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she was now a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ. For a time, as so often happens with Jewish converts, she failed to make known to her Jewish friends the step she had taken, fearing their persecu tion, but now after the lapse of five years we learn that she is testifying to faith in the One she had so long denied. “ In Perils Often” In a recent letter, Dr. Keller, speak ing of the unsettled conditions in China, and especially in Hunan and neighbor ing proyinces, says: -yJ^ “ The leader of THE WORK IN our party No. 4 got HUNAN, CHINA word from his home Dr. Frank A. Kellerthat the home had _ b e e n looted by Northern soldiers, his mother had taken refuge in one place, his wife and child in the Wesleyan Mission, and his father could not be found. Everything in their house was either stolen or destroyed, so he felt that he must take a trip home to see what he could do for them. Turn ing over the work to his assistant leader he started for his home at Pao- king. On the way he met some North ern soldiers who, at the point of the bayonet demanded whatever of value he might have on his person. They took his watch, the small amount of money he had for traveling expenses and his umbrella. Just as I was starting this letter a merchant came in and in the course of conversation told me that right here on the streets of Changsha his pockets were searched this morning and he was relieved of about three dol lars, this being all the money he had with him. “ On Tuesday night of this week the British flag was torn down from the front entrance of our friend Mr. Yer- yard’s house. The British Consul is very angry about' this and I hope that his dealing with the matter may bring about better conditions here. Mrs.
no man is sufficient for these things of himself, but “ our sufficiency is of God” who is made unto us wisdom and right eousness and sanctification and redemp tion. The following incident illustrates how what seems impossible to men is possible with God: Five years ago one of our Jewish Bible Women, in the course of her visitation work among the Jews, called at a certain home in the city to witness to the fact that she had found in Jesus Christ her Mes siah, and to reason with them from their own Scriptures concerning Him. As soon as they learned that their caller was a converted Jewess, and what they considered much worse, a Jewish missionary, they became greatly enraged and abused her roundly for becoming, what they termed, a traitor to her own people. Two men present became so angry that they finally rushed upon the caller, picked her up bodily and threw her out of the house, tearing her cloth ing and doing her personal injury. Humanly speaking, it would seem the height of folly to expect any good to come of such an interview and worse than useless to pay a second visit there, but God sees not as man sees, and “ moves in mysterious ways His won ders to perform.” Knowing this, one is n,ot so surprised to learn that the worker felt prompted of the Lord to go back to that home where she had been so badly treated, and instead of having the door slammed in her face as one might expect, she was kindly received and even invited into the house, though the lady warned her not to mention anything about Christ or Christianity. Without promising to heed this warn ing, the worker improved the oppor tunity to cultivate the acquaintance of the lady and so wisely sow a little more seed in what afterwards proved to be fertile soil. Subsequent visits gave opportunity for watering the seed sown and one day this woman who at first had been so bitter, acknowledged that
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