Nanking, China by O. A. Hall

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 13, 1916

Nanking, China

By O. A. Hall

O. A. HALL

DURING the past few months our work in Nanking has undergone some changes, but the Lord has led. In the spring it was decided to move the headquarters of the East China Mission from Shanghai to Nanking. As Brother Doolittle and his wife were settled there, we planned to unite our efforts in building up a stronger work in the city, as well as throughout the Anhwei Province; but Brother Doolittle was called in the autumn to connect with the training school in Shanghai, and we were left alone to carry the work in the province in connection with our general work in the division.

While this made our burdens much heavier, we proceeded to carry out the program for city work, calling in some of our best Chinese evangelists and beginning an evangelistic effort December 8, which lasted one month. As the result of the meetings, a number have been added to our list of inquirers, and those who had been previously studying were established in the truth and prepared for baptism. On the last Friday of the meeting, twenty-one were buried in baptism, and on the following day united with the church, and with grateful hearts and joy beaming in their faces, joined in the ordinance of humility for the first time.

Mrs. Hall conducts a Bible class three times each week for a very intelligent class of women, some of whom give promise of becoming efficient workers. The prospects for the future growth of the work in Nanking are very encouraging, and we hope in the coming year to see many led from darkness to the light of gospel truth.