of the Meeting in Sung Hsiu Yang
newcomers. Altogether, there are more than one hundred people in the meetings. Every Lord's Day morning there is an edification meeting. In the afternoon, they break bread to remember the Lord. Six brothers, Wang Yeou Kao, Wang T'ien Kuan, Wang Hsing Ch'ing, Wang Hsu Yuan, Wang Shou Tiao, and Wang Mu Ch'uan, bear the responsibility for the messages and the affairs of the meeting. There is also a brother named Wang Chu Yeou who used to be a teacher in the China Inland Mission but left the denomination in March of this year. Sometimes he also helps to preach a message in this locality if he is not traveling. On the surface, this meeting looks as if all the members obey the Lord and meet in the Lord's name. The number of those who have been inwardly revived, however, is very small. As for the rest, some are young in life, and it is difficult to say whether or not some have life, because they are just obeying. Brothers and sisters, please pray for this matter. I really hope that the Lord would bless them so that the entire congregation could be revived.
4. The Beginning and Condition of the Meeting in Sung Hsiu Yang This locality is about ten miles from Nan Hsi. A few of them used to come to Nan Hsi for the meetings. With the exception of a few brothers who are clearly saved, it is difficult to tell whether or not the others are brothers. This locality did not need to establish a separate meeting. Before they saw the will of God clearly, and before God raised up some responsible ones, they should definitely not have established a separate meeting. However, there were some who did not want to walk such a long way; they wanted a separate meeting. Others mistakenly heard the brothers say, "Since God is everywhere, people can worship Him anywhere. We do not need to meet together and be bound by geography. The Lord also told the Samaritan woman that she did not have to worship on the mountain or in Jerusalem." These ones wanted to separate also. Some people saw that other localities had separated, so they wanted to do it. Although the brothers exhorted them to do it slowly, they could not wait patiently. So they started a separate meeting in 1929. When they first separated, there were more than ten brothers and sisters. Later, they gradually cooled off. Although the brothers from other localities go there on the Lord's Day to help them, it has been very hard to keep it going. Fortunately, some of the brothers also went to the conference in Lien T'ou and passed through some dealing. The condition of the meeting now is very