WITH CHRIST IN INDOCHINA - IndoChina1911

CHAPTER XVIII
MORE STATIONS IN CAMBODIA
BY THE end of 1931 the missionaries at Pnom
Penh had opened quite a number of outstations
in Southern Cambodia. These were grouped in a
separate district, and a new main station was opened
at Kompong Trach, not far from the city o£ Kampot
on the coast of the Gulf of Siam.
The Lord's presence with the missionaries there
was very manifest from the beginning. Several new
outstations were opened, and a great many new converts
won for the Master. On Christmas Day, 1932,
nine new converts were baptized at Kompong Trach;
this was the beginning of a new church in Southern
Cambodia. The missionaries wrote that there were
many more who had prayed (nominally accepted
Christ) but were not yet ready for baptism.
In the fall of 1932, the Cambodian native conference
was held at Kompong Trach. Since the people,
the language, and the customs of the Cambodians
are so different from the Annamese, it had been
found impracticable for them to unite in the Annamese
native conference; and as soon as there were
sufficient Cambodian Christians, a Cambodian na¬
tive conference had been instituted. These confer¬
ences were a great help in developing the Cambodian
church. The one at Kompong Trach was
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