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Show \ yy I .positively loathed it! It is ay solemn conviction that no matter how overmastering a passion for it a man may have by this Holy Spirit way, he can certainly be cured. I am myself today His Witness and.'His Proof of this. I bear my unequivocal testimony that it was His might .There is no other way to explain it. 1 have kept still and waited all these days be- , cause I have wanted to be ££# sure of myself and my convictions. I am sure tonight. , In the Third Place^^rpajbe^God, I will never smoke opium again. I will try in all ways to hinder people from acquiring the habit. I wish to be goad friends with this church and these church members and will never forget the grace of this wife shown towards me. I spent my money freely for ooium,now I ought to spend for the church. I know I can do none of these things leaning on myself. I want todo them in Christ's strength. how i t seems to me more beautiful to have one's name written in the Lamb's ;Book of Life, than to have the proudest degree that was ever conferred." Later he confessed that he had had far too much to do with Yamen easels and meant to let Yamens alone in the future. He has a most unique and interesting p e r s o n a l i t y , '/ery short and s l i g h t ( h i s feet hardly reach the floor when he s i t s upon an ordinary bench),with b r i l l i a n t large eyes, a pale face, intensely alert,quick as a flash in speech and gesture, with a voic* which would make a thoroughly respectable outfit for three ordinary^ throats, not repellently loud and harsh,but very resonant and powerful," making one wish that it might be trained. This week he has been as good as his word,constant and devout at aeetings Bible in hand, but the devil has noti* left him untested,as people gollg alona the road were heard to suggest arresting him for his brother1-' opium debts. Some of his old cronies said "Stop a minute and have a chat. Say.iait true that you've given up opium? Got all over i t ! ! How ewer did you do it? What's the treatment?" - PThe church and the teacher-mother prayed and God made me well",. fm noinev I" :Any hope for the rest of us on that road?" :"Yes, God is w i l l i ng .one?" "e a r d t h e t e a C l l e r " 1 0 t h e r i s ***** **9 "J-W11 it work if s h e '/ that M ! 0 - ' 1 ! ^ ! ^ 1 ^ 1 ! ^ , l M t 0 hGi!) y ° U l y a n d b ^ ' 6* c°nrse he feels ha hi. a 0uth is sealed to others until he can, gal his own b r o t h s - chains broken. His elder brother,Chou Ju Hsin hv t*»<u . T A and resourceful *mmn* „ **J asm,by trade a head mason, clever ana re.oarcefu Keeps or kept an opium shop. He owes people for opium and saraphernalia ... strings of cash .about SdJO.gold) Hia wIcJLT owe him So, strings. He came to me l a s t Sundew t , :T ; C t lM He proposed to go out and c o l l P r tM \ °V e r h l s a f f a i ? s . - then rnm. .«* \ l unen come and brle akI o\*f f onCinonl l e rcVt hah+l s «d.*e «ts >•a nd pay his creditorUs lb anddn a OBIU. That seemed to me clearly wror,?. lie had |
