p. 13 | A LATTER-DAY MARTYR

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 15, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 20.

A LATTER-DAY MARTYR.

D. H. CLARE, of Waverly, N.Y., recently received a letter from a friend across the sea, in which the following pathetic incident is related:—

“Never shall I forget the impression made by a wonderful prayer offered by a Chinaman at a meeting in Shanghai just before I left for Japan. He was a member of a native church near Tien-Tsin, and was going back there with every expectation of death at the hands of the Boxers. He prayed, ‘O Lord, we rejoice in persecution, as Thou hast taught us; and as Thou knowest it is harder to live a martyr life than to die a martyr death, grant us grace to offer this smaller service acceptably when Thou shalt call upon us. Should any, like Peter, deny Thee in the hour of trial, O Lord, wilt Thou turn and look upon him as Thou didst upon Peter, and by that look call him into the life of witnessing with power, to which Thy disciples of old were called.’ This man, with sixty others of his church, has since offered that ‘smaller service.’”