A PERSECUTOR'S END

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 20, 1880

A PERSECUTOR'S END.

The Rev. Eugenio Kincaid states, that among the first converts in Ava were two men who held responsible offices about the palace. Some time after they had been baptized, a neighbor determined to report them to government, and drew up a paper, setting forth that these two men had forsaken the customs and religion of their fathers, were worshipping the foreigners' God, went every Sunday to the teacher's house, etc. He presented the paper to the neighbors of the two disciples, taking their names as witnesses, and saying that he should go and present the accusation on the next day. The two Christians heard of it, and went to Mr. Kincaid in great alarm, to consult as to what they should do. They said if they were accused to the government, the mildest sentence they could expect would be imprisonment for life at hard labor, and perhaps they would be killed. Mr. Kincaid told them that they could not flee from Ava, if they would; that he saw nothing he could do for them, and all that they could do was to trust in God.

He then knelt with them, and besought God to protect them, and deliver them from the power of their enemies. They also prayed, and soon left Mr. K., saying that they felt more calm, and could leave the matter with God. That night the persecutor was attacked with a dreadful disease in the bowels, which so distressed him that he roared like a madman, and his friends, as is too often the case with the heathen, left him to suffer and die alone. The two Christians whom he would have ruined then went and took care of him till he died, two or three days after his attack. The whole affair was well-known in the neighborhood, and from that time not a dog dare move his tongue against the Christians of Ava.