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WITH CHRIST IN INDOCHINA - IndoChina1911

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tend the Sunday services at Faifoo, and it was not<br />

until two years later that they were permitted to have<br />

their own chapel, and then it was located in a neighboring<br />

village.<br />

One old man who was 81 years old, and his wife,<br />

just a couple of years younger, were among the<br />

faithful. They would walk the twenty miles to<br />

church each Sunday morning and back again after<br />

the service. One Sunday the old man came to the<br />

missionary and asked for special prayer. He said<br />

that when he reached the chapel Sunday mornings,<br />

he was tired, and asked for prayer that he might be<br />

able to make the journey without fatigue. The missionary<br />

thought that he might also feel tired if he<br />

walked twenty miles in the heat, for it was better<br />

than eighty degrees in the shade. The Christians<br />

joined in prayer for the old man, however, and the<br />

next Sunday he came praising the Lord that he was<br />

not a bit tired. Such simple faithputs us older Christians<br />

to shame. It is the faith of a little child, and<br />

Jesus said that such faith would remove mountains.<br />

The Lord opened another outstation at Tamky,<br />

fifty miles south of Faifoo. In this case He used an<br />

old lady who was converted through the testimony<br />

of the Christian wife of a druggist. The old lady<br />

was walking past the pharmacy one day when the<br />

wife was sitting in the store. It was one of those<br />

native stores where the whole front is open to the<br />

street. The old lady on the street was bemoaning

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