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Our Bible Institute in Hunan Province, China Dr. Frank A. Keller Superintendent
Summer Vacation Evangelism By E. Elizabeth Keller
is in charge of Tong Shan came in to see us and asked that the same women might come there during the summer holidays, for said he: “The work of the women is just as good as the work of the men, and in some cases they can do more, for while they are talking to the women the men come and listen too, while if a man is visiting a home, in some places the women will leave the room.” S From Peh Kia Shan the request also came that the band of women who had worked during the winter should be sent again for the summer holidays, only they asked that a few more students should be sent as the field was too large, to .be adequately worked by so small a number. When Miss Griwing came back from this place she told us that the mud on the shoes of the women students made a great im pression on the people in that district. You see, it is like this: at Chinese New Year time (February), there is a great deal of rain, and the streets, and particularly the country roads, are in a very bad condition. No one likes to go out, and unless there is something very urgent the women do not go out, but these women students went out every day no matter what the weather was like, and the people mar velled. “What is it,” they asked, “that leads you to come
NE of the things, that most interested me when I first came, to China twenty-five years ago, was a question that I heard on the street every time I went out. “Where are you going?” was the ques tion asked over and over again, and “Where are you go ing?” would be my reply, a very polite question, sometimes answered in the conventional way by a similar question in stead of giving the information that seemed to be asked for. Last Monday morning at five, o’clock, as X looked out of my bedroom window, our campus was quite a sight. From every door could be seen students going out of the dormi tories, the compound was just alive with men and women, and “Where are they going?” would surely have been your question had you been standing by my side, so I am going to tell you. Four bands of men students, twelve in each band, were going out to different fields of labor, one to the north, to the field of the Finnish Lutheran Mission, one to the south, to work in the field of the Presbyterian Mission, one to Cen tral Hunan, to work in the field of the China Inland Mis sion, one to the west of Changsha, to work in the field of the Norwegian Lutheran Mission,u another one, with only six men, to work in the country district around Changsha— in all fifty-four men. Three bauds of women students leaving for three out- stations of the China Inland Mission, “Kwei To Shih,” “Peh Kia Shan” and “Tong Shan,” which are to be their head quarters; and from these places they are to work in the country districts surrounding them— in all twenty-two women. Think of it! Seventy-six men and women students, in addition to the men in the regular bands, out for July and August to preach the unsearchable riches of Christ. Seventy-six Lights in the midst of heathen darkness. Please pray that these Lights may shine very brightly and that many may be led by them into the glorious light of the Gospel. Last winter, during the Chinese New Year holidays, when our students had a month’s vacation, they went out in similar bands, and at the regular report meetings on the first Saturday night after their return our hearts were greatly stirred as we listened to the way God had opened doors and hearts, and the blessed response to the messages so faithfully delivered. Oh, the joy and gladness on the faces of the students! It was wonderful! It was our first experience in sending out women students in groups and on account of the Chinese custom of keeping women more or less secluded, we did. not feel quite sure how it would work, so after they had been away a few days, Miss Griwing, a young lady who is giving, us temporary help in the school, went out on a tour of inspection, and she came’ back with a very happy heart saying: “It works well.” Later, the evangelist who
THE TWELVE GRADUATES WHO WILL WORK FOR TWO YEARS IN BIOLA EVANGELISTIC BANDS
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