WITH CHRIST IN INDOCHINA - IndoChina1911

like the
on the walls of Jerusalem in the
days o£ Ezra, they should divide their labor. Mr.
Hughes was to do the praying; Mr. Hosier was to
shovel coal, and Mr. Jaffraywas to blow the whistle;
and thus they reached their steamer. When the
French captain saw the Governor's launch rushing
out full steam ahead with her whistle screeching a
steady blast, he naturally thought that some impor¬
tant official business had been overlooked, and the
steamer hove to. The little launch pulled alongside,
a ladder was let down, and three missionaries
climbed up and handed their second-class tickets to
the astonished captain.
The field was opened as a subsidiary of the South
China Conference and continued so for four years
until it was visited by our Foreign Secretary, Dr. R.
H. Glover, in 1915. By that time the resident missionary
staff numbered nine, and a new station had
been opened south of Tourane at Faifoo. An Annamese
Field Conference was organized, and Rev.
Isaac Hess, Chairman of the South China Field, was
appointed Superintendent. It was decided to divide
the missionary forces. Four were to remain in
Annam to man the Tourane and Faifoo stations, and
the other five were to go to Tonkin to open new sta¬
tions, first at Haiphong, and later in the capital city
of Hanoi.
The organization was complete, and most of the
missionaries were getting to the place where they