Letters from the Far East . oof to these rooms leaks so badly that when itrains hard, there is not a dry spot where the familycan sit, and recently the water stood inches deep on thekitchen floor. One of the children has had pneumoniatwice as a result of living in this damp place. Thepastor receives a salary of seventeen dollars, Mexican,a month. The church-members have been praying forten years for a new church (which would also includea home for the pastor). The church-members are very poor, as one wouldknow to see them; yet they raised fifty dollars lastyear, which must have meant self-deni
Letters from the Far East . oof to these rooms leaks so badly that when itrains hard, there is not a dry spot where the familycan sit, and recently the water stood inches deep on thekitchen floor. One of the children has had pneumoniatwice as a result of living in this damp place. Thepastor receives a salary of seventeen dollars, Mexican,a month. The church-members have been praying forten years for a new church (which would also includea home for the pastor). The church-members are very poor, as one wouldknow to see them; yet they raised fifty dollars lastyear, which must have meant self-denial to of them are old, and some have been tried inthe fire, standing firm through the Boxer uprising of1900. Even lately the pastors life has been threatened, andone of the members whom we saw that day, a Chris-tian of only three years standing, has been bitterlypersecuted and threatened, because he refused to iden-tify himself with the heathen life of the communityby carrying a lantern in the parade to the LETTERS FROM THE FAR EAST 6y He said, You can kill me, but I will not carry thelantern. In the afternoon the Lords Supper was the preacher is unordained, they can only have theordinance when some one comes who has authority toadminister it. On this occasion it was Mr. Dickie, ofthe C. I. M. of Kinhwa, our own evangelistic workerhaving had to return to America on account of hiswifes health. We had a full day with the three ser-vices, and returned to Kinhwa, tired, but feeling repaidfor our effort by what we had seen. We might add here, that a letter received from thepastor of this church, in the summer, reported sixbaptisms, a number of inquirers, and the marked pres-ence of the Holy Spirit. On June 4 we once more left Kinhwa, taking theboat for Hangchow. There was a good-sized partyof us, and we were en route for Mokanshan, to escapethe heat, of which we had already had a sample. Thistrip was one of the most uncomfortable we had inChina, owing
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