. A'Chu and other stories. re for our books, and many could not read. After this stop, our wheelbarrow men showed a realdesire to get to the end of the journey. They drovethe last half of the distance with but one short they started out this way, we might have reachedthe large village which was our destination by it was, we did not arrive till four oclock in theafternoon. A very comfortable room had been pre-pared for us. When the messenger they had sent toinvite us gave out word the teachers had come, anearnest group of Chinese immediately came to be taught. SOWING THE GOSPEL
. A'Chu and other stories. re for our books, and many could not read. After this stop, our wheelbarrow men showed a realdesire to get to the end of the journey. They drovethe last half of the distance with but one short they started out this way, we might have reachedthe large village which was our destination by it was, we did not arrive till four oclock in theafternoon. A very comfortable room had been pre-pared for us. When the messenger they had sent toinvite us gave out word the teachers had come, anearnest group of Chinese immediately came to be taught. SOWING THE GOSPEL SEED As soon as we were settled, our Chinese evangel-ist sent out his card to the most important men ofthe town. This card was a strip of heavy bright-redpaper, bearing his name written in three large blackcharacters, in a perpendicular line down the at once, those who received these cards, began tocall. Through them, word that there would be a publicmeeting in the evening, was carried throughout EVANGFXTRT FAIT DEN DJTTTU 91 92 AChu and Other Stories That evening fully two hundred persons came tillthere was no longer standing room in the big house,nor in the street before the door. The company consistedmainly of men and boys, with only now and then aventuresome woman in a distant part of the room. Thepoor and the rich came. The docile peasant in bluecotton garments crowded close upon the proud mandarinclothed in rich silks and soft fur. All listened attentivelywhile the evangelist told how the true God, whom henow served, is different from the gods whom he onceserved. The true God claims every mans love and obediencebecause he created us. Then he related his own ex-perience in becoming a Christian. Surely, he said, if God could save a sinner like me, he can save you,my friends. Some listened with deep interest, and one couldfeel that these meant to follow the speakers adviceand become worshipers of the true God. Otherslooked dazed and bewildered, as
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