Read the Bible Through Forty Times

       In those 193 days he read the Bible through forty times.  Someone questioned this, saying, “I find it difficult to believe John Sung read the Bible through forty times during his stay there.” But Dr. Sung told me this himself, and I knew him well enough to believe him.  It would be once in about five days.  My own daughters at 7 and 8 years of age read the Bible through in two weeks when we three had a contest while besieged by the Japanese on Kuling mountain. one of my bishops used to read books a page at a glance.  So it does not seem too unusual to me that Dr. Sung read the Bible through forty times in 193 days, besides making notes.  He was a fast reader always.  Naturally the Word of God took great effect in his life, and no doubt kept him sane in the midst of insane men, though he was greatly troubled by the mentally disturbed men who slept on either side of him.  He said he almost despaired of life.

       He told me that when the doctors would come and ask him questions, he would ask them questions in return, such as, "Are you born again?  Do you know God?  Has God forgiven your sins?  What are you living for?  Are you living for yourself, or for God and others?" of course these questions would get them under conviction, and they insisted all the more that he was mentally disturbed.  The word got back to China that he had gone crazy on religion, and his father was very distressed, and prayed a great deal about it. Then the Chinese consul had him released and sent him back to China.

       But John Sung was not crazy.  The Chinese consul told me later that Sung was sane.  He had met the Lord, and one is always different after such an experience of the reality of Jesus.  From then on, John Sung had a one-track mind, and only one purpose: to obey God, and to fulfill the life-plan Jesus had revealed to him.