Life and light for woman . erty of the church, for use as a chapeland also for a school; and the next Sunday a church of twelve mem-bers was organized at this village. From this time the work devel-oped rapidly in all directions. A large medical work carried on at themission station in Pang-kia-Chwang also opened the way to many homesand hearts. Pastor Chia, first as preacher and helper, and afterwards as pastor,was long a tower of strength to the church in Western Shantung. Aman of strong, forceful personality, he had much to do with the buildingup of the church, almost if not quite from its
Life and light for woman . erty of the church, for use as a chapeland also for a school; and the next Sunday a church of twelve mem-bers was organized at this village. From this time the work devel-oped rapidly in all directions. A large medical work carried on at themission station in Pang-kia-Chwang also opened the way to many homesand hearts. Pastor Chia, first as preacher and helper, and afterwards as pastor,was long a tower of strength to the church in Western Shantung. Aman of strong, forceful personality, he had much to do with the buildingup of the church, almost if not quite from its earliest beginnings. It 474 Life and Light \_November was said of him that, every night he prayed by name for all the churchmembers—of whom, in later years, there came to be many hundreds;and this may have had something to do with the fact that the Pang-kia-Chwang church is now the largest church connected with the AmericanBoards North China Mission, having more than a thousand members,in many cities, towns and PASTOR WANG AND FAMILY, PEKING Like most of the stations of the American Board in North China, theLintsingchow station in Western Shantung, south of Pang-kia-Chwang,is in a densely populated portion of the Great Plain, covered withwalled cities, towns, villages and hamlets, all easily accessible and in-viting the labors of Christian missionaries. This place was openedas a station by Rev. F. M. Chapin in 1886, making the seventh and laststation of the North China Mission. Says the report for the year 1903- ioi2~\ Evangelistic Worts for the Women of China 475 1904: The great event of the year was the wide movement towardProtestant Christianity in the large region to the west of Lin-Ching, em-bracing one entire county and portions of seven others. The movementbegan in 1902 in the district of Chin Hsien, and has spread throughthe above region. The number of those who gave in their names forregistration was not kept. It is over five hundred and might have ex-ceed
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