WITH CHRIST IN INDOCHINA - IndoChina1911

copies of Scripture portions, that is, the Gospels
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, or some other individual
book of the Bible, have been sold. These are
not given away but sold at a very low price, for it
has been learned by experience that that for which
people pay something is valued more and taken
more seriously than that which they receive for
nothing.
The Mission press at Hanoi printed and published
these Scriptures, and has had a great part in the
evangelization o£ French Indo-China. Millions of
religious tracts and books, hymnals, and other litera¬
ture have been published and distributed from it.
Without religious literature in its own language, no
national church can expect to grow. The Hanoi
Press has produced such literature, first, for the
Annamese church, and later, for the other national
churches that have been born in French Indo-China.
Haiphong, the other colonial city of Tonkin, and
the one where there had been a station in 1915, was
early reopened as an outstation from Hanoi. A
group of expatriated Chinese, who had been Chris¬
tians before they left their homes in China to
come to Tonkin, helped to make this outstation a
success. They cast in their lot with a few Annamese
who accepted Jesus as their Saviour, and formed the
nucleus of the Haiphong church. A couple of years
later a missionary couple were appointed to Hai¬
phong, and it became a main station.