WITH CHRIST IN INDOCHINA - IndoChina1911

could speak the language. Everything
was ready for a big offensive against the darkness of
heathenism. But "we wrestle not against flesh and
blood, but against principalities, against powers,
against the rulers of the darkness of this world,
against spiritual wickedness in high places." And
while the missionaries had been getting their equipment,
Satan also had been busy.
Those were the early days of the Great War, and
the Government was naturally suspicious of for¬
eigners. The missionaries were under constant sur¬
veillance by secret service men, and their intercourse
with the natives was closely watched. This was all
to the good as far as the Mission was concerned, for
we had nothing to hide, and the publicity thus ac¬
quired was to stand us in good stead later on. How¬
ever, for the time it was not pleasant. Malicious lies
were circulated by the enemies of the gospel. They
said that the missionaries were German spies, and
color was lent to this by the fact that one of the mis¬
sionaries had been born in Germany.
He was an
American citizen, having come to the United States
with his parents when he was an infant.
But each
time his passport was inspected there was the evidence
that he had been born in Germany.
Several
others, though native born citizens of the United
States of America, had German-sounding names, and
this added fuel to the carefully cultivated suspicions.
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