Under marching orders : a story of Mary Porter Gamewell . nd prayer-meetingsdepend upon it. The chapel is the onlyassembly-room for funerals alid is celebrated there. There is noplace for commencement exercises but in thechapel. What will become of these interestsif the chapel falls? When it was built itssize seemed so out of proportion to the num-bers assembled, and the work then under way,that our friends remarked: You must havegreat faith to build so large a house with anyhope of filling it. The faith has beenrewarded. The work has so outgrown thechapel accommodations tha
Under marching orders : a story of Mary Porter Gamewell . nd prayer-meetingsdepend upon it. The chapel is the onlyassembly-room for funerals alid is celebrated there. There is noplace for commencement exercises but in thechapel. What will become of these interestsif the chapel falls? When it was built itssize seemed so out of proportion to the num-bers assembled, and the work then under way,that our friends remarked: You must havegreat faith to build so large a house with anyhope of filling it. The faith has beenrewarded. The work has so outgrown thechapel accommodations that for several yearswe have felt the need of a large church, butschools and country work have been in suchurgent straits, and we need such a big churchnext time one is built, that we have delayedasldng for an appropriation, hoping that thetime might come when we could ask, with ahope of receiving it, about ten thousand dol-lars to build a church that would answer mis-sion purposes for the next twenty years. Ifyou find it in your power to help us to a new. A Chinese Sunday School 109 churcli, you will be sending a 1)road beam ofcheer into the shadows, that will lift us up andstrengthen us to a degree that perhaps youlittle imagine. Mrs. GamewelPs letter was a challengewhich some large-hearted people in Americacould not refuse to accept. By return mailthe first instalment of a large sum of moneywas forwarded to Peking, and later, while ona furlough in America, Mr. Gamewell securedthe help of a competent architect to prepareplans for the new church. They were build-ing, as they thought, for twenty years atleast, and the workmanship must be substan-tial. A structure made of brick and wood,with seating capacity for fifteen hundred, wasdesigned, and Mr. Gamewell returned toPeking to superintend its erection. In course of time the wonderful new build-ing was completed and christened AsburyChurch. It was the architectural pride ofthe compound, and also the largest Protes-tant church in
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