Kim’s Conversion

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 5, 1910

Kim’s Conversion

DURING one of our classes I asked each member to tell how he found Christ. Kim stood up and said: “My story is a common one, but I’ll tell it. My wife and I made it a rule to worship every spirit we knew. So we had our home and yard full of shrines to the Spirit of the Mountain, the Spirit of the Back-yard, the Spirit of the Kitchen, the Spirit of the House-site, and all the others. Our rooms were so full of shrines that I feared to enter at night to sleep lest I should bump my head against a shrine, offend the spirit, and bring catastrophe on our family. “Then I noticed that the Christians had no such fear of the spirits and paid them no such attention, and still prospered, and I wished that some one would give me the secret of this liberty. Some of the Yon Mot Kol men invited me to the church. I attended for several weeks. Finally I said to one of the deacons: ‘My wife and I are afraid to touch the spirit shrines in our house, but you have no fear of them, and we have concluded that if you will come and clear them all out, we will let you do it, for we want to trust and serve Christ now.’ They came and gathered all the shrines together, put them in the fireplace and burned them up. That night I dreamed that I saw Satan go over the back wall of our yard, and since then we have had no more fear. When we had sickness and our mother wanted to call in the sorcerers, we said: ‘No, Christ has more power than the demons; we shall trust him. Whatever he gives is good.’”

As I sat in Kim’s clean house in a heathen village, and saw how carefully his children are being brought up, how pure his home life is, I wondered at the power that could plant such a lighthouse in that sea of dense darkness.—The Korean Mission Field.