XI.  A GREAT REVIVAL PROMISED

       August 5, 1941, Dr. John Sung wrote to me: A "Peace to Mr. Schubert, Fellow-laborer in the Lord: Since we parted at P.U.M.C. (Peking Union Medical College) I have remembered you without ceasing in my prayers.  On June 7 when I left P.U.M.C. Hospital there were three wound mouths.  By God's blessing, two of the three were entirely healed up while I lived in the home of Dr. Hsu, head of the Peiping Gospel Teams.

       "On July 3 my wife hurriedly returned to Shanghai because of the serious illness of our son.  The same day I came to Hsiang Shan (Fragrant Mountain) and temporarily rented a house for a summer retreat.  I have already been here a month, and the mouth of the wound is nearly healed.

       “Many years ago God used his child to do the first step of His work.  Now God has been using more than two years of illness to prepare His child to accomplish the second step, a much deeper work, not only to lead His children out of Egypt and across the Red Sea into the Wilderness, but also to lead His children across the Jordan River into Canaan to receive that Eternal Rest.

       "In my prayers God has shown me clearly that the great revival time of the Chinese church will come.  This great revival is not through man but through the work of the Holy Spirit Himself exercising the hearts of a certain class of workers, moving them with one accord, one heart and mind to unite in an out-of-the-way place for a long time of prayer, to do prayer work in the Spirit.

       "During this time of prayer in the Spirit, God Himself will begin the work, will lead them into the depths of truth, will lead them to utterly die out, will lead them to want, not self, just want the Lord.  Not to see self, but see the Lord alone.

         "God will lead them with one heart to run with united footsteps, will lead the members to strengthen each other, and in the Spirit to have mutual fellowship, to edify themselves in love.

       "He will lead them to love what the Lord loves, to see as the Lord sees, to hate what the Lord hates, to pray as the Lord prays, to complete what the Lord would complete, will lead them to break every fetter, to be free in the Spirit, to use faith to finish the work that God would finish.

       "God during this time will do a wondrous work.  There are many things I cannot write with a pen, but I hope you will pray much about this, and I believe the Holy Spirit surely will speak in your heart, so I will not say more.

       "In my prayers, God also entrusts you with responsibility for the great revival of the Chinese church.  May the Spirit that worketh in my heart also work in your heart, together with the Lord to hear still small Voice, in these last days to finish the work He himself would finish, even a work with 'gold, silver and precious stones,' which can go through trial by fire.  Isaiah 62:1, 2, 6." These last words of Dr. Sung to me were no doubt a prophecy of impending persecution for the church.