p. 9 | Under Evil Influences by Mrs. Eva Allum

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 3, 1910

Under Evil Influences

By Mrs. Eva Allum

ALMOST all Chinese women believe in Spiritualism, and they will tell how the spirits come and touch them, and converse with them.

One of our Bible women recently told us how the spirits tried to trouble her, but she began to sing, in a loud voice, “Revive Us Again,” and the spirits left her. She told us that at one time she had been a Spiritualist medium. Chinese women think that evil spirits can do much harm, and that they are responsible for most of the sickness of themselves and children. I have seen women stab their children with a needle till the blood flowed, in order to frighten out the evil spirit. It is not lack of affection, but ignorance. We have a faithful old woman with us who has been an earnest Seventh-day Adventist for over two years, but who, years ago, killed one of her children in this way.

Sometimes the men at our mission are quite a numerous company before a woman can be induced to come, and she, practically always, is one whose husband is a Christian, and who at home for some time past has already knelt at the family altar. Once the ice is broken, it is not difficult for others to follow.

Mrs. EVA ALLUM.

Honan.