How a Student Overcame Sin

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

How a Student Overcame Sin

A YOUNG university student in Japan, who had been a leader in his classes, near the end of his course gave way to temptation. After some time, eager to regain his self-respect and his lost position, he sought the priest of a famous Buddhist temple. To him he told his troubles and his longings. The priest said, “I can help you. If you will kneel with your thumbs together before the Buddha here, and remain absolutely motionless for three hours, you will be given strength to resist temptation.” The seeker obeyed. In spite of the fact that the mosquitoes annoyed him constantly, he knelt as nearly motionless as possible for the required time. Then he passed out of the temple—to fall before his temptation, as before. For two years he groped for help, but in vain, until he heard of Christ, who came into the world that the world through him might be saved. In Christ’s strength he was enabled to conquer temptation. To-day he is secretary of the Osaka Young Men’s Christian Association.—Christian Herald.