An Evangelist’s Experience by A. C. Selmon, M. D.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 26, 1908

An Evangelist’s Experience

By A. C. Selmon, M. D.

The evangelist Wun made a trip to one of the railroad towns about sixty miles from the mission station, taking with him a supply of Sabbath calendars and portions of the Gospels. The railroad towns have a bad reputation throughout the country. The Chinese are very apt in copying the vices of the railroad and business men. The enemy is making the most of his agencies; for not only the large towns, but all through the country the villages and small places are being placarded with cigarette advertisements.

Not only cigarettes but foreign liquor as well finds a ready sale. Practically every inn in the railroad towns is an opium-joint.

It was to such a town as this that the evangelist went to give the gospel message. He first began preaching in a place near the railroad station; but a crowd of soldiers came up to him, and, with much cursing and threatening, ordered him to leave. Leaving the station and going into the city, he began preaching on one of the principal streets, but no one stopped to listen. Finally he became discouraged, but, as he sat down and asked the Lord to help him, the words of John the Baptist came into his mind, ‘Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.’ Standing up, he began to cry out, ‘Moh rih chin liao, ni men ing tang whei kai’ (Repent; for at least the end of the world is near). It is needless to say that he soon had a large crowd around him to hear what he had to say.

A COMPANY OF MISSIONARIES IN CONFERENCE AT SHANGHAI

NATIVE CHRISTIAN WOMEN ATTENDING A CONFERENCE

In a short time he sold all the calendars and Gospel portions that he had on hand.

A. C. SELMON, M. D.