Reformed Presbyterian Minutes of Synod 1919

80 MINUTES OF THE SYNOD OF THEthe cover of Olive Trees, and they ask the church at home tounite with them in this pledge.One could wish to speak of Dr. McBurney's medico-evan-igelist'c tours, those of the Rev. W. M. and Rev. J. K. Robb, andof Rev. E. C. Mitchell, by which large areas were reached. Le|but one paragraph be caught up out of Mr. Mitchell's repoutt,then we shall hear of the campaign covering two months lastFall. Says Mr. Mitchell: "A new station seems to be openingin Shuen Po, a market town about twenty miles from Lo Ting.A year ago a man came from there to be baptized. In theSpring he intended to bring others out to be baptized, but onaccount of robber conditions they could not leave home. Las)tOctober he came with four other men who received baptismand they told me there were a number of men there whowanted to be baptized. I visited them in December with LbSin Shang. They told me that I was the firstforeign mission-*ary that ever visited there and perhaps the firstforeigner. Wehad a meeting while there and four others were baptized, makingnine young men who have been baptized in that one districtthis year. They are now discussing ways and means of opening.a chapel. I told them if they would furnish the chapel themission would furnish the preacher. Their last word almostwith me as I started away was that we should pray for themthat the Lord would help them to get a chapel."When one comes to think of a general evangelistic campaignthe mind turns instinctively to the native preachers and.the Theological School where they are trained. "Observationjustifies the statement" says Mr. Robb, "that the Chineseiftrained can preach the gospel of glad tidings to their owncountrymen better than those of another race can do it, an|dthe training of a native ministry seems essential to the fur-*therance of the work." Accordingly large dependence was hadon them for the success of the campaign. After weeks ofplanning and prayer, during which sermons on the person andwork of the Holy Spirit were being preached for the rjefreshmentand quickening of the workers, both foreign and native,the immediate steps were taken. "Two conferences with similarprograms were held, one at Tak Hing, the other at LoTing." Following these "a representative joint committee ofthe Chinese Christians from Tak Hing and Lo Ting met at anintermediate point, and planned an evangelistic tour of twomonths' duration during the late Fall, covering the five districtsof our field. The plan in general was to select two ofthe best workers from each central station, these four unitedlyto make a tour of the principal cities and market towns of thisfield.""In the tour of the territory, which is about the area of theland our Saviour trod, only the more important places could betouched, and these only long enough to dispense a few morsels ofthe when itself, market bread publicity but towns of life a were was territory to reached, given the multitudes. on to every the cause,, latter side In usually of not several some simply on 30 market miles. in cities the days, town The and