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“THREE SCORE YEARS AND TEN” MISSIONARY WORK IN CHINA
Amy Moore
REVIVAL BLESSING
It seemed to all begin about the same time as the blessing among the University students in February
when Percy was aware of it in his meetings with them in Chenggu and Jack Beck and Paul Contento
even more so in Gu Luba. Then after the meeting of fellow workers together in Chenggu, when Mr
Huo from North Shaanxi brought the Bible messages with much power, he went on to the Church
Conference in Xixiang. Jack and Myrie wrote of much blessing there too, with many of the young
people turning to the Lord. Most of them were High School young people and they were just bubbling
over with joy even though some of the older people tried to tell them it was just ‘Conference
enthusiasm’ and they would get over it! Some of them were preparing themselves to go to Bible
School and we could only rejoice at this new move of the Spirit of God in our young people, and pray
that God would do even greater things right through our Shaanxi churches.
I wrote to some of our missionaries who were home on furlough and told them that Bertha had been to
visit a little group of new believers at Cao Yutang, a small place about 15 li from Hanzhong. They had
a very good time with forty or more at every weekday meeting and over sixty on Sundays. Bertha said
the funny part was that the work there was started by a madman! I said, “In spite of that, the Word of
God is a living Seed and it has taken good root and is bearing fruit. What a wonderful subject for your
deputation meetings, “The Church Begun by a Madman”!”
With the end of the War and refugees wanting to return home, it was inevitable that Pastor Niu who
had been such a blessing since he had come among us from Anhui
and acted as our Pastor ever since, should want to return to his own
work. We were going to miss him and Mrs. Niu and the church was
already beginning to look for a new Pastor for the Hanzhong church.
At the fellow workers’ meetings, it was felt that Wu Shangwen from
Xixiang should be invited. They sent him an official invitation offering
him the equivalent of 16 dou of rice per month. That was quite a The character dou
step forward for South Shaanxi. When he had returned from his time
in the Shaanxi Bible School years before after Percy and I had sent
him to train there, he had
Wu Shang returned on fire for the Lord originally
Wen, the and sure he was to be in full meant a sometimes
“goat boy” at time service for Him, but covered round one-footed
Xixiang, who vessel type. In daily life
was sent to then he got into business the dou was used to serve
Bible College and was doing well, so we condiments such as
by the Moores wondered whether he would pickles and meats
and later want to pull up his roots The Chinese character
became the again and go into full time Dou is a pictograph whose
Pastor. Christian service. shape comes from the
bronze vessel Dou, in later
Pastor Niu was elderly with his two children, Jin Hua and Jin Ding Chinese meaning "bean"
both in one of the refugee universities near us. Pastor Niu was also or "pea". Westerners
a university graduate, so he was very acceptable to the numbers of know it in the first syllable
educated people who came to our church services, and yet he had a of “dofu” (or “tofu” - bean
curd) As a
simple way of explaining the Gospel which was not hard for the Chinese traditional unit of
simple country people to understand. He was so humble that he volume the dou equals 10
really lived the Gospel in front of their eyes. He had been a great litres.
help to me when Percy was away from home so much. I often had
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Amy Moore
REVIVAL BLESSING
It seemed to all begin about the same time as the blessing among the University students in February
when Percy was aware of it in his meetings with them in Chenggu and Jack Beck and Paul Contento
even more so in Gu Luba. Then after the meeting of fellow workers together in Chenggu, when Mr
Huo from North Shaanxi brought the Bible messages with much power, he went on to the Church
Conference in Xixiang. Jack and Myrie wrote of much blessing there too, with many of the young
people turning to the Lord. Most of them were High School young people and they were just bubbling
over with joy even though some of the older people tried to tell them it was just ‘Conference
enthusiasm’ and they would get over it! Some of them were preparing themselves to go to Bible
School and we could only rejoice at this new move of the Spirit of God in our young people, and pray
that God would do even greater things right through our Shaanxi churches.
I wrote to some of our missionaries who were home on furlough and told them that Bertha had been to
visit a little group of new believers at Cao Yutang, a small place about 15 li from Hanzhong. They had
a very good time with forty or more at every weekday meeting and over sixty on Sundays. Bertha said
the funny part was that the work there was started by a madman! I said, “In spite of that, the Word of
God is a living Seed and it has taken good root and is bearing fruit. What a wonderful subject for your
deputation meetings, “The Church Begun by a Madman”!”
With the end of the War and refugees wanting to return home, it was inevitable that Pastor Niu who
had been such a blessing since he had come among us from Anhui
and acted as our Pastor ever since, should want to return to his own
work. We were going to miss him and Mrs. Niu and the church was
already beginning to look for a new Pastor for the Hanzhong church.
At the fellow workers’ meetings, it was felt that Wu Shangwen from
Xixiang should be invited. They sent him an official invitation offering
him the equivalent of 16 dou of rice per month. That was quite a The character dou
step forward for South Shaanxi. When he had returned from his time
in the Shaanxi Bible School years before after Percy and I had sent
him to train there, he had
Wu Shang returned on fire for the Lord originally
Wen, the and sure he was to be in full meant a sometimes
“goat boy” at time service for Him, but covered round one-footed
Xixiang, who vessel type. In daily life
was sent to then he got into business the dou was used to serve
Bible College and was doing well, so we condiments such as
by the Moores wondered whether he would pickles and meats
and later want to pull up his roots The Chinese character
became the again and go into full time Dou is a pictograph whose
Pastor. Christian service. shape comes from the
bronze vessel Dou, in later
Pastor Niu was elderly with his two children, Jin Hua and Jin Ding Chinese meaning "bean"
both in one of the refugee universities near us. Pastor Niu was also or "pea". Westerners
a university graduate, so he was very acceptable to the numbers of know it in the first syllable
educated people who came to our church services, and yet he had a of “dofu” (or “tofu” - bean
curd) As a
simple way of explaining the Gospel which was not hard for the Chinese traditional unit of
simple country people to understand. He was so humble that he volume the dou equals 10
really lived the Gospel in front of their eyes. He had been a great litres.
help to me when Percy was away from home so much. I often had
303
