"The work of the future is to be the work of prayer!"
— John Sung
Source: John Sung's last message to the Church (1944), as recorded in Leslie T. Lyall, John Sung (China Inland Mission), ch. 23
co-workers, preaching, faith, prayer, life, power, kneeling
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"Men will have gods to adore and some form of worship, and however strong this craving, it cannot be met by the unassisted intellect. There must be the revelation of the true God in His Son Jesus Christ, before the desire men feel to know and adore the Divine can be satisfied."
— Joseph Edkins
Source: Religion in China (1878), pp. 115–116
Science, Creation, Universe, Truth, Bible, Redemption, Grace
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"Born in Fuzhou, Leland Wang (Wang Zai) was led to Christ by his wife in 1920. Obedient to the Bible and sensing a call to ministry, he left his Navy career as a gunboat officer in 1921, rented a hall in Fuzhou and began ringing a handbell to draw a crowd. In 1928 he formed the Chinese Foreign Missionary Union to evangelize the scattered Chinese of the South Seas; at one time it had twenty-six Chinese workers in thirteen mission stations and countries, the first mission board of its kind. He lived by a self-imposed rule: "No Bible, no breakfast.""
— Hoover Wong, Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity
Source: BDCC, "Wang Zai" (reproduced from Evangelical Dictionary of World Missions)
Need, dispatch, abundant, time, responsible
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"An evangelist who has been filled with the Holy Spirit has power. A church full of the Holy Spirit also has power. May the Lord endue our churches with the Holy Spirit that these cold, weak, powerless churches may be able to witness for the Lord, to shine, to lead men to Christ, and to glorify God."
— Andrew Gih
Source: Andrew Gih, Twice Born—and Then? (ed. J. Edwin Orr; London: Marshall, Morgan & Scott), Part II, "Fullness of the Holy Spirit—God's Remedy for a Sick Church," pp. 73–74
Church, danger, persecution, internal, spirituality, indifference, world, testimony, cross, holiness
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"The Italian Jesuit Giulio Aleni (1582-1649) was sent to China in 1610 and, while waiting at Macau to enter the country, taught mathematics there. Adopting the dress and manners of the Chinese scholar class, he became the first Christian missionary in Jiangxi and built several churches in Fujian. His works in Chinese include the world atlas Zhifang Waiji and a life of Christ drawn from the four Gospels (Peking, 1635-1637, 8 volumes). His convert Li Jiubiao recorded the answers of Aleni and his fellow Jesuit Andrius Rudamina to the questions of their parishioners and compiled them into the journal Kouduo Richao. He died at Yanping, Fujian, in 1649."
— Wikipedia
Source: Wikipedia, "Giulio Aleni" (from the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913)
Suffering, disease, God, healing, soul, pride, cross
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"We have some labors and sorrows to bear, but they are everywhere; besides we must gain heaven by the sweat of our brow. If we should have to suffer martyrdom, it would be a great grace for the good God to bestow upon us. It is a thing to desire, not to fear; so, my dear parents, have no other solicitude for me than to pray for my salvation and that I may contribute to the salvation of others."
— Jean-Gabriel Perboyre
Source: Letter of Jean-Gabriel Perboyre to his father, China, August 22, 1837, in Life of Blessed John Gabriel Perboyre (trans. from the French; Baltimore: John Murphy & Co., 1894), pp. 191–192
Christ, Breath, God, China, Praise
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