WITH CHRIST IN INDOCHINA - IndoChina1911

was then called. From this time on, Annam was on
Dr. Simpson's heart and was frequently mentioned
in his writings.
In 1894, in an editorial in The Christian Alliance
andForeign Weekly, he mentioned the Sudan, Tibet,
and Annam as the three outstanding unoccupied
mission fields of that day.
It was not, however, until 1897 that an Alliance
missionary was permitted to visit French Indo-China,
and then it was only a visit. Rev. C. H. Reeves
crossed over the border from Lung Chow, South
China, and entered Tonkin as far as the City of
Langson. He reported: "I had the most courteous
treatment from all the French officers and soldiers
that I met, and they were not a few, for every place,
from one hundred inhabitants up, has its own military
post. During the whole of the time spent in
Tonkin, I was under the escort of Annamese or
French soldiers."
In 1889 Rev. R. A. Jaffray, then a new missionary
in South China, but one who was destined to have a
great part in the opening of French Indo-China,
crossed the Tonkin border by the same route as Mr.
Reeves. He went down the Red River as far as the
capital City of Hanoi, but was unable to get a foot¬
hold for the Mission. In 1901, while on his first
furlough in America, Mr. Jaffray met Mr. and Mrs.
Sylvan Dayan, French Canadians. Hoping that they
could find an opening in the French country more