of the Meeting in Hsiu Hsi
Brother B said, "The money for the offering should be put into the box. It should not be designated. The workers should also live by faith in Jehovah, and the brothers should be happy to give to God for the workers' use." It is difficult to describe the details of all the debates. Brother Chen Ch'ing Fa was living among them at the time, and they received much help from him. However, a small number of them had a hard attitude! They could not enter into the truth. Soon afterward, Brother Chen left that locality to return to his native place. The denominational leaders sent another worker to them to continue working. Although the brothers still received him as before, they were completely different in the matter of receiving the truth. So they always had debates with him. Through these debates, many brothers who had blindly followed listened quietly and woke up to the error of denominations. They obeyed the Lord then. When the teacher of the China Inland Mission could no longer do anything, he left. At that point nearly everyone met in the Lord's name. There was still one family of three, a father and two sons, who were for preserving the denominations. Thank the Lord, his two sons have obeyed now, and only the father will not come to the meetings. The meetings are in the house of Brother Ts'ai Wei Ts'ung, who faithfully loves the Lord. He and his brother are happy to offer their home for the Lord's use. There are twenty-two brothers and sisters in the table meetings. There are sixteen people who come to hear the messages but do not take the table yet. Brothers Ts'ai Wei Ts'ung, Ts'ai T'ien Cheng, and Ts'ai Tze Chu bear the responsibility for the messages and the affairs of the meetings. 8. The Beginning and Experience of the Meeting in Hsiu Hsi This locality originally belonged to the China Inland Mission. There were more sisters than brothers in the meetings. It is very difficult to say how this locality left the denominations. Probably it began when the Lord led one brother, Chiu Chi Po, to a conference in Shanghai in 1930 and revived him there. Then Brothers Mao Ch'ing Shih, Lai Chi Ho, Chen Ch'ing Fa, and Ts'ai Ch'i did some edification among them. They left the denomination in 1931, but the denomination did not want to let them go. It still sent a worker there. The brothers continued to receive them as they had in the past, but their meetings were no longer according to the denominational way. They were according to the principles in 1 Corinthians 14. Later, the brothers discussed firing the denominational teacher, but he found out about it and stopped coming. In this way they broke their relationship with the denomination. Now the church meets in Brother Chiu's house which he has