WITH CHRIST IN INDOCHINA - IndoChina1911

held just after the decree had been issued restricting
the missionary propaganda in Cambodia. Delegates
were there from all parts of the kingdom, and
the day meetings were especially for them. The
effect of these services was to strengthen their faith
and to send them back to their homes with a new
determination to be true to their Saviour no matter
what it might cost. The evening meetings were evan¬
gelistic and were well attended. There were many
earnest inquirers and some accepted the Lord as
their Saviour.
Job l: 6 tells of a day when the sons of God were
gathered in a place of fellowship with the Lord, and
it says "Satan came also among them." He was at
that convention at Kompong Trach, and he did not
like what he saw there. He stirred up the powers
that be, and a decree was issued saying that this intense
missionary activity in southern Cambodia must
be stopped. The local Cambodian officials began a
policy of persecutions and threatenings, calculated
to stop the work. The King's decree was inter¬
preted to say that only those stations that had been
officially opened were to be allowed to continue.
Most of the outstations in Cambodia had been unofficially
opened; that is, there had been no documents
given to the missionaries to authorize their
activities.
For a time it looked as though the enemy would
succeed in stopping the development of the Lord's