PASSENGERS BEING LANDED FROM THE FERRY ON THE BACKS OF COOLIES AT CHIFU.
Chinese Colporteur Delivered
By J. J. WESTRUP.
We have a chapel just outside the city of Pi-yang, in Honan. The country is full of robbers, and recently they came to plunder the city. The gates were locked, and soldiers mounted on the walls. Then the robbers compelled the people living outside to carry fuel to the gates in order to burn them. The soldiers on the wall shot down those who carried the fuel, while the robbers behind shot those who refused to carry it. It was a terrible situation.
One of our colporteurs was captured by the robbers and ordered to carry fuel. As he advanced with his burden, he saw others shot down at the right and left. He prayed for deliverance as he walked, and a bullet struck him, passing through his leg. Then he could not walk, and was excused from further attempts by the robbers. He thanked God for the deliverance, and the Chinese observers said, “He is more valuable than we; his God can help him.”
The colporteur hired a wheelbarrow man, and after a two-days journey arrived at our mission station, and in a few weeks was fully healed. He feels that the promise of the ninety-first psalm was literally fulfilled in his experience.
