Nathan Sites; an epic of the East . Rapiil A waited at the jetty for the turning of tlic tide. XXVITHE ARSENAL ON a New Years eve a houseboat waited atthe China Merchants jetty for the turningof the tide. Three passengers were al-ready on board. They were old friends, not onlyto one another but to you. There was Elder Sia,and with him, as in the old days when theytramped over the hills together on preaching-tours, the converted blacksmith Lee and the boypreacher Yek, both of them now elders too. Conference had just closed, the ChristmasConference of 1877,—Conference with
Nathan Sites; an epic of the East . Rapiil A waited at the jetty for the turning of tlic tide. XXVITHE ARSENAL ON a New Years eve a houseboat waited atthe China Merchants jetty for the turningof the tide. Three passengers were al-ready on board. They were old friends, not onlyto one another but to you. There was Elder Sia,and with him, as in the old days when theytramped over the hills together on preaching-tours, the converted blacksmith Lee and the boypreacher Yek, both of them now elders too. Conference had just closed, the ChristmasConference of 1877,—Conference with a big the famous Christmas Conference at Balti-more nearly one hundred years before, it hadmeant great things to an infant church. This had been, in a legal sense, the first sessionof the Foochow Conference. The growing annualmeeting of the early days had attained, so tospeak, its majority. There being now a sufficientnumber of ordained ministers, they had been con-stituted, according to the laws of the Church, intoa self-governing body l
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