The Gospel Spreads Through a Village
IN the Reformed Presbyterian mission at Takhing, Kwang-tung, China, the way the leaven works has been actually visible to the eye. A little village two days' distant is occupied by one family—an old woman of ninety being at the head, and her descendants to the fourth generation living about her. A man of the third generation went away to work, and was converted. When he came back, he was punished. But he stood firm, told his friends what the Lord had done for him, and prayed for them steadily. Then one of the fourth generation went away, and was converted. There were now two to testify and to pray. Next, two more of the third generation were converted, and there were four to pray. Last fall two more of the third and one of the fourth generation were converted. These then invited the missionaries to visit the village. Out of the forty persons living there, only one was still an idolater, and she was the aged mother of all. In April of this year some of the ladies of the mission succeeded in coaxing the old woman to learn the Lord's prayer, and while the volume of intercession grows, there is reason to hope that she, too, will yield her proud will.