"Madame Butterfly" at the Russian Club 4s mo prison for the word of God." It Tim. 2: 9. friend, li points out that in pee the successful soldier is athlete is restricted by religious service. For Jesus was death. Paul, Christ's ut he was a willing lid not bind the 3 is morning. hospitals, shell universities, shoot but you cannot of God.
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ing like fist carica by Cromwell's disposed of oad and Testa-po 'L Bible, some: Tronsides, which we introduced to enough to supply them..To keep colporteurs provided with Gospel portions we have- printing in such distant towns as Hankow, Chungking, Chengtu and Sian. There' is a charming romance in the publishing of Gospels in Sian, In the Tang dynasty, 1, years ago, near to Sian, Nestorian Christians carved their Christian message on stone tablets, and last year, as a result of the present conflict, after an interval of thirteen centuries, Scriptures were printed in that ancient capital. Has the Bible a message for such a time as this? Surely, the facts I have recounted give the answer. There is no prison for the word of God. You can imprison the preacher—you cannot bind his message.
I waited tò Know Last year before the fall of Hankow I visited that city to study how we could meet the new conditions developing from the immense number of' refugees who were fleeing to in- the land towns. Calling on a Chinese business friend it was most interesting to see on his desk a copy of the Bible in Chinese and to learn that it was his daily custom, before commencing business, to read a passage from his Bible. In addition to his Chinese Bible he had a copy in English and this he could read readily. I discovered tao that he had a copy of the Greek New Testament and this he understood quite well When I asked him why he had learnt Greek his -answer humbled me. "I wanted to know," he said, "what exactly our Lord did teach." I found further that he had in his office a copy of the Old Testament in Hebrew and that he had been studying Hebrew for five years so that he might the better understand the old Testament, Now, there, in that inland. town was a Chinese business man who was so interested in the sacred Book that he could read it in four languages. Isn't that a revealing sidelight on what the Bible means to at least one Chinese? Two months ago I had a letter from this man who at present is staying in Shanghai. Let me read it to you:
"Dear Mr. Hudspeth, I have much pleasure in enclosing herewith a cheque for $2000 towards increased cost of printing and greatly needed in the interior." transporting the Scriptures which are I say again—there is no prison for the word of God—the message cannot be fettered.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.