King's Business - 1923-09

OUR BIBLE INSTITUTE IN HUNAN PROVINCE, CHINA DR. FRANK A. KELLER, Superintendent

t Biola Evangelistic Band No. 2 Tien Hsin Pei, Leader, in center. (This is the Mr. Tien spoken of in this article.)

ing buildings for the great West China Christian University at Chengtu, Szech– uan, 'This afternoon we gathered in my cabin for an hour of Bible study and prayer, the Rev. Shen Wen Ching, a leading pastor and evangelist of the English Wesleyan Mission, and one of our most valued Nanyoh speakers, Jed our service and gave us a very helpful talk on Acts 2, 37-42, emphasizing the fundamen ta! importance of true heart repentance and turning from all known sin, and the Holy Spirit as the only source of power in life and service. After the meeting, Professor Marcus Cheng, a pastor of the Swedish Evan– gelical Mission of America, an~ a prof fessor in the Theological Semmary 0 t that mission, also a beloved teacher a our Nanyoh Bible Conference, said to us: "I want to tell you a very won-

"MY WORD SHALL NOT RETURN UNTO ME VOID"

E ARE on one of the large river steamers sailing up the Y a n g ts e returning from Shanghai, where we have been

attending the annual meeting of the National Christian Council of China. Six ' of. our party are members of this Council, and we have been joined on the ship by two young men, Mr. Alfred Davidson, a. missionary i:eturning from furlough to his field, of service in west– ern Szechuan, and Mr. Hope-Gill, a Christian architect who was born in China a quarter of a century ago, was taken home to England by his mission– ary parents when he was about two years of age, and is now returning to the land of his birth to assist in erect-

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