CHINESE EVANGELISTS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 24, 1900

CHINESE EVANGELISTS.

IN a certain village, called San Yuam, which is known as the “Gospel Village,” the native converts were anxious to secure a room to hold services in, and so they undertook to build a place themselves, and also find the material. A chapel was in this way erected to accommodate 300 or 400 persons, and the cost to the Baptist Society was only £15. When Mr. Shorrocks was returning to England the people presented him with a silk

banner, bearing the inscription in Chinese characters, “Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord,” and their spokesman said, “We can't give you a big present, but we will contribute 500 days' labor in building a school where our leaders can instruct us.” “On one occasion,” narrates Mr. Shorrocks, “my colleague and I were much surprised to see some men coming toward us with wheelbarrows. We soon discovered that they were bringing a number of petitions from 200 villages, urging the missionaries to go out to teach them.”

—Illinois Christian World.