JESUS RIGHT THERE

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 27, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 34.

JESUS RIGHT THERE.

A young Chinese woman, who recently became a Christian, was threatened, scolded, and persecuted in many ways by her family and friends. Finally her brother offered her anything he had or could get for her if she would give up the “Jesus doctrine.” She said: “You ask of me the only precious things I have, more precious than anything you can give me. I can not give them up for fields or jewels. My Bible says, ‘What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?’”

She came back to the Christian school, where she had gained her “precious things,” and her heathen mother was heard to say: “It is no use to talk any more to that daughter of mine. She seems to think there is something very good in that foreign religion.”

And the young woman herself said: “I love the Lord Jesus as I never did before. All the time those people were coaxing and scolding and swearing at me, I forgot that I was just one lone woman against them all. It seemed as if Jesus was right beside me, answering and fighting for me. I kept remembering his words, ‘Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.’”

Is there not danger that we, too willing to be “carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease,” may lose the blessedness of the eighth beatitude, and fail to possess fully the kingdom of heaven?—Christian Advocate.