WITH CHRIST IN INDOCHINA - IndoChina1911

able to find any suitable place that was to rent.
Finally, when they were about to return to Tourane,
they passed the entrance to an apparently abandoned
Chinese home. They went in to investigate and
found that no one was living there. It consisted of
three buildings: a good-sized entrance room, behind
that an open court, then another two-story building,
the ground floor of which would make an auditorium
large enough to seat two hundred people. And back
o£ this again was still another building with a large
garden behind it. It was an ideal spot for our purpose.
There was plenty of room for a chapel, and
plenty of room for living quarters for a native helper.
It had been the home of a Chinese brewer, who
had hung himself there. The neighbors all feared
the place, saying it was haunted, and the mission¬
aries found that the proprietors were very ready to
rent it for a nominal sum, and the Christians were
only too glad of this opportunity to show their
heathen friends that they were no longer afraid of
spirits. The church grew and multiplied until at
the end of the first six months, that is, when the
amount that the Lord had provided for opening the
work was exhausted, there was no need for foreign
support. The Christians themselves were able to
pay all expenses.
In much the same manner another group was
reached at the village of Pham Tu, twenty miles beyond
Faifoo. These people heard the Word at
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