7. Hospitals, street-chapels, tract distributions, book-sellers, righteous lives of individual Christians, all have watered the fields as well as sown them. The amazing way iu which Fuhkien responded to the evangelistic campaign this fall warns all the Christian forces of China to be ready. A study of the statistics shows that 104,000 have been baptized in the last nine years, as compared with 131,000 iu the preceding ninety-one, aud that in 1913 alone, 28,000 were received into church membership as compared with the eighty years it took to gather the first 28,000. What geometrical ratios God has for the future, He alone knows. |