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eign religion, but I hate become a be liever in Jesus Christ as my Saviour.” He continued his study of the Word and began a life of constant prayer, even praying at the theater before beginning the play. Soon he realized that he must give up the theater, and being originally a shoemaker, he returned to Changsha and opened a shoe-shop right near the Liebenzeller Mission. He became a reg ular attendant at the services and in due time applied fof baptism and was received into the church. He continued to make shoes as a means of earning his living, but made prayer and personal work to win men to Christ the great business of his life. Mr. Tsao, for that is his name, became much interested in our Biola Evangelistic Bands and felt that God was calling him to devote all his time to the preaching of the Gospel, a work for which he was peculiarly well fitted, so he asked his pastor, the Rev. Chr. Wohlleber, to make application for him. Mr. Wohlleber presented Mr. Tsao’s application with his own hearty recommendation, and Mr. Tsao was re ceived into one of the bands, where for some years he was one of our most earnest and successful workers. Later the Liebenzeller Mission asked to have him to take charge of one of their out- stations and there he did a blessed work until God called him Home to Himself. There was another very clever and popular actor named Huang. This Mr. Huang became totally blind and, thus being compelled to give up his profes- ,sion, like many other blind men in China, he became a fortune teller. As a fortune teller he gained a wide repu tation and made a good living. In the old days he and Mr. Tsao were close friends, and now Mr. Tsao constantly prayed for him and earnestly sought to lead him to Christ. God blessed his efforts and he had the joy of leading Mr. Huang and his entire family to a beautiful faith in Christ for salvation, YOU— 20,000 NEW Subscribers
school and .hospital work of the United Evangelical Mission. The Gospel was preached and copies of the printed Word of God were left in practically every home. Some of these books were read and studied,, others were either laid aside on shelves or used for a variety of purposes. This seems bound to be the case; it is the old, old story of the “ Seed” . One woman, who supported herself and family by doing embroidery, used a copy of the Gospel of Matthew as a kind of portfolio for her silk threads, putting the various colors and sizes between the different pages of the little book, a fine stroke of “ Efficiency” in her daily work. At that time a Changsha theatrical company was play ing in Liling, and one day as the woman sat just outside her front door at work an actor came along and noticed the book in her lap. (I nearly wrote “ hap pened to notice” ; pleas© read on and then decide whether it “ happened” , or whether the Holy Spirit really led.) He asked her to give him the book. His heart was hungry; he was yearning for soriiething, he knew not what. The woman replied that she needed the book for her threads. He then said, “Well, I will buy the book from you aud pay you for it, then you can get another book for your threads; how much will «rou sell it to me for?” The woman named a price which the actor gladly paid and, taking the book, went straight to his lodgings and began to read. From the very first reading he was convicted of sin and began to see the glorious way of salvation from sin and its in evitable consequences which a loving God had provided. His soul was filled with wonder and when he went to the theater he told his fellow actors what he had read. Day after day this con tinued until they sneeringly asked him: “ Have you become a preacher of the foreign religion?” “ No,” he replied, “ I have not become a preacher of a for- W e are Counting on
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