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everything, and live and work in His strength continually. Our Biola Evangelistic Band No. 2 is now at work in the city of Tsingchow in southwestern Hunan, and in the ex tensive unevangelized district about this city. For years the missionaries of Tsingchow have been begging us to send a band to them. Now Mr. Tien and his band of evangelists are actually there, and enthusiastic and grateful reports are coming to us telling of God’s bless ing on the work. Breaking Error’s Chains One day Mr. Chen Sin-Fu, one o£ our evangelists, entered a Buddhist temple that was situated in the section as signed to him for that day’s work. In that temple he met an attractive young priest about thirty-three years of age, whose name was Yang Chia-Chu. I write “ was” for after conversion Mr. Yang changed his name to Yang-Tsung- Tao, the name by which he is now known. It is a common custom in China, in fact a universal custom, to change the given name to correspond with some important change in circum stances. Many of you already know that in China the first word of a name is the family name, and the last two words the given namie, so this priest’s family name is Yang, but more about this later. Mr. Chen had begun his day by com mitting himself wholly to God, and by seeking His guidance for his every step during the day, and so he went into that little temple with the definite conviction that the Holy Spirit was leading him there, and that He had some special work in that temple for him to do. He was greatly attracted to the priest Yang.
“I WILL SHEW THEE GREAT THINGS”
BUDDHIST priest converted and transformed! A Buddhist priest, who had erected two temples, in one of which he
lived and carried on his heathen wor ship while his mother and three broth ers did the same in the other one, saved by the power of the living God! A Buddhist priest, who for nineteen years had kept his vegetarian vows, abstain ing from all flesh foods, in the vain hope of accumulating merit, and devot ing his entire time to chanting prayers and attending to other religious ob servances! A Buddhist priest who had become spiritually deaf and dumb and blind like the idols he worshipped, this priest has been Ipd to a deep sense of sin, to a most sincere repentance, and to a triumphant faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, saved in answer to prayer cou pled with faithful witnessing in obedi ence to our Master’s command. Prayer, a Dependable Weapon It is a wonderful and blessed story, demonstrating what a practical and de pendable weapon prayer is, and also showing how the Holy Spirit uses God’s Word to lead men to repentance and to a saving knowledge of the truth. Over and over we should ask ourselves, Has prayer the place in my life that God really means it to have? Do I day by day definitely turn with confidence to God and so give Him the longed for opportunity to manifest His power in and through me? What a different thing life is when we understand God so thoroughly, and trust Him so fully that we just go to Him confidently about
THE WORLD IS THE FIELD!
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