WITH CHRIST IN INDOCHINA - IndoChina1911

missionary prayer meeting. The request was pre¬
sented to the Lord, just as numerous other requests
are prayed about by such groups in many o£ our
churches in the home land. The answer came immediately
for in less than six weeks from the day
when the request was presented in that prayer meeting—just
long enough to get the word from French
Indo-China to America—a letter came telling how
the Lord had answered prayer.
The Resident Superieur, the highest official in the
state of Annam, had approached the missionary to
ask if he would be willing to give up his lease on
the chapel at Bo Trach. He said that the Govern¬
ment wanted to build a dispensary there and would
give the Mission another site if it was willing to
change. The missionary was only too glad to agree.
Word was sent to the local official at Bo Trach, the
one who had been working against the Mission. He
was officially requested to find another site and to
construct on it a new chapel and a parsonage for
the native worker. Of course, the buildings were
bamboo native structures, but they were most suita¬
ble for the purpose, and were given to the Mission
outright. It was God's way of answering prayer,
somewhat similar to the way in which the Lord provided
money for Peter to pay the taxes. He was
told to catch a fish, and the money would be in
its mouth. The Lord caught this unfriendly official
and used him to build His chapel. Incidentally,