Wang Mingdao's autobiography at fifty (1950): childhood, conversion, years alone with the Bible in Beijing, the founding of the Christian Tabernacle, and his refusal to join the Japanese-sponsored church union during the war. Soon after, he spent over twenty years in prison.
Compiled from the forty-odd surviving diaries of John Sung (1901–1944), China's great revivalist, together with his two dictated memoirs — My Testimony (1901–1931, recorded by Wang Minxue, 1933) and Looking Back on the Work (1931–1938, recorded by Zheng Suilan) — and his letters and hymns. Sung himself proposed the title in his diary in 1932. An intimate record of his inner life, through to his final night in 1944.