. Missionary Visitor, The (1916) . eat deal of information as towhat we should take with us. At Han-kow we received a letter, saying had rented a house for the Lord was leading us step bystep in the darkness, and we were indeed S6 The Missionary Visitor March1916 thankful, for his answer to our Hankow on the real difficultiesof a foreign land were upon us, for theycould speak no English and we couldspeak no Chinese. By packing every-thing in a freight car, eating, sleeping,and riding here most of the way, we atlast arrived at Tai Yuen Fu, the capitalof Shansi.
. Missionary Visitor, The (1916) . eat deal of information as towhat we should take with us. At Han-kow we received a letter, saying had rented a house for the Lord was leading us step bystep in the darkness, and we were indeed S6 The Missionary Visitor March1916 thankful, for his answer to our Hankow on the real difficultiesof a foreign land were upon us, for theycould speak no English and we couldspeak no Chinese. By packing every-thing in a freight car, eating, sleeping,and riding here most of the way, we atlast arrived at Tai Yuen Fu, the capitalof Shansi. Here we were welcomed bythe English missionaries and entertained of the three places we decided that theeast mountains were the best. visited Ping Ting and LePing in February, 1910, was favorablyimpressed, and proceeded to secureproperty. No one would rent, for theywere afraid of foreigners. After re-peated visits and much difficulty an oldhouse was bought for about seventy dol-lars, gold. The owner, not being a na-. L_ The Present Boys School at Ping; Ting: Hsien. for the night. The next day we movedinto our rented compound and began thestudy of the language. Thus the firststep in the location was find the least occupied and themost needy part of the field several in-vestigating trips were made. In March,1909, F. H. Crumpacker and Geo. made a trip to the east mountainswith our friend, Mr. Corbin, of theAmerican Board Mission. On this tripthey visited Liao Chou and the sur-rounding country. In April they made atrip west towards the Yellow River incompany with Mr. Corbin and Mr. Pye,also from the American Board. A thirdtrip was made north in September, but tive of the province, wanted money very-badly so that he could return to hishome, but as soon as the people of thecity heard that he had sold to us, he wasforced to stay in hiding as they intendedto give him a good beating. But began repairing the houseand making friends.
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