WITH CHRIST IN INDOCHINA - IndoChina1911

Jesus Christ and what He desired to do for all who
would trust Him.
One day, about nine months after the missionaries
had arrived in Vientiane, this man asked if he could
not become a Christian. This was what the missionaries
had been praying for from the very beginning,
and with happy hearts though halting words, they
led him to the Saviour who gives power to become
sons o£ God to all who believe on His name. Little
by little, the missionaries learned from what their
first convert had been saved. He confessed that he
had stolen cattle, had been a liar, a thief, and an
opium smoker; he had once served a prison sentence
for smuggling opium across the Siam-Laos border.
The Lord made him very conscious of his transgressions,
but showed him that He had "died for our
sins according to the Scriptures." Now he is rejoicing
in a real sense of freedom from sin.
He had many testings and persecutions. His
friends and his family opposed and ridiculed him,
but his faith did not waver. He became the missionaries'
right-hand man. Wherever he went, he
would gossip the gospel, and urge his listeners to
come to Jesus. His testimony carried weight; for
although many were inclined to argue, they had no
answer for that greatest of all arguments for Christianity—the
life of a man transformed by the power
of God. They had known him in the old days;
some of them had purchased contraband opium from