Dr. Sung's Family Was Second to God

       During the "Blood" period, though ill, he traveled to Singapore, Indonesia, Manila and Taiwan, and preached in many places for all groups.  One time I happened to be at the Bund in Shanghai waiting for somebody also to arrive by ship, and here I saw Dr. Sung just coming ashore.  He had been in Singapore or Indonesia.  He asked me, "Shu Sien-sen (Mr. Schubert) can you tell me where my wife lives?" His wife had moved, and he didn't know her address.  So I telephoned to a Chinese friend, who came and got Dr. Sung and took him home.

       Dr. Sung had a very lovely, beautiful wife, a sweet Christian.  They had four children, a boy and three girls.  Dr. Sung hadn't wanted to get married, but his father insisted.  He would go off for months at a time and leave his wife while he held revival meetings all over the Far East.  However, he wrote out his life story, and the income from "My Testimony" and his choruses and other books was Mrs. Sung's.  She filled the orders and received the money.  Later, a committee did that.

       Dr. Sung was very much afraid of getting rich and fat, he told me, like some evangelists who had made lots of money and settled down, and as he said, were "too fat." So he wouldn't keep any of the money that was given him in his meetings, but turned it over to a committee, who supported his wife and children, and gave him whatever he needed, which was very little except fares.  Incidentally, after he died in North China two or three years after the end of the fifteen-year ministry, Mrs. Sung culled out material from his notebooks and sent it to this committee, and they published it.  It is available in Chinese, though not in English.  This includes many of the things the Lord told him as he studied the Bible day and night for years.  Thus Mrs. Sung tries to continue his work.