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The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 10, October, 1889 by Various
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way, go to find where Moo Hing Shan is. I go through the chapel of Kong
Moon, then San Wao city, and then got to San Ching Fan and inquire how
to get my way to see Moo Hing Shan. The preacher at that chapel say,
he's in Nor Foo Market, and so, finally, I meet him there. I then talk
over the new story with him. He like very well to work in our society,
but he had teached and preached in that place seven years and all these
brethren and scholars cannot leave him. The missionary say he could not
let him leave, because he is a true Christian--not one to begin
believing and then stop. He cannot decide yet. He will think about it.
If he sure he cannot leave there, then we find another."

A third letter is from a brother who has recently returned from China.
It speaks of good news he has received from home--news of the baptism of
six persons--one man and five women. About some of these women our
brother knows something, and says: "One of the women was about sixty
years of age. Her brother was a Christian and a preacher, and through
her brother she gain to be a Christian. After this she encountered many
trials, especially with her son's wife. Her son was in California, and
his wife and two children lived with his mother. After she became a
Christian both the children died. Their mother quarrel with her because
she will not worship the idols. Then her brother, the preacher, died.
Then she herself was taken very sick. We miss her three Sabbath days.
That time no Chinese preacher was there, and only myself and, perhaps,
one or two Christian brothers with me at the chapel. So I ask one of
them to go with me to see for what cause she was absent. She lived about
five miles from my place. We reach the village, meet a young man outside
the village, ask him 'where is the Christian woman's house?' He said to
us, 'Follow me.' So we follow him straight to her house and that young
man live there. So I found she was sick. Three women were in the house,
one of them the son's wife. These women said to us, 'If she not be a
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