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Answered or Unanswered?; Miracles of Faith in China
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About Answered Or Unanswered?; Miracles Of Faith In China
Product description This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... Chapter X The Rain Story The Theological Seminary of Shan Tung University was located in earlier years in the walled city of Tsing Chao Fu in Shan Tung Province. The cooperating Missions were The English Baptist Mission and the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, U. S. A. One of its professors was visiting Tsing Tau in May, 1908, when I returned to my headquarters there. I had been itinerating among the churches for about seven months and I was very tired. This professor very kindly invited me to go to his home for my two weeks of much needed rest. I accepted gladly for I thought the attention and activities of the community would be centered in the seminary, and therefore it was not likely that I would be called upon to conduct meetings. The entire province of Shan Tung (in which I now visited) was suffering from drought, for not one drop of rain had fallen for three months. And while the province has a smaller area than the state of Missouri, its population is twenty-eight and onehalf millions. Every one with the exception of the Christians was propitiating the rain god, that is they were offering paper money, food and drink and were having great processions to do him honor.* The sacred money of China is bought with the currency of the realm, but it has no purchasing value. It is used The university students were deeply concerned about conditions. They had observed the useless sacrifices of money, food and drink and the numerous processions. After two days of rest I was surprised to be called upon on Thursday afternoon and asked to hold a half-hour prayer meeting with a few students from my own church territory. When I entered the class room at the appointed time the twelve Chinese students present stood up and one of...
