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We accepted the invitation for two days. After a reception in the courtyard the bell rang and all the .students gathered in the main hall. The Dean in introducing us said: “ You students are intent on securing learn ing and culture, and are devoting all your strength and energy to attain to these things, but I want to tell you that learn ing and culture without virtue are worth less, and THE FOUNTAIN-OF ALL VIR TUE IS JESUS CHRIST, therefore I have invited these teachers to come and speak to you about Christ, and 1 exhort you to throw off all listlessness and listen with all earnestness and attention to this teach ing which surpasses all other learning. On the second day the Dean opened the meetings with equally urgent words. Later he asked us to tell to the students the story of your aged mother coming to China that you might be able to go on with this work. We did as he requested and the students seemed to be deeply moved.’ * Mr. Cheng asks earnest prayer for Mr. Peng whose conversion and earnest testi mony God has so graciously used to kin dle this deep spirit of enquiry and faith in the hearts of the student classes of that part of Hunan. Let us pray most earnest ly that many of these teachers and students may truly give their hearts to Christ, and that Mr. Peng’ s influence may be a very wide one. Most truly yours in Christ; FRANK A. KELLER. Changsha, Hunan, June 26, 1920.
Cheng ,and said that he had escaped with only the clothing he wore and his Testa ment, which he seemed to prize most highly.) Mr. Cheng continues: “ Our hearts were made glad by the conversion of our landlord, and also by the conversion of a woman who lives just opposite and who had been for many years a devoted Budd hist. This woman soon led another wo man, also a Buddhist, to faith in Christ. Another prominent citizen by the name of Ou-Yang, fifty-eight years old, gave his heart to Christ and also led his wife to faith in Christ, then they went together to Buddhist gatherings and boldly preach ed the Gospel. At one of these gather ings four other Buddhists were brought to a decision. A committee made up of teachers and students from one of the government schools waited on us and asked us to come to' their school and speak for an hour daily, ."they said that they were hungry and thirsty to hear. The head of this school is a warm friend of Mr. Peng, men tioned above, and it was Mr. Peng’ s ear nest testimony that led to this invitation. From another school came a written in vitation to come and live at the school for a week and use all the school hours for a thorough presentation of the Gospel. When we first visited this school some time before the students ' scorned our books; now the Dean writes that they are preparing a reception for us and will be glad to give us all the time for a week.
T h e Biola Evangelistic Bands. Under competent leaders (M r. C heng being the leader of Biola Band N o . 1 ), go out on these boats, devoting the morning hours to Bible study, and the afternoons to colportage -work in the homes o f the people.
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