WITH CHRIST IN INDOCHINA - IndoChina1911

strengthen the
and he wrote his epistles to
them that they might be built up in the most holy
faith. In this part of our work we are exhorted to
occupy till He comes.
The remaining task of the French Indo-China and
East Siam mission field includes both of these phases.
The largest language groups have been evangelized
in the sense that the gospel has been preached among
them "for a witness," though everybody has not
heard by any means.
In Cochin-China where the Christians are most
numerous, there is not more than one church or
Mission outpost for every seventy-five thousand of
the population. In Annam there is only one for
every one hundred and seventy-five thousand; and
in Tonkin not one Christian congregation for each
two hundred and seventy-five thousand people. In
Cambodia the church is smaller and the population
more scattered, consequently the gospel lighthouses
are still more widely separated.
Surely there is much need for aggressive evangel¬
ism, even in these states where the gospel has been
most widely disseminated. There are still thousands
of Annamese and Cambodian villages where Christ
has not been preached.
Most of this preaching must be done by the native
Christians themselves. In apostolic times it was as
the Christians went everywhere preaching or talking
the gospel that the church spread rapidly, and there