Made Kindling of Goddess
By A. C. Selmon, M. D.
ONE of the men who are now attending our meetings regularly was formerly a police captain. During the revolution, he was shot, but not seriously injured. As a result of this, he decided that life was a very uncertain affair, and so he began attending some religious meetings that were conducted in a near-by mission chapel. But he was not convinced of the reality of the gospel, and so continued to worship the idols of his forefathers. One day, he chanced to pass our chapel door. Brother Hwang was standing at the door, and engaged him in conversation. Following this, the man came regularly to our gospel meetings. He said there was a certainty about the things he now heard, that convinced him of the reality of Christianity. He soon decided to destroy the idols that were in his home, but to this his wife most strenuously objected. One day, when she had gone out to visit a neighbor, he seized a hatchet, and made kindling wood of the goddess of mercy, and of all his ancestral tablets as well. I now have in my possession some of the broken fragments of his former idols. This incident is a striking evidence of the power of God's living gospel message. It meets the needs of the pagan of to-day, and leads him to destroy his idols, just as the message that Paul preached led the Ephesian sorcerers to burn their books of sorcery. He has found something far superior and truly satisfying.