SEVENTEEN years ago a friend of mine, who was a Christian, told me to read the Bible. I at once bought one, and after reading it day and night for a year and two months, decided to believe. Then I sought my friend for advice, and in our conversation I asked, “Is to-morrow [Sunday] the Sabbath?” He replied saying that to-day was the true Sabbath but that to-morrow was the Lord’s resurrection day. I then asked him why he transgressed the Sabbath. As he replied that “altho we transgress the Sabbath we do no sin,” I asked him if he ever read James 2:10 and Matt. 5:19, and whether he thought we did no sin altho we transgressed all the commandments. I told him that I would not keep the resurrection day, and without further conversation I returned home.
There were no Sabbath-keepers in Korea at that time; and so, because of the teaching of a church which violates the fourth commandment, I remained an unbeliever for fourteen years and three months. But when, in March, 1909, an evangelist came to my village teaching the true Sabbath, I at once became a Christian, and am rejoicing in the truth. (Signed) KIM CHYONG SYONG.
A Gate of Forai, Korea, a good illustration of the open doors to the ‘Hermit Kingdom’
