WITH CHRIST IN INDOCHINA - IndoChina1911

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from the mission station and out of victory, he yield¬
ed to the persuasion of his neighbors and called in
a Cambodian sorcerer. That night God, the Lord,
spoke to both Mr. and Mrs. Sott in dreams. They
realized the heinousness of their sin in thus deserting
their Saviour. They rose from their beds, threw
out the offerings that had been prepared for the
spirits, and confessed their sin to God. He heard
their prayer, as He always does for the truly penitent,
and Mrs. Sott began to improve immediately.
Several years later, the missionary was visiting in
the home where Mr. and Mrs. Sott had lived in that
village, and they found chalked on the wall, this
verse of Scripture, "I am with you alway, even unto
the end." Mr. Sott had written it in that hour of
testing.
A chapel was opened for the Annamese at Battambang,
and a student evangelist from the Tourane
Bible School was appointed there. Annamese are
to be found in nearly all the cities of Cambodia;
and although Battambang is more than 250 miles
from the border of Cochin-China, yet there is a good
sized colony of them there. This young man not
only preached the gospel to his expatriated compatriots,
but he diligently applied himself to learning
Cambodian. He even mastered the character
writing of that language, and he gave a strong wit¬
ness for his Lord to the Cambodians whom he met.
On one occasion, while the missionaries were