When Dr. Peter Masters, pastor of Spurgeon's Tabernacle, London visited Singapore in 1985, he was introduced to "John Sung My Teacher" which had just come off the press. He was greatly impressed by what I had written of the vivid experiences I had gone through in a Holy Ghost Revival that visited Singapore 1935 through Dr. John Sung. From the fruits of that Singapore Pentecost, Dr. Masters was assured that retelling to his School of Theology would benefit a new generation. The West could learn from the East. Hence the delivery of this series of lectures in London 1986, which is now put together more permanently.

Included in this series is also a sermon preached at the Tabernacle on the Lord's Day. This sermon is another reflection of Dr. Sung's influence upon my life through all these years.

Before reading "The Asian Awakening", it is suggested you first peruse "John Sung My Teacher," wherein his life story is told more fully. This book is rather a commentary on that life so marvellously used of God. And there is a cloud of witnesses to that Awakening in many articles on John Sung published in both Chinese and English periodicals.

In Part II of this book, however, we have gathered before the reader a number of our own witnesses whose testimonies should add credence to this record. Foremost witness to the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in China is William E. Schubert, Dr. Sung's missionary friend and confidant. Nevertheless, this record of the Asian Awakening in the thirties will not be complete without publishing anew the story of Rev. Ting Li Mei, China's first revivalist and John Sung's predecessor. He was born in 1871 exactly thirty years before John Sung. He was a near-martyr in the Boxer Rebellion (1900) the year before John Sung's birth. Research into Rev. Ting's life and work has rekindled my spirits, inasmuch as he was a blessing to my parents in their time, and Ting Li Mei was a household word with us in China.

"Lives of great men all remind us

We can make our lives sublime,

And departing, leave behind us

Footprints on the sands of time."

Timothy Tow

To the sweet memory
of
Miss Leona Wu,
interpreter for
Dr. John Sung
in the
Singapore Pentecost,
president
of
the Preaching Bands
and
founder
of
Chin Lien Bible Seminary,
a golden link
in
the Asian Awakening.