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Show p? Trumpet Call lumber •pwoy <3ur next call is from x h e ^ a s t Street £aot|ngfu. l e v e r in a ll acquaintance with Paotingfu cend i t i o n s - h a s our c i t y work seemed so promising.Dr.D,Brewer Lddy:"THh \;<ORK IS JUS: 3HLAKIHG IITO HARVLST," V<hen General Chang spoke Inn the chapel with only a half day's n o t i c e , t h e room was f i l l e d with men only.His appeals were- received s e r i o u s l y and his t r i b u t e s to our Lord and fcagiour with applause.Ho man present at t h a t meeting can e n t i r e l y forget him. Two weeks ago Colonel Chang and General &u - . spoke for t h r e ^ successive evenings,and were l i s t e n e d to by large audiences.Their messages were p r a c t i c a l and warmed with earnest Gospel appeal.For any special meeting we can e a s i l y f i l l the house and always when the school children have a part the parents come out and crowd the house and courts outside. Every Wednesday we have a special meeting for personal conference.On the l a s t evening of this kind I spoke to about ten men gathered around a cable and as.they sipped t h e i r xea I urged them to accept Christ as t h e i r Saviour'.They a l l said:"fie do be- - lieve in bim,f and they were since rt so far as xhey understood. The men are very open hearted and anr problem is how to i n s t r u ct these busy men of a f f a i r s wh^se time is so limited. l o hall in xhe cixy is large enough, to hole a l l who d e s i r e to a t - tend xhe meetings when we have special speakers,Admission must be 'oy t i c k e t . An re is an eagerness to hi ar and an evident undefined longing for that peace which only xh<: Saviour can give.This eager r e s t l e s s n e s s and readiness to attend a l l kinds of r e l i g i o u s services c o n s t i t u t e OUE Cht|£.L£&GEhl] ow i s the time to give Paotingfu the Gospelllow is the time to reach a helping hand to these lost people. |hen Jesus saw the c i t y of Jerusalem and wept ovei i t, "che fact thax xhey "would not" caused his heartbreak.His ueloved Jerusalem and nation rejected, him and i t was this that made him ££he Man of Sorrow!1 .Paotirg fu is ace ess ible;.V,a want to give chbn: the Gospel with g r e a t e r efficiency of effort than ever before. V.e want to unify and enlarge our c i t y work and %L V,AHT TO DO IT olCW. Third Trumpet Gall, Let the women l i f t up their"«roice like a trudpet ".These women who have spent most of tjaeir livs; s in a l i t t l e court surrounded by high walls lEven xhe s t r e e t is shut out from! them I They cannot read,They have always lived in the densest i n t e l l e c t u a l , a n d s p i r i t u a l darkness. On^ce in a long time a missionary wi)2ild pass t h a t way. The children would run in and say,"A foreign devil |