A Young Chinese Girl's Testimony by SAN A. LIOELZ.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 9, 1914

A Young Chinese Girl's Testimony

By SAN A. LIOELZ.

IN the past we had not yet known God. One day a missionary sold some books at our house [in Padang, Sumatra]

afterward he asked us to go to his home. My mother and I went. After that we went every Sabbath afternoon, and after hearing the missionary's teaching we began to obey God. Now we know God, and know, too, that he can hear and help us.

Six months after being baptized and entering the Christian religion, my father died. The Chinese custom is to worship dead people. At this time my brothers and others tried to force us to worship my dead father, but we knew that God had commanded us to worship him only. We love our Lord Jesus, and we want to obey as he commanded, notwithstanding that people make trouble for us; for our hearts are fixed. God helped us to be witnesses for him.

Several days after my father was dead, we went to bury him. Just before we left the house, one person said to us, "Now worship your father; the missionary is not here and will not know." But God helped us to witness rightly for him, and for this we want to thank him very much, because he helped us, and because he has sent a missionary to us, and because we know the "way of salvation." SAN A. LIOELZ.