Fare to America Came in Answer to Prayer

       When Sung Shan-chieh finished high school, he prayed that he might go to America to college.  However, his father was just a poor Methodist preacher, and didn't have the money to send him to the United States.  But about that time, someone who owed his father money, repaid it, and because exchange was very favorable, it was just enough to pay his fare to Ohio, to Ohio Wesleyan.  A missionary had told him to come and stay at his house there.  But when he arrived, the missionary had gone back to China.  So there he was; he had spent all his money on his boat fare, and now he had nothing remaining for room, board or tuition.  Today, if students go to America, they must have a guarantor, and also money in the bank.  But in those days, no such questions were asked.  So here he was, apparently stranded.  Then he really prayed, "O God, I'm surely out of luck, if you don't help me, I don't know what I'll do."

        When he went over to the college, the YMCA secretary saw this young Chinese man walking around looking very unhappy, and asked him about his problem.  Then he found him a job enabling him to work for his tuition, and another for his board and room.  He worked his way through college, and finished in three years at the head of his class, others who were there told me.  Also, he sent money back to his father in China to send his brother to America to study.