ed into the room, to
the great distress of Mrs. Lue. She knew he had not walked a step for
days, and was afraid he might fall, so prepared to help him back again.
But he took no notice of her, and confronting the vegetarian, said,
"No, she is not wrong; you are wrong, our God is worthy of our trust.
He does care for us, He does love us, and the trials are only for a
short while." He asked for a New Testament, and began looking for a
text. His eyes were dim, and he wanted to put on his glasses, but had
not the strength to do so, and his fingers were almost unable to turn
the pages of the book. Mrs. Lue remonstrated, telling him that he was
ill, dying, and must go back to bed. But he heeded her not, he must
show the vegetarian in black and white on Whom their hope was built.
At last he found what he wanted. His trembling fingers pointed to the
Word, and in a weak, but glad voice, he read out--"Be ye also patient,
stablish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh." His
eagerness and earnestness, even when at the very door of death, made a
great impression on all around, and the vegetarian leader took his
departure. A few days later old Chang was called Home. He was never
enrolled on the Church register, but no one ever doubted that his name
was registered in the Book of Life. His faith kept firm to the last,
and he gave instructions that no heathen rites were to be performed for
him. He said, "I am going straight to my Saviour. I do not need any
Taoist priest to break open the door of hell, or to bridge the gulf,
for the door of heaven is opened wide for me through Jesus and His
blood."

Mr. Lue bought a coffin for him, and his own relatives were to take the
coffin to the home of the old man, three miles out in the country. The
relatives came, but not to do their duty, only to make trouble. They
declared the Lue family must have received a lot of money from old
Chang, and demanded it back. They refused to bury their relative, so
Mr. Lue calmly called others to bury him, and paid all the extra
expenses. Then the shop-keepers at Kucheng got enraged, and made the
relatives ashamed of their behaviour, for they knew in their hearts,
and all others knew, that Mr. and Mrs. Lue had pitied the old man in his
poverty and sickness, when his own people had spurned him.

Again the Lord had been glorified through His servants, and although
they did not receive much gratitude here for many of their loving
de