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their mouths wide open, drinking in what is being said. A reading-room is kept in connection with the chapel. This is a great attraction to educated men. One could preach to a crowd there, all day long if there were only enough speakers to keep it up. It seems to me that the street-chapel can be made one of the strongest forces in winning China. “Fan Cheng and Siang Yang united forces last summer and held a series of meetings, resulting in a revival among the students in our schools. Many of the children who had never taken a stand for Christ did so during those days. The evening prayer meet ings were carried bn until late hours. We hope they will be used of the Lord this summer in their homes, so that their owit folks may also, through their testimony, learn to know the only One that can save them. “I hope you are sending us many recruits this year. I have been so glad to hear of so many'Bible Institute students and Fish ermen going to the foreign fields. I feel it is the greatest privilege the Lord can give pne. I was so glad to get the Fishermen paper. I hope more will come. I look over the list of names'“occasionally and read the Scripture verses. They have brought many messages to me. “The church here now has a pretty large membership. Two weeks ago baptismal services were Held and twenty-three per sons received baptism. Some business men arid teachers came in with a request for a class in Bible study, which, of course, was arranged for, and a good number of promi nent mdn attend regularly, showing much interest in the doctrine.”
as the dirtiest. Beggars were everywhere, some of them dreadful to look at, full of sores, deformed and filthy. It is so sad to see it all. The men were all bare to the waist, as it was so hot, but the women wear the same clothing whether it is hot or cold, the long sleeves and high necks look comfortable. Many of the small boys wear no clothing, but the girls do. The people seem to do everything right on the street—women washing ,or nursing their babies—and there are children by the hun dred. It seems sometimes as if there must be collisions between rickishas, sedan chairs, men carrying heavy burdens, children and other things, but they seem to have the faculty of steering around each other. We took dinner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Davis, who have a school in Wuchang, and took tea with Mr. and Mrs. Eckwold, who have been in China twenty-three years and have four children, all born here. Mr. Eckwold is an evangelist.” FROM SIAND YANG A l b e r t m . J o h n s o n , graduate of the Bible Institute, now at Siang Yang, Hupeh Province, China, writes to Superin tendent Horton, After expressing highest appreciation of a letter received from “Dear Daddy,” he says: “I have been going to the street-chapel of late, playing violin or guitar to help draw a crowd, and this has been a great joy to me, as well as a means of arousing a great desire to be telling the story from my own lips. “People of almost all classes come in here, and many who have never before heard the gospel. Some actually sit with
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