Better Than a Theological Seminary

       John Sung was ten years younger than I, and yet he was my teacher in many ways.  We had many contacts.  In 1931 he was in our home two weeks, the last two weeks of three weeks' meetings he held in our station in China.  I learned more from Dr. Sung in three weeks than I learned in three years in theological seminary.  Whatever I have been able to do since, is largely due to Dr. Sung, under God.  He taught me to preach from the Bible, to find the key word in each Bible book, and the key to each chapter, and connect them together.  He taught me to explain one part of the Bible with other parts of the inspired Word.  He would illustrate his sermons with diagrams on the blackboard.  I learned from him to reinforce the main purpose of the sermon with a theme chorus every two or three minutes, then to give it new force with a sub-theme about two-thirds through the sermon, before swinging back to the original theme chorus.  Often these theme choruses would return to the minds and hearts of my listeners weeks or months later, and stir them to repentance or to make a new dedication.