During the late Twentieth century, no matter how fiercely the storms of persecution raged, Christianity could no longer be uprooted from China as it was in the Tang, Ming, and Qing Dynasties. Instead, the Faith flourished -- it had grown too strong to be suppressed.
Devil tried hard to vanish, but since Matteo Ricci, Robert Morrison, Hudson TaylorFrom Matteo Ricci, Robert Morrison, and Hudson Taylor, to the Boxer martyrs of 1900, the seeds planted by the life and blood of thousands of western missionaries finally had sent down deep roots into this harsh and ancient land.
John Sung was born in 1901. In 1926, he studied in America and received his Ph.D. in chemistry, and then went to the Union Theological Seminary of New York. The president of the seminary thought Song was crazy. He was locked up for 193 days. In the asylum, Song read the Bible forty times. Later, on his way back to China, Song threw a golden key into the Pacific Ocean; it was the symbol of his Ph.D. In the following seventeen years, John Sung, known as Crazy Song, spread the gospel like wildfire across China and Southeast Asia. In 1944, when he was 43 years old, Song passed away.
Watchman Nee was born in 1902. From the time he was twenty-eight, he wrote a great deal in both Chinese and English. In Shanghai, he established a church known as the Local Small-Group church, and soon this form of church spread across the country. In 1952, he was convicted of counterrevolutionary activities and was imprisoned in Baimaoling Jail. He died suddenly in 1972, just before the end of his prison term.
All these men, who were born around the Boxer Rebellion, later became the founders of Chinese Christian churches.
During the late Twentieth century, no matter how fiercely the storms of persecution raged, Christianity could no longer be uprooted from China as it was in the Tang, Ming, and Qing Dynasties. Instead, the Faith flourished -- it had grown too strong to be suppressed.
Sequency of new pics
arrests
tortures
Chinese jail
Temples destructions
Lots of bibles burned
One Bible become so rarely that they were copied by hand
But the light has never put it out
bibles under the banboo curtains
thirsty of the God's Word
the joyfull of chineses
This smile had a long history. He stayed many years imprisioned,
but jail could never erase the bright of Holy Spirit presence
See the "confort" of his pastoral roon..
Now look at the joyfull face of this preacher
quite differente of the Western preachers that
do not know how to smile anymore
Churchs closed
abandoneds
but they start coming to life
Mao is gone
He failed on his plan to destroy once more the Lord's Church.
That is still living and growing firmly
source of the text: www.chinasoul.org.
Source of the video: www.dailymotion.com/septre - jesus in chine 2
Autor of the shots at the videos: João Cruzue.
cruzue@gmail.com
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