. The Millions 1914 . inese characters on theblackboard. Last fall the students at theBible school distributed 55,000books, Testaments, Gospels, andselected portions of Scripture, and46,000 Gospel tracts, and thatmeant personal contact with overfifty thousand of those fine, de-voted young men who come up tothe mountain to worship, theyknow not what. God has granted to us fruit notonly from the ranks of the pil-grims, but some of the priests inthose temples have turned from their idols to servethe living God. What emotions of gratitude andpraise filled my heart as I looked into the earnest anda
. The Millions 1914 . inese characters on theblackboard. Last fall the students at theBible school distributed 55,000books, Testaments, Gospels, andselected portions of Scripture, and46,000 Gospel tracts, and thatmeant personal contact with overfifty thousand of those fine, de-voted young men who come up tothe mountain to worship, theyknow not what. God has granted to us fruit notonly from the ranks of the pil-grims, but some of the priests inthose temples have turned from their idols to servethe living God. What emotions of gratitude andpraise filled my heart as I looked into the earnest andattractive face of Mr. Yuan, now one of our col-porteurs, but four years ago, at the time of our firstvisit to the Sacred Mountain, a priest in one ofthe largest temples there! Mr. Smith was obliged to return directly fromthe Bible school to America, but I stayed on for someweeks to visit our workers on the boats. One of ourmen, Hsiao Chih-heng, was traveling with me andwe arrived at the boat of Mr. Cheng and party one. MK. TIEN AND HIS PARTY OF COLPORTEURS ABOUT TO LEAVE THE HOUSE-BOAT FOR \ DAYS WORK IN THE NEIGHBORING VILLAGES. REV. c. CHAMPNESS OF THE ENGLISH Wl MISSION IS STANDING WITH Till M Photograph l>\ /•. A. Keller, Chinas Millions 57 afternoon while the men were out at their about five oclock they returned, from various di-rections with empty book bags, dusty shoes andclothing, and tired but happy faces. There was agreat brushing and splashing, and then came supper,and after supper the evening meeting for Bible studyand prayer. What an hour that was! After a briefdevotional season they took up their evening chapterin Isaiah. The first man read the first section of thechapter and briefly discussed it, the second man fol-lowed with the next section, and so on until the chap-ter was finished. Then Mr. Cheng, the leader, aroseand in a truly remarkable way summed up the even-ings work, and gave the results of his own carefulstudy of the chapter.
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