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Biola Band No, 10
No. 8 , writes:-4M‘We have worked o u t' from five main centers and by God’s blessing there is now a small bu t earn est and self-supporting church in each of the five centers, all h itherto wholly unevangelized.” Some of these or ganizations are called “O ut-stations," others “P rayer and Bible Study H alls,” but by whatever name they are known, are in fact what th e New Testament calls “ churches,” wholly self-support ing and organized for th e instruction and building up of our young con verts, and for th e systematic following up of the w idespread work done by the band. These in fan t churches are or ganized in fullest co-operation w ith the mission concerned, which mission at once assumes p asto ral care of them. During th e past year the workers of Band No. 8 visited 21,392 homes, 209 individuals definitely received Christ as th e ir personal Savior, and 57 families burned or destroyed all th eir idols, and have set up Christian homes. When we remember th a t th is work was done in previously unevangelized te rrito ry the results seem wonderful, but when we learn of the special- difficulties under which it was carried on th e results are more th an wonderful, they are glorious, and show fo rth th e m ighty power Of our God to Whom be all the praise. Let us perm it Mr. Hwaneg to tell his own sto ry :— T raveling Theatres
glad h earts and songs of se to God 'w e announce organization and sending of th is new hand of evan
gelists. Thé leader is Mr. Hsiao Yu Cheng, or, w ritten in our western style, Mr. Y. C. Hsiao, a nephew of our Mr. M. K. Hsiao so well known to all who are in terested in, this work. Mr. Y. C. Hsiao is well equipped both by n atu re and by train in g for th is im po rtan t position. He is a gradu ate of th e Hunan Bible In stitu te where he did splendid work during his course of study, and has had practical experience in all th e methods of the band work, having been th e successful leader of Band No. 9. Band No. 10 is made up of a fine lot of young men, some of them graduates of th e Bible In stitu te, others who are veterans in band work, and still others who have been sent to us by the mis sion in whose field Band No. 10 will work, th e plan being to have these men study our methods of work and a fte r some months of practical expe rience use them as the uncleus of a new band to be organized and directed by th is mission in “its own field. This is one of th e ideal resu lts of our work. We send a band of train ed and expe rienced workers into th e field of some mission, th a t mission sends some of its local w orkers to us for train ing and experience, then the mission organizes bands made up of Christians from its own field and sends them out to work in th a t field until every home in the entire field has been thoroughly evangelized. Glimpses of th e Work T h at you may more fully share in our joy a t the going forth of Band No. 10, enter w ith us into the spirit of th e ir work, and join w ith us in p er sistent and prevailing prayer for God’s daily blessing upon them during the coming year, let me give you a brief account of the past y ear’s work of one of th e other bands, and some extracts from th e recent letters w ritten by the leader. Mr. Hwang, th e leader of Band
Mr. Hwang w rite s:— “We encount ered many difficulties, th e first one was th a t of the language: th e dialect of the people was so peculiar th a t on first entering each new district it was very difficult to make them understand any thing we said. The second difficulty was th e traveling th eatres; everywhere we went they followed us, it seemed as though th e devil him self had enlisted them to hinder our work.” These trav eling th eatres visit country places per iodically a t rath e r long intervals making a stay of a few days or weeks according to th e size of th e place and th e density of th e population in the neighboring country. Their coming is a signal for a general holiday, and crowds come in A RADIATING AND RALLYING CENTER QF
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