Many Students Converted

       So at the end of our fifty days of prayer, Dr. John Sung came, and he preached in our girls' high school chapel (Baldwin Girls' School) each morning the first week.  Our boys' high school, Nanchang Academy, joined.  Dr. Sung told his life story, of which we have recounted a part.  In the afternoons, he went over to Pastor Hsu's place (the man who had invited him) and preached in the Women's and Children's Hospital run by Dr. Ida Kahn.  The students from our two high schools would walk clear across the city, three miles in the rain and mud, to hear him again.

       Then at night he spoke in one of the downtown churches.  He refused to let us open the doors for the street crowds, as had been our custom there.  He said, "No, God told me I was not to fish in a running stream, but in two lakes" (evidently the two high schools).  So the students and others came in the side door, and the church was filled with Christians.

       During that first week practically all the students were converted.  There had been a debate planned on whether religion should be voluntary or required in the schools (at that time the Chinese government did not approve of required religious instruction in the schools).  But now none of the students were willing to take the side of voluntary religious education: all felt it should be required.

       The second week Dr. Sung preached three times a day in the Baldwin Girls' School chapel.  Students and teachers from both high schools, missionaries, doctors and nurses from our Nanchang Hospital, and many from our four city churches, attended.  The interest deepened, and some of the teachers were converted.