Daily Devotion

Huang Naishang (Wong Nai Siong, 1844–1924), of Minqing, Fujian, was baptized in the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1866. He later helped the missionaries translate the Bible and from 1874 was the key helper on their Chinese paper Zion's Messenger, where he wrote for smallpox vaccination and against foot-binding. In 1896 he used his own funds to launch Fubao, the first newspaper started by a Chinese in Fujian, which closed after a year for lack of money. He held his faith to the end: on his deathbed he asked his wife to hold up a picture of Christ and lay it on his chest, and he died on 22 September 1924.