What One Christian Endured

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 29, 1914

What One Christian Endured

Dr. Jones tells the story of a Korean searcher after truth who came from a distance, spent three days and nights conferring with him about Christ, and was finally baptized. On reaching home, he confessed his new faith without reserve. The clan of which he was the head listened to his story with intense indignation. In view of this opposition, he offered to resign his position and property to any one they should elect in his stead; but as he was the only heir and in the necessary line of ancestor worship, this was rejected. There was more discussion and rising anger, until one of the most bitter struck him in the face. At this the fury of the clan broke loose upon him. He was beaten to the ground, stamped upon, and left terribly injured.

When Dr. Jones heard of it, he hurried to his relief and found him suffering from internal hemorrhages. Being asked about his experience, the sick man said: "This is the way my Lord went. I am glad he has honored me by allowing me to follow him." When told by the doctors that he might not live long, he exclaimed, "Then what is left of my life shall be given my Lord!" He got a cartful of books, returned to the district where he had been so bitterly handled, and spent three years in colportage work. At the end of that time he was taken with a sudden hemorrhage and fell asleep in Jesus. Eleven churches had been founded by him in the brief ministry of three years.—Missionary Review