VIII.  A MAN OF ONE BOOK

       One secret of Dr. John Sung's lasting success was the way he spent hours every day with his Bible.  In fact, he seldom if ever read anything else.  When he was with us in 1931, I offered him the morning paper.  He looked at the headlines (mere courtesy) and laid it down, not interested.  Bishop Gowdy, his own bishop, who admired and appreciated him, gave him the conference course books, but Sung told me, "They have no taste; what shall I do?" I replied, "Don't read them." Hinghwa Conference admitted him anyway.

       Our electricity went off at ten p.m., so we gave him a little night lamp, but the next morning the oil was all gone, and he asked if he could have a larger lamp.  We gave him a big lamp, but the following morning that was empty too.  I thought, "What does this man do at night?" So I made an excuse to go in and see if he needed anything, and there, in the middle of the night, I found him on his knees by the desk, with his Bible and notebook, writing down the things the Lord gave him.  Day and night he was in the Word of God.  I asked him why he didn't write up some of these things.  I told him, "People ought to know some of the things God tells you." He replied, "Oh, Shu Sien-sen, if I would publish the things God tells me, they would surely think me crazy," So he didn't publish them, and they are not in the books written about him.  But I have written some here.