Chinese Diamonds for the King of KingsGoforth, Rosalind
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Chinese Diamonds for the King of Kings
Goforth, Rosalind
Missions -- China
"That’s certain," was the answer. "We were just considering as we came
up whether we would not _just bury him as he is_, for neither of us
cares to stand for forty _li_ more (14 miles) what we have stood those
last forty _li_."
The doctor knew well it meant for him many months of hard fighting with
a most loathsome disease, with only a bare chance of success, yet in the
spirit of his Master he did not hesitate but said, "Give him to me. If
he can be saved, I’ll save him. If he dies, he will have proper
burial." After consulting together for a few moments the men turned to
the doctor and said, "You can have him." So the man was carried into
the hospital.
The following day, at the missionaries’ noon prayer-meeting much
interest was roused as the doctor told of his strange leading the day
before and of the result. Earnest prayer rose for Lu Yung Kwan, the
sick man, whose past history made his case seem the more hopeless. He
had been a professional juggler (about as low in the scale as one could
well get), and had lived a very depraved life.
The history of the year that followed could better be told by the doctor
or his colleague who worked, rather fought for the man’s salvation, both
soul and body. But the day came when he went from the Mission Hospital
healed in body and a professed follower of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Twice in the months that followed Lu Yung Kwan fell; the second time he
went back to his old life so deep and so long his Mission friends almost
despaired of him. But God had mercy on him, and he rose as the future
proved, "_a new creation_" in Christ Jesus.
Barely has there been a more striking illustration of Paul’s words, "Put
off the old man with his deeds," than Lu Yung Kwan’s after life. He
opened a small bakery and food shop where many passed to and fro with
their barrows of coal, the coal pits being in the region. He was the
only Christian in the region. On his counter was always a place for
Christian books and tracts; and he was ever on the alert to take
advantage of the curiosity and interest these awakened, and to bear
witness to what the Lord had done for him.
From the first opening of his business he determined to obey the
injunction of Malachi 3:10,—"Bring ye the whole tithe ... and prove me
now ... saith Jehovah of Hosts, if I will not open you the windows of
heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough
to receive it." He not only gave a tithe of all he made to the Lord,
but put aside for Him one cash in every hundred, "Just to bless the
rest."
He married a bright Christian girl, who proved herself a true helpmeet
to him. Four children came to bless their home; one girl whom they
named Glory, and three boys, Paul, Luke and Joseph.
One day when visiting near their home, the writer asked the second boy,
whom she met on the street, his name. He answered, "My name is the
Gospel according to Luke!"
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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