Rev. Asa Mahan, D.D.

Chapter 17

China.

A letter just received by a friend of ours, T. D. Marshall, Esq., from Dr. Berdut, of Ningpo, China, contains the following very interesting and important intelligence:

"From Pekin and Tien-tsin we are receiving the most cheering accounts: One bunched and eleven persons were baptized near Pekin only a few weeks ago, with the report that there were 1,500 more inquirers. At Lao-ting (near Tientsin) we have just received news of a Pentecostal blessing, 300 being received into the Church. This is the some place where, ten years ago, they had a remarkable work of God. Very remarkable about it all is the fact that the foreign Missionaries had very little to do with the work directly, and that God blessed the Native agency. A lesson for us all, no doubt."

A Religious Movement.