582 THE , KING'S illustration o f the name. She is the daughter o f Mr. Hwang Chioh-Wan, the leader o f our Party No. 2. In a later let ter I want to tell you the wonderful «tory
BUSINESS recent visit to the city with her father she attended our morning worship. After reading the Scripture lesson, in which she took her turn with all the others, I asked some rather stiff questions, expecting her father or some o f the others to reply, when to my amazement little Ching-En replied promptly and correctly. After the service I asked Ching-En some questions about her home and school life and her father suggested that she recite some o f her lessons for me. First she took the Gospel according to Matthew and went right through it without a moment o f hesi tation, giving a fine outline o f each o f the twenty-eight chapters. Then she began at Genesis and named every book in the Old and New Testaments in proper order and gave the number o f chapters in each book. She then began once more at the first chap ter o f Matthew, verse one, and recited the entire chapter without a break. She was going right on for five chapters, but when she reached the middle o f the second chap ter I thanked her heartily and excused her from the balance. Seven years old! Can you beat it in America? Five years ago Mr. Hwang was a heathen. He is one o f the fruits o f God’s blessing on the Hunan Colportage Work.
o f his conversion, and o f his life and ser vice since. Ching-En is seven years old and on a
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