WITH CHRIST IN INDOCHINA - IndoChina1911

and paid for by the Christians; thus the first church
was organized at Ubon.
A great handicap to the missionaries' work in
East Siam is the state of the lanes through the forests,
which are called roads. Deep ditches, ruts,
broken bridges, stumps, and fallen trees across the
path are ordinary. The roads are supposed to be
practicable for automobiles during the dry seasons;
in the rainy season they are impossible. They are
such that at their best one cannot travel more than
eight or ten miles an hour, and that only at the hazard
of broken springs or broken bones. But the
missionaries have taken the gospel far and wide by
auto, by bicycle, on foot, and up and down the rivers
by boat and by raft. Faithful seed sowing has been
done but, with such poor access to the villages and
country districts, they can only cover a restricted area.
The Lord has added His blessing to these itiner¬
ations, and there has been a widespread awakening,
particularly in the Khon Ken district. At the close
of 1935, the missionary there wrote: "It is with
much praise to God that we are enabled this year
to report a real movement Godwards. Hundreds
have prayed, and scores of villages have been entered
with the gospel message for the first time. This
movement has spread from village to village until
now there are Christians in places of which we had
never heard and in sections that are still awaiting
their first visit from the missionary. The Christians