Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-03-29
JOHN LAKE WRITES.
Continued from First Page.)

being fine Christian woman of the.
best type of our Chinese Baptists
And now this will particularly
interest YOU there at home. Whenfa
committee of South Carolina breth.,
rem. most of them members of your.
church, undertook the support Of.
Mr.. Snuggs and his wife until they.
were re.appointcd by the board and
sent to open up new work at Pax
Hoi in another part of this same
Canton province (or state) he, with
The financial and moral support that
some of us could give. az in Honan,
fitted it up for a Baptist chapel, es-
tablishing another schools for girls,
that was three quarters of an hours
walk from one other school there,
so there was no possible semblance
of conflict, established a school, for
boys; located a Chinese pastor
baptlzed little band of converts
and finally organized church, the
fifth Baptist church of Canton city.
Just before our return from fur
Tough, Brother Snuggs having gone
to his new field, where he has now
gotten a good start, | am glad to
say-he deserves success-the mis-,
sion, at the boards suggestion, vot-
ed to put the work on Honan
(South Canton) in our charge and
we came back TO take up that and
all our former eyangelistic work
tield work), and more, and we were
rejoiced to find the Honan church
getting a good start, having 4s
members ia of them added by bap-
,ism and four by letter in 1857
having raised the equivalent of over
500 in American money towards
self-support during the year, that
was a good start, and having a;
Sunday school with eighteen mem
bers. In other words we found
live, growing church which reflects
great credit on it's builders.
Several months ago a fire swept
up the street to within one house of
the chapel, a narrow business house,
whose walls adjoined the chapel and
was extinguished partly with water
from the baptistry. On the other
side of the very narrow streets, as
most Of the streets are: in Canton,
the fire destroyed the house exactly
opposite our chapel and was put
out. Now listen
A few days ago wife and l re.
turned from two weeks trip which
l nave just written up for the
Courier, to find that large fire,
destroying ,sixty-four houses, had
swept down that street, both sides,
from the opposite direction from
which the other fire had come, had
destroyed the house opposite the
chapel again, and had also destroy
ed the one next to the chapel, their
walls also adjoining, damaging the
chapel, but not necessitating more
than rebuilding cracked wall, re-
pairing the roof, &c, and there the
fire was put out partly with water
from the baptistry, for the native
pastor had baptized a convert two
hours before. The heathen are say
ing that it pays to be a Christian,
and others are saying that it pays
TO be Baptist. This much is true,
if Edgefeld got a better church
after her fire, and Honan thus mar
rcwly escaped Two fires since then,
We ought at least to rejoice that all
things can work together for.good!
And we do, and as I'VE lookiforward
to worshipping with that li,tle con
gregalion again tomorrow and
regularly, between trips to the 9th.
er churches and chapels and schools
committed to the charge of US two
with the help Of some splendid
native preachers and teachers aud
Bible women and calporters, we do
so with renewed faith and hope and
love. We can count ON your prayers
at home, too, can't we? For we
want to do the very best work of
our lives now in the strength that
God has given US through that touch
with the homeland and the home
people.
Canton, China. John Lake.
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We handle groceries, of course,
bat the KIND of groceries we
handle and the WAY we handle
them and the way we SERVE
YOU that is what constitutes the
superior service one gets who deals
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