A China-Wide Ministry

       We asked all those who were converted or filled with the Spirit in the Nanchang meetings to write out their testimonies.  Our Chinese teachers copied them, and we posted them around the school chapel for all to see and read.  Then we sent copies of these testimonies to the Christian papers throughout China.  The news went everywhere, and as a result John Sung was invited to preach in many places.  The "Door" was opening.

       Then Dr. Sung worked for two years or more with Bethel Mission in Shanghai, with the Bethel Bands under the fine leadership of Andrew Gih.  But at the end of that time, Miss Jennie Hughes of Bethel, hearing that he intended to leave Bethel and work with the Presbyterians, dismissed him abruptly.  He wrote to me that he had no such plans, and asked me, "What shall I do?"

       I got out my notebook of 1931 in which I had written down what Jesus had told him in 1927 in New York City.  Then I wrote him that now he had finished the "Door" period (it was November 1933).  "Now you are about to enter the "Dove" period of your ministry." That was the way it was, because, before he got my answer, there were many invitations to hold meetings in many places in China.  He selected enough for six months, one week in each place.  That was the beginning of the "Dove" period, from 1933 to 1936, the great Holy Ghost time, during which John Sung had something over 100,000 converts, and many others of us were greatly used of God.  It prepared many for the coming persecutions.  Persecution always follows revival.