An Active Family by Frederick Lee

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 31, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, Nos. 43, 44.

An Active Family

By Frederick Lee

IN Anhwei we are cheered by many evidences of the working power of God to save. Here, for instance, is a family just out from heathenism. The son is in our boys' training school, the daughter is in our girls' school, and the father and mother are working for these blessed advent truths among their neighbors.

The Chinese expression, reh hsin ("hot heart"), which is their term for "earnestness," can truly be applied to them. Already the father has influenced a number of his friends, all of whom are heathen, and they are studying with much interest.

This big man, who was once an officer in the Chinese army, one Sabbath began crying like a child as we were in the meeting. When asked why he wept, he said it was because his heathen father and mother, who were dead, did not have the opportunity to hear this truth. This shows the working of the Spirit of God on a man's heart, giving him a burden for the souls of others. Wherever he goes he can not keep still. He must tell all how much better it is to worship a loving God than a mud idol or a dead ancestor.

FREDERICK LEE.

Province of Anhwei.