p. 16 | The Power of God's Book

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 7, 1907

The Power of God's Book

In an article on the “Swedish Baptists in China,” which recently appeared in The Baptist Times, the Rev. E. W. Burt, of the Baptist Mission, Shan-tung, gives a striking example of the power of God's Word to lead souls to himself, irrespective of any human teaching.

“I must tell you about some men who came from a distant village in the hills, and it is a pleasure to do so because their conversion was due directly to the sales of Bibles by a colporteur of the British and Foreign Bible Society. Last spring they begged the missionary to visit them, and, busy as he was, he managed to go, though from past experience far from sanguine, and fully expecting that some lawsuit or other trouble was at the bottom of their eagerness. Judge his surprise, when he arrived, to find they had built a chapel and got everything ready. Three years before, they had got possession of Bibles, and, without any human aid, had come to believe in Christ. They had for years been seeking the truth, joining secret sect after secret sect, but finding no satisfaction. One was a schoolmaster (who has since lost his school for becoming a Christian), another kept a shop, and a third was a village elder. In the afternoon these were baptized, and we afterward sat down to the Lord's supper.”