WITH CHRIST IN INDOCHINA - IndoChina1911

luctantly consented, but said that the approval of the
local authorities must be obtained for each individual
project.
In most cases this was hard to secure.
At Dalat the missionaries were first permitted to
work only within the city limits. Later they were
allowed to visit some of the Mois villages but could
open no outstations.
There were a number of converts in the vicinity of
[ the French outpost at Djirinh. Authorization was
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requested to open a chapel there, but the official flatly
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refused. The missionaries tried again and again, but
always with the same result.
A meeting had been arranged at Dalat, and the
Chairman, with his family, drove up from Saigon in
an automobile. They had covered more than 100
! miles of mountain road, and pulled up at a gas sta-
| tion in front of the French hotel at Djirinh, the only
outpost where there were any conveniences within a
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radius of more than fifty miles. When the gas tank
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was filled, the missionary tried to start the car, but
it would not go. He found that a vital part of the
engine, which had worked so admirably on the
lonely jungle road up the mountain, had broken.
There was no possibility of repairing it—a new part
' was necessary. There was nothing to do but to
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telegraph his colleague from the conveniently located
} telegraph office, and ask him to bring another car to
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take the party on to Dalat.