WITH CHRIST IN INDOCHINA - IndoChina1911

work in southern Cambodia. For the year 1933,
there were no converts reported from Kompong
Trach district, and the missionaries were discouraged.
But the increased difficulties produced a great
volume of prayer, and our God hears and answers
prayer,
The son of the French official, whose duty it was
to interpret the King's decree and enforce it in southern
Cambodia, was taken sick. His case seemed
hopeless. One day the missionary met this official
who, in the course of their conversation, told him
of his son's condition. The missionary offered to
pray for him, and the Lord healed him. Since that
day the missionary has a firm friend there. He is
allowed to visit the outstations; and when converts
are made who live at outside points, he is permitted
to visit them too. The same liberty is given to him
as is accorded to the workers in northern Cambodia.
The King's decree is interpreted as prohibiting the
missionaries from opening new work in districts
where there are no Christians. But they are allowed
to go where there are already Christians, even
though they be new ones. Thus the progress of
the work is restricted to those places where the lord
leads the way, by first bringing someone into contact
with the gospel at an established outstation.
These learn to know the Lord, and become the key
men or women to carry the Word back to their vil¬
lages. "The Lord working with them" is not only