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OUR BIBLE INSTITUTE IN H U N AN PROVINCE, CH INA UR, FRANK A . KELLER, Superintendent
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GOD ANSWERS PRAYER HE Chinese New Year season is a great time for exchanging calls, not merely on New Year’s Day as formerly in the States, but continuing for about two weeks. This year the Chinese New Year came on our January 28. Every year I try to give the most of two days to calling on the various Chinese pastors, evangelists and leading church workers in Changsha. This year I put Mr. Huang’s name on my list, and had a most interesting and de lightful call at his home. Although the Huang’s are very poor, everything about their small apartment is scrupulously neat and clean, and their faces just shine with the joy of those who really know their Lord. It can be truly said of them, “ They looked unto Him and were radiant.” Ps. 34:5, A. R. V,. Bartimaeus Huang, as he calls him self, gave me an interesting account of his life and of his conversion. He said that he was so thankful to God for his blindness, for had he not become blind he fears that he would never have been willing to listen to the Gospel. We had a blessed season of prayer together, both Mr. and Mrs. Huang leading in prayers that just stirred one to the very depths. After leaving them, as I trudged on through the rain and mud of that stormy day, there kept rising before me the bright and smiling, but oh so wistful, face of Mr. Huang’s daughter, Bao-En, a girl of thirteen years. The two Chinese char acters pronunced Bao-En form her given name arid mean “ Precious Grace.” Her name in Chinese, Huang Bao-En (for the given name always comes last in China and the family name first), if we translate the given name, will read
Huang Precious-Grace. Now let us put the given name wriere we in the home lands are accustomed to see it, in front of the family name, and then omitting the first half we will have simply the well known name Grace Huang. - On reaching home I told Mrs. Kel ler about my call and about Grace Huang and said: “ That is an excep tionally firie girl? a most sincere Chris tian and remarkably bright; she should certainly be in school. I wish you would consult with Mrs. Wohlleber about her as soon as possible, find out Why she is not in school, and see if arrange ments can be made for 'putting her in school.” On making inquiries we learned that a year ago Grace had begged her mother to go to Mrs. Wohl leber and ask her if she could not ar range in some way for her to attend school. Mrs. Huang replied: “ I can not speak to Mrs. Wohlleber about it, but you can tell God about 4t. God loves you and He has all power, so if you pray to Him, if it is best for you to go to school He will surely open the way.” So for one solid year Grace Huang had been praying that God would make it possible for her to go to school. In the meantime she most faithfully toiled at her needle work day by day, to do her part toward providing food for the fam ily. Her Prayer Answered It was on January 30th that I called on the Huangs. Four days later, on February 4th, I received the following letter from Los Angeles: “ Dear Dr. Keller:— The Superintendent of our Young People’s Division has asked me to send you J20.80, and I am very glad to enclose draft for this amount. The money is from the Young People’s Di-
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