p. 14 | FREDERICK LEE by Frederick Lee

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Aug 26, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 33.

FREDERICK LEE

By Frederick Lee

From Hankow (April 7)

WE are thankful for the openings that God is making for us in this province. In one place, where one of our evangelists has visited, a company gathers from scores of miles around, to keep the Sabbath. They rent their own chapel, and supply their own benches. They are very anxious that we send them help to study the truth. In another place, where we have been working but nine months, we have an earnest company. Every Sabbath we have seventy or eighty present, including school children. We have opened a school, which is self-supporting, with forty-two pupils enrolled. We are very thankful for this little school; for while winning the hearts of the children, we hope to lead their fathers and mothers to the truth. The Sabbath-school is run on modern plans, with officers, teachers, etc.

We have many interesting cases in this place. One thick-set, clumsy-looking fellow has a very interesting story. Many years ago he desired to be able to go to heaven. He knew nothing of the gospel, so he did the best he knew, spending his money in building a temple. There he fasted and chanted prayers before the idols, that he might be made "pure and refined," but he says he got no peace, and gave it up. His temple is still standing, and he showed it to an evangelist. After giving up this temple, he entered on a life of wickedness, and at last became a detective, in which business he had many narrow escapes. God saved him for the gospel. Just before our meetings at Hsiao Tau last fall, this man dreamed that he would have only two opportunities to repent. The next night, he came to our meeting, and was converted. He has given up his bad habits, and is very happy in the light of present truth. In such a way can the Lord lead a poor heathen to find the gospel.