WITH CHRIST IN INDOCHINA - IndoChina1911

easily than the English-speaking missionaries, the
Board sent them out in 1902. They entered the port
of Haiphong. Their plan was to open a station in
Tonkin, but the time had not yet come, and the next
year they returned to South China.
In 1905 Lung Chow was opened as a mission station
by the South China Field. It was hoped that
this station would prove a gateway from which the
gospel might be carried across the border into Tonkin
and Annam. But it was found impracticable to reach
the Annamese from there, other than to evangelize
those who had left their native land to settle in
China. The French were less open to this back-door
entrance, if we may call it such, than they were to
permit the missionaries to enter at one of their large
port cities.
The itinerary that resulted in the first permanent
entrance into French Indo-China was made in 1911.
In the spring of that year Mr. Jaffray went with two
young missionaries, Rev. Paul M. Hosier and Rev.
G. Lloyd Hughes, to the port city of Tourane, midway
down the coast of Annam. They purchased our
present Mission property there and returned to
South China. Mr. Jaffray was never permitted to
become a resident missionary of French Indo-China,
but it was expected that Messrs. Hosier and Hughes
would soon return to live at Tourane. Mr. Hughes,
however, was called to higher service in the summer
of 1911, and the same year Mr. Hosier came back to