Other city improvements are being. planned, one of them being to asphalt the main roads. The present macadamized surface is good for a time and dries quickly after rain, but it soon gets uneven and the dust spring and winter is trying. The problem of a municipal water supply stil unsolved. The water in. the wells and obtainable by artesian bores isnot sufflelent for the growing population and to make a reservoir In the Southern Mountains and bring it in by pipes would be enormously expensive, On May 27, Mr. Wang Ming-tan, of Peiping, arrived by alr from Lanchow to take a week's special preaching services. The largest church the city was packed night after night to hear him, He is a remarkable preacher and gifted with amaz~ Ing energy. Speaking very rapidly, with many illustrations and great dramatic power, he brought to light the sins of the people and they hung on every word. Direct and uncom-_ promising, with a great knowledge, Of the Bible, he declared the truth of the Gospel, and many were deeply' moved. It is a great thing that such witnesses, men of a prophetic gift, are being raised up in China to-day.
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