page_title: Gan Chinese-speaking people
hierarchical_section_title: Gan Chinese-speaking people
caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: millions1898chin Title: The Millions 1898 Year: 1898 (1890s) Authors: China Inland Mission Subjects: Missions Publisher: (Philadelphia) China Inland Mission Contributing Library: Knox - University of Toronto Digitizing Sponsor: Algoma University, Trent University, Lakehead University, Laurentian University, Nipissing University, Ryerson University and University of Toronto Libraries View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: suffered nearly asmuch as was feared. To-day she was outfor the first time to one of the classes, and wehope by next week she may be quite overthe worst, and getting stronger again.Please pray that she may stand firm in Godsstrength, and never go back to the hatefuldrug again. ^Baptisms at Ho-kar. BY MISS L. M. PASMORE. WE have good tidings of Mr. Orr-Ewings visit to the stationson the Kuang-sin River, just before he left China for ashort visit home. There were seventy-nine persons whocame forward for baptism, as well as many more who are hopingsoon to do so; indeed, there is much for which to praise God, whilethe need for prayer and watchfulness is ever the same. or two evangelists also present. There were four women in fromthis city, thirty li off, and one old man of seventy-seven; severalfrom here, and some from the country—in all eighteen were ex-amined and eleven baptized; the remaining seven need to wait alittle longer. One of those who were examined was dear U-Mei, one of the Text Appearing After Image: GROUP l NATIVE CHRISTIANS. KIANG-SI. From a private letter from Miss Pasmore, of Ho keo, from whichwe arc allowed to make some extracts, we get a glimpse of one ofthese occasions: •■ .Mr. Orr-Ewing was here several days, and we had a great num-ber of people for the Sunday services, All day long the place wascrowded with Christian-- and enquirers, and there wire very manyoutsiders to look and listen, and all who could help were kept busytelling the Gospel. Owing to the numbers being so great, we had not asked theenquirers in from the out stations, except from the city Miss Hallgoes to, where some were quite ready for baptism; another out Station where there were also enquirers wishing to come forward. Mr.Orr-Ewing was able to go to on leaving us here. On Monday we were all busy hearing the examinations con-ducted by Mr. Orr-Ewing, and the pastor, with one elder and one young girls of the Christian Endeavour, and there has been specialprayer, in which her own Christian broth Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: The Gan-speaking Chinese or Jiangxi people or Jiangyou people or Kiang-Si people are a subgroup of Han Chinese people. The origin of Gan-speaking people in China are from Jiangxi province in China. Gan-speaking populations are also found in Fujian, southern Anhui and Hubei provinces, and linguistic enclaves are found on Taiwan, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Zhejiang, Hunan, Hainan, Guangdong, Fujian and non-Gan speaking southern and western Jiangxi.
context_section_description: The Gan-speaking Chinese or Jiangxi people or Jiangyou people or Kiang-Si people (old romanized spelling) are a subgroup of Han Chinese people. The origin of Gan-speaking people in China are from Jiangxi province in China. Gan-speaking populations are also found in Fujian, southern Anhui and Hubei provinces, and linguistic enclaves are found on Taiwan, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Zhejiang, Hunan, Hainan, Guangdong, Fujian and non-Gan speaking southern and western Jiangxi.
caption: A group of native Christians, Jiangxi, 1898.
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