a friend in Canada
about the time of which I am now writing:

"We came to this little market town in September of last year. My wife
had two women workers. I had Mr. Tung, the old evangelist, and a young
high school graduate without experience, and the only Christian man in
the district, very ignorant but with this to recommend him, that he was
converted or quickened by the Holy Spirit in the Changte revival, and
was intensely in earnest. We were here only about twenty days when
dozens began to inquire, among whom were robbers, opium sots, and
gamblers. The work went on all day and well on till midnight. We were
all tiring out. We had not enough workers. It was like a very heavy
burden that forced me to my knees. I told the Lord that he was the Lord
of the harvest, and that he must send more harvesters. There was a time
of intense looking to God, almost amounting to agony, and then the
burden lifted, and I knew that God had answered. I told my wife that I
was sure that God was going to send me workers.

"Now what is the result? Since then he has sent me two Chinese B.A.'s,
both excellent speakers. He moved an excellent elder to give up his
business, and he has been appointed an evangelist. At this center a
scholar, who was an opium user and gambler, got converted last year. His
progress has been most remarkable, and it looks as if he is going to
make one of the front-rank preachers. Also two brothers here, who were
among the first converts last year, help to preach, their father--also a
convert of last year--providing their food."

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Another gracious evidence of God's over-ruling providence was seen in
the way we, especially the children, were kept from contracting
contagious diseases. The Chinese carry their children about everywhere
in their arms, even when sick with all sorts of contagious diseases.

I give the following instance to show how impossible it was to know when
one would run into danger. Going to a certain village for a day's
preaching, I took with me little Mary, then three years of age. We were
waited on by a Christian woman who was most kind and attentive,
bringing water and food for both Mary and myself. Being much taken up
with preaching to the women, it did not occur to me to ask why she kept
her baby's face covered, for the child was always in her arms. Just as
we were leaving I asked her; then she uncovered the baby's face, and to
my horror I found that