WITH CHRIST IN INDOCHINA - IndoChina1911

from one station to another, a new authorization
was necessary before he could begin at his new post.
At one of the provincial centers, Quang Ngai, an
authorization was given to an undergraduate student.
In less than a year he had returned to Bible
School for further training, and an ordained pastor
was sent to this important station. There had been
a good deal of Communism in the province. One of
the uprisings had been at this particular city. The
local Governor used this as a pretext for refusing
to recommend the authorization of the new pastor.
He said that public meetings in that province should
be banned as far as possible. He did not refuse to
allow them entirely, but required that the foreign
missionary be present whenever they were held. This
condition continued for almost a year. The Annamese
pastor lived there; but whenever the mission¬
ary was not in town, police were stationed at the
door of the chapel to see that no meetings were held.
Quang Ngai is about 75 miles from the main station
at Tourane, thus it was not possible for the
missionary to be there every week.
A battalion of France's foreign legion had been
stationed at Quang Ngai to repress the Communist
uprisings. Their barracks were just across the road
from the chapel. Some of the legionnaires were
from Protestant families, and they would come to
the chapel occasionally to talk with the pastor. A
high officer of the legion died. He was a Protestant