WITH CHRIST IN INDOCHINA - IndoChina1911

THE FAITH OF THE EARLY CHRISTIANS 51
being dead, although it appeared so. He was led
to kneel beside the bed and ask God to raise it up.
In a few minutes it sat up in bed, and within a
couple of hours was playing outside with the other
children.
Such answers to prayer, usually the prayers of the
Annamese Christians, were common in the church.
There was a time when the testimonies, whenever
there was a fellowship meeting, were all along this
line, until the missionaries were constrained to pray
that the Lord would make plain to the natives how
much more precious were spiritual blessings than
these physical deliverances. Scores of converts were
first attracted to the church because they saw these
evidences of the Lord's presence and power.
The missionaries never needed to teach the natives
about divine healing. To them it was obvious that
if they became followers of Jesus, they should see
evidence of His power. Moreover, the fear of demons
left them. It was the expulsive power of a
new affection. Perhaps I should say, a new possession,
for Christ had come in, and the fear of Satan
had gone out. One Christian young man received a
large sum of money for cutting down a banyan tree,
which was supposed to be inhabited by demons and
which the heathen had feared to touch. Later, when
outstations were opened, it became almost the rule
to rent for this purpose houses that were considered
to be haunted. Such places could be had for a very