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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 5, 1908

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 85, No. 10.

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Chang-Sha

By P. J. Laird

CHANG-SHA.—A great change has come over our teacher, after the several months’ contact with present truth in its various phases. He is bringing others to meetings. It is somewhat unique to see the inquirers bringing out their note-books and pencils at our Bible classes. Two are being trained for colporteurs. They study with me for two hours each day, and canvass the remainder of the day. One came in from the station, where it is reported there are fourteen who meet on the Sabbath more or less regularly. This place is nine days distant by post from here.
The other student has tendered his resignation to the Methodist Mission, that he may keep the Sabbath. He was for eight years in their school at Kiukiang, a treaty port on the Yangtze. Word is daily expected from a very capable evangelist who we expect will accept the message; also from a woman who has attained to the honor of being a school-teacher, such women being uncommon in Hunan.
Our Bible classes, although they may not reach a high average, certainly are stirring the hearts of men who attend.All these men can read and write well. Better still, they give their testimony before others. Pray for these people, that they may fully accept this message so full of joy and peace. This work and the translating takes up our time so fully that we do not put in many hours at school teaching English. We trust this gap will yet be filled, if it is the Lord’s will that Seventh-day Adventists are to enter this branch of labor in China.
To supply our wants, wooden blocks are being carved, from which tracts are being printed. This method has the merit of being cheap, and takes up none of our time; for the original is given to the carver, and he returns a block and as many tracts as we request.
We thank God the work is not ours, but his. If we but let him work through us, there will be showers of blessing untold. Praise God for the progress of his wonderful message. P. J. LAIRD.