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to meet us, and we passed through lines of earnest Chinese, through the pro fusely decorated gate into the court yard of one of the two temporary homes of the Nan Yoh Bible Conference of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles. The conference lasted three weeks. It was necessary, because of the limited capac ity of the lecture hall, to divide the delegates, half having three lectures every morning, the other half having three lectures every afternoon. The half who attended lectures in the morn ing worked among the pilgrims of the Nan Yoh shrines in the afternoon and those who attended the afternoon lec tures worked among the pilgrims in the morning. In the very early morn ing, both divisions worked among the home going pilgrims. At the 8 A.M. devotional meeting the two divisions as sembled at the two different compounds where they were staying and eating. The largest (attendance at any pre vious Nan Yoh Conference was 217, last year. This year 350 had enrolled, but it was doubtful how many in the dis turbed condition of the country would get there. To the surprise of every one 303 actually succeeded in making their way to Nan Yoh, several of whom were robbed on the way of everything by retreating soldiers become bandits. Many of these 303 walked five days to get to Nan Yoh. Many had walked ten days. Quite a number had walked twenty days, and a few between twenty and thirty days. When we consider that there were only a few over 240 Chinese in attendance at the Peitaiho Chinese Bible Conference this year and only 255 at the Kuling Chinese Bible Conference, and that all of the dele gates to the Peitaiho and Kuling Con ferences came through no perils what ever by steamboat and rail, and had all their travelling expenses paid by the Conference management, and that the delegates to Nan Yoh came through many very real and imminent perils and
One of Dr. Keller's Bible Evangelists 4:6, 7. The brave, though physically weak, little Presbyterian woman mis sionary, against my advice, decided to land and jumped into the boat and her necessary baggage was put in also. The tug immediately started. Her husband shouted to a Christian home on the cliff a quarter of a mile away from the landing, and they ran to meet the brave woman. It was after midnight when we reached Hengshan, twelve miles from Nan Yoh, the nearest place on the river. We went aboard one of the Biola Gospel Boats, anchored there and got to bed about 2 A.M. We were up before 6 and after a light breakfast started for Nan Yoh, afoot or in chairs. Word of our coming preceded us and Biola students and others hurried out
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