His Only Son Died

       When Mrs. Sung got back to Shanghai from that trip to see Dr. Sung in the hospital, she found their son seriously ill.  It was a fatal illness, though we prayed for his healing.  Dr. Sung told me when I saw him again in the hospital in Peiping, "Shu Sien-sen, God had only one begotten Son, and He died.  I had only one son and he died." It is true that John Sung in many ways typified the ministry of God in the world, especially as regards China.  His ministry, in his own body, typified the sufferings, and the spiritual victories of China and the church in China and the Far East.  China was in agony, and John Sung had this great sorrow in illness.

       When we began to come to the end of Dr. Sung's fifteen years of ministry, of which Jesus had told him in his room in New York City, I began to pray about it.  I wept and prayed, and I said, "Lord, we need him.  Please continue his ministry.  Extend the time as you did with King Hezekiah." He did live two or three years after the fifteen years, but without any public ministry.  He died August 18, 1944.