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received the proposition with sympathetic enthusiasm, and after a month of blessed free-will service, returned with “a thrilling and inspiring” report of their experi ment. Dr. Keller says: “We reported this work to our friends at Los Angeles, and told them, too, of the launch and the work of the cigarette party, and how it had stirred us. We also called their attention to the remark able opportunity offered by the great waterways of Hunan to reach nearly every part of the province by boat. The heads of the Bible House of Los Angeles saw the vision, they heard the cry of the twenty-two million peo-
ple of Hunan, and they accepted as a commission from God the task of visiting, so far as possible, every one of Hunan’s 4,268,000 homes, to tell the people of Jesús Christ, and to leave with them as a free gift copies of God’s Word, t>r portions of it.” Dr. Keller himself was at once engaged by the Bible House of Los Angeles to inaugurate and superintend a work of evangelization among these millions of Hunan- ese. The doctor undertook the task and after six years of service, under the auspices of the Bible House, con tinues it as a department of the Bible Institute of Los
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