WITH CHRIST IN INDOCHINA - IndoChina1911

tians had received a contagious type of salvation,
and, as in the days of the apostles, they went everywhere
preaching, or, as someone has put it, gossiping
the gospel.
One of the Christians was an old lady, the head
of a well-to-do family. In French Indo-China the
grandmothers are the business heads of the homes.
This lady was a good financier and had accumulated
considerable property.
Hearing that the missionary
wanted to open an outstation at the edge of the town
near where she lived, she came to the chapel hoping
to persuade him to buy a piece of her property for
the purpose. Though she was unable to make the
sale, she continued to go to church, thinking that in
this way she would gain the favor of the missionaries.
She never made the sale, but she found the
Saviour. She had hoped for worldly gain, but found
the true riches, and her earthly possessions took on
a new value.
She held them as a steward of her
Lord and became one of those who gave largely for
the spread of the gospel. Her family had been very
much opposed to her following this foreign religion,
as they considered the gospel. But Mrs. Ban lived
such a consistent Christian life and had such a burn¬
ing testimony that it was not long before more than
twenty-five of her sons and daughters, grandsons and
granddaughters, nephews and nieces, and two of her
own brothers had sought the same Saviour who had