WITH CHRIST IN INDOCHINA - IndoChina1911

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glad to do this, but the law in French Indo-China
demands that all such meetings be held in authorized
chapels. Meetings are not permitted in the homes
of individuals. At the time there was no money in
the Mission treasury to rent a chapel and the in¬
terested people were not prepared to rent one for
themselves. Several of the missionaries united in
prayer that special funds might be forthcoming for
this purpose. The Lord answered almost immediately
by sending sufficient cash to finance the project
for six months.
The missionaries thought that probably this would
be enough to carry the rental until a church should
have been established. Such had been the case in
many other places. But the Lord did not choose to
work that way this time. A local native official was
greatly opposed to the gospel and did all that he
could to intimidate those who might otherwise have
come, with the result that at the end of the six
months for which there were funds in hand, the
work was still promising, but it was far for selfsupporting.
Mission funds were scarcer than they
had been when the chapel was opened. Consequently
the local missionary wrote to one of his colleagues
who had come to America for furlough, saying,
"Pray that the Lord will undertake for the village of
Bo Trach; special funds are exhausted; and unless
God intervenes, we shall have to close the chapel
next month." The letter was read at a women's