The Testimony of Converts from Heathenism
In one of the recent meetings in our Mandarin training school in Shanghai, several very interesting testimonies were borne by Chinese young men, telling how the gospel had won them from the worship of idols to the blessedness of faith and hope in Christ. THE DEVIL HIS RIGHT-HAND HELPER
Brother Swen Yu Tang said: “In former days, the devil was my right-hand helper. I was in the army in the province of Anhwei, and later obtained a captaincy. Several years before this last revolution, there was a revolution started in the Anhwei army. But it did not accomplish its purpose, and the leaders717had to flee; so I fled to Peking with one of the leaders in that insurrection. Later I had to flee to Manchuria; and in the course of time, I came back home. It was still my purpose to enter the army again.” “When I reached home, I met our evangelists Wu and Du, who exhorted me to believe the gospel. The first meeting I attended, I heard the evangelist Du preach on the second of Daniel. He talked about an image, and about a whole lot of countries; and although I did not understand much that he said, yet the fact that he talked about those countries so much made an impression on me. “Since the preacher mentioned many countries that I had never heard of, it stirred up a desire on my part to know what those countries were; so I continued to go to the Seventh-day Adventist chapel. From attending meetings there, I learned to believe the gospel, and accepted this truth. It is the only Christian religion I have ever known.” CAPTIVATED THROUGH PERSONAL WORK
Brother Dung Siu Seng said: “My conversion is the result of personal work,—the work of Brother Swen Yu Tang. I was a business man in Ying Shang Hsien, an ordinary heathen; and before he met me, I was running wild, and didn’t have any settled aim or purpose in life. “Then I met Mr. Swen, and he exhorted me to believe the gospel. He said: ‘You believe the gospel, and then we both will be traveling the same road. This is a good road that we are traveling.’ “From this one statement of Brother Swen, I was led to attend the chapel. There I heard the evangelist Han preach; and the very first sermon that I ever heard, Brother Han preached about the various false gods that the Chinese worship, and showed up their falsity. “From that time, I knew the error of worshiping idols, and knew there was only one true God that we should worship. Now I am thankful for this opportunity to come here to school, and learn more about the worship of this true God.”