On the Slopes of Nanshan

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 9, 1913

On the Slopes of Nanshan

“IN the thick of the terrible battle of Nanshan, just north of Port Arthur, two Japanese soldiers were wounded at the same moment. One of them, a corporal, crept to his comrade, and tried to bind up his wound. The man said to him, ‘Don’t trouble about me, look out for your own wound; I have believed in Jesus Christ.’ Then the corporal recited to the desperately wounded man, ‘Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me.’ ‘Yes,’ responded the other, ‘I have been laid hold of by Jesus Christ.’ At that moment a second bullet struck the speaker, and he died. The corporal lived to reach the hospital, and to tell the Christian nurse of this strange communion of souls on the battle-field. Some of the money given by Christians in the West, in self-denial and with prayer, carried the gospel to those two pagan Japanese, and so yielded forth a hundredfold on the bloody slopes of Nanshan.”