The Product of Prayer

       Sung Shan-chieh was born in Hinghwa, Fukien Province, South China, son of a Chinese Methodist preacher.  At that time the church there was only nominally Christian, although there were some very good people.  However, a lady missionary was not satisfied with the spiritual condition of the church.  So she wrote to friends in America and asked them to pray for revival in Hinghwa.  Among those who prayed, there were two women who met together to plead for revival in Hinghwa.  Now, they had never been in China.  They only knew this missionary.  But as they met together regularly, the prayed for revival in Hinghwa where their missionary friend worked. One day, about two weeks before Easter 1909, they prayed through: God assured them that there would be revival in Hinghwa.  So they wrote a letter, by ship, of course in those days, which got to Hinghwa about two weeks after Easter.  But two weeks before the letter arrived, the revival began - on Good Friday 1909.