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fore the sun reaches noon this town must pay fifty or a thousand dollars to the brigands, and if they do not do so the city will be looted and then burned to the ground; and the boys of every family taken prisoner, and all the young women carried off never to come back again.” And these things are happening all the time. Of course the people pay anything to save themselves from such a calamity. We had seen everywhere we traveled in China the ravages of this brigandage, corpses lying by the roadside; villages and towns burned out; the people coming to the mission station with most terrible wounds to be healed and dressed. We had just reached the last Province, the last city, we were going to, and in one day more we should have been safely through that long journey, when the Lord allowed us to be taken by this wild, savage, band of brigands. They sprang out upon us suddenly from an ambush by the road side as we were traveling along in sedan chairs early in the afternoon, firing their rifles, brandishing their swords, shouting, leaping like wild frenzied creatures, doing every thing to strike terror into our hearts. Of course we stepped out' of the chairs at once and went to meet them. There was no use talking or parleying. They got our ropes to tie our arms and carry us away prisoners. I said, “ There is no need to tie our arms, we have no revolvers; you need not be afraid of us.” When they found we were not armed they didn’t tie us. They took us straightway back into the great high mountains ten or twelve thousand feet high, way back into .the Brigand King dom—because they had a king, those four thousand men. They said, “We are taking you to see King of the Brigands, and he will say what is to be done.” They sent all our things into the city, and in a few nio- ments we realized we had nothing, absolutely nothing, but what we stood up in. No change of clothing, no bedding for the night, no food of any description, couldn’t even make a cup of tea. No soap, no towels, nothing except our Bibles, a few books anjd papers which we had in our chair, and a steamer rug and cushion. They carried us off ab solutely alone except for the dear Chinese evangelist who went at the risk of his own life with us. Nothing would persuade him to leave us, that dear brother. How we love him, how thankful we were for his conversion. The leader of the band walked beside my chair just op^ posite my window, armed to the teeth, a young man of about thirty, a typical brigand. And there in the chair, realizing our helplessness, remembering all we had been hearing and seeing for three and a half years, and knowing now that it had come to us— oh, I cannot tell you the won der of that experience, of the nearness of the Lord Jesus Christ Himself! They had closed in around the chairs, but He was nearer, much nearer, so near that he was con sciously there between me and that leader of the hand of brigands. And oh, the heavenly joy of that moment I never can tell; only that the sweet sense of His keeping, His presence just took possession of one’s whole being and there was no room for fear, no room for the terror they sought to inspire, no room for any thing but just joy in the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. It was so sweet and so won derful I could not help singing, sitting there in the chair, just because it was so real. And the. leader of the band heard; he looked into that little window, and shouted to the rest of the men, “ Listen! She’s singing. She is not afraid.” I looked at him through the little widow and smiled, and said, “ Oh, no, we are not afraid of you. Of
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