WITH CHRIST IN INDOCHINA - IndoChina1911

all who come within his influence. He is the center
of an "amen" corner in the Cantho church that always
rejoices the heart of the missionary who may
have the privilege of preaching there.
The old man had a peculiar experience. Before
he ever heard the gospel he had a vision in which
he saw a foreigner who was preaching a new reli¬
gion. In his dream he became convinced that this
was the true way of life, and that the God of whom
this foreigner preached was the One whom he should
worship. He forsook his idolatry and followed only
the idea that he had gotten from this vision, until
one day in Cantho he met the missionary who had
recently opened a station there. He said immediately
that this was the man whom he had seen in his
vision. He gladly listened to the gospel message
and became one of the first Christians at Cantho.
At Chaudoc there was not much progress in the
city itself, but a sorcerer from Binhlong, a village
some eighteen miles distant, became a Christian, and
a strong church sprang up there. A young secretary
in the office of the mayor of Chaudoc was brought
to Christ. He went to Bible School and became an
evangelist who has brought many to the Saviour.
From Chaudoc, too, the gospel was preached among
the expatriated Cambodians who live along the
Cochin-China border of that kingdom. This was at
a time when the Mission had not yet entered Cambodia.
But many of these Cochin-China Cambodians