AN OLD colporteur for the Bible society was trying to sell portions of the Scriptures in Kai-fung Fu, China, years ago. That city was full of bitter enemies of the Bible and the missionaries. Suddenly some bad men began to attack the colporteur and scattered what they called his “foreign devils” books to the winds.
Some of the gospels were picked up by a man named Chu. He began reading them and became deeply interested. He learned something of the truth in them, but more than twelve years passed away before he learned the way of salvation more clearly and fully.
One day while he was on a joey he met a missionary and tether they read the Scriptures regularly. When Chu went back to his home he got acquainted with another native man who also had heard the gospel in another part of the country. The two began to meet and read the Word together. Then they started to worship the Lord in Chu’s house. They invited the neighbors in to hear the gospel every Sunday. At the end of two years there was a little group of Christians meeting in a city which the missionary regarded as nearly hopeless for the undertaking of a Christian mission. A small beginning of a brave Chinaman led to the larger and growing work of grace in that very stronghold of Satan.
ML-10/21/1973