Nathan Sites; an epic of the East . on he askedof each by name, and pronounced each couple manand wife in the name of the Holy Trinity. Ourpeople had never seen more than one couple mar-ried at a time and predicted great confusion, butwe had a carefully arranged programme which 166 THE CHURCH MILITANT was as carefully carried out, and all passedsmoothly and to the delight of the native congre-gation, one of whom said: Since the creation it was not so seen inChina. A delightful reception followed the ceremony,after which our four precious girls started away,each with her young preacher husband,
Nathan Sites; an epic of the East . on he askedof each by name, and pronounced each couple manand wife in the name of the Holy Trinity. Ourpeople had never seen more than one couple mar-ried at a time and predicted great confusion, butwe had a carefully arranged programme which 166 THE CHURCH MILITANT was as carefully carried out, and all passedsmoothly and to the delight of the native congre-gation, one of whom said: Since the creation it was not so seen inChina. A delightful reception followed the ceremony,after which our four precious girls started away,each with her young preacher husband, in a littlenative boat, up or down the Min Eiver as the casemight be. They were stationed respectively fif-teen, fifty, one hundred, and two hundred andforty miles distant from Foochow, to find theirs,possibly, the only Christian home in an entirelyheathen city. Upon them, in those heroic earlydays, fell the responsibility of holding up beforea sin-sick people the Christ who promised if Hebe lifted up to draw all men unto Rapiil Transit.
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