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Miracle Lives of China

by Jonathan Goforth

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These are soul-stirring stories recording God's miraculous power in the conversion of men as seen in mission work during the forty years these missionary warriors labored in China. The vivid pen-sketches titled The Blind Chief, The Idol Maker, and The Gambler's End take the reader into the heart of Chinese village life. The triumphant accounts of God's grace in the lives of A Chinese Shakespeare and A Faithful Pastor, and the record of how the students were reached makes for vigorous and enheartening reading. The closing chapter contains a brief sketch of the famous Christian General, Marshall Feng Yu-hsiang. This companion volume to By My Spirit is rich with incidents from the lives of these two saints of God. We see, in reading such a volume as this, that we are still serving a miracle-working God.… (more)
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These are soul-stirring stories recording God's miraculous power in the conversion of men as seen in mission work during the forty years these missionary warriors labored in China. The vivid pen-sketches titled The Blind Chief, The Idol Maker, and The Gambler's End take the reader into the heart of Chinese village life. The triumphant accounts of God's grace in the lives of A Chinese Shakespeare and A Faithful Pastor, and the record of how the students were reached makes for vigorous and enheartening reading. The closing chapter contains a brief sketch of the famous Christian General, Marshall Feng Yu-hsiang. This companion volume to By My Spirit is rich with incidents from the lives of these two saints of God. We see, in reading such a volume as this, that we are still serving a miracle-working God.

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Chapter I. Earliest trophies of grace:

1. The blind chief

2. The humbling of a proud Confucianist

3. A broken but filled vessel

Chapter II. Two of China's merit-seekers:

1. "Nathanael"

2. Nathanael's friend

Chapter III. The idol maker

Chapter IV. The missionary's farmer friend

Chapter V. From servant to superintendent:

1. The Yang family

2. Yang Yu-ming, the servant

3. Climbing the ladder

Chapter VI. Cameos of one Chinese village:

1. Winning a would-be murderer

2. How "Old Autocrat" was won by a sketch

3. Little Mary andthe small-pox babies

4. The gambler's end

5. The old violinist

Chapter VII. Three notable evangelists:

1. A military Mandarin

2. Model Confucianist

3. A scholar saved from the depths

Chapter VIII. Proofs of God's grace:

1. A Chinese Shakespeare

2. A faithful pastor

3. Saved from a feed-basket

Chapter IX. How we reached the students

Chapter X. Nothing too hard for God, or work amont the

bandits


Chapter XI. The story of Mr. Su, my trusted co-worker

Chapter XII. Gospel triumphs among the scholars of one

county


Chapter XIII. The angel of Shanghai

Chapter XIV. The Bethel Mission

Chapter XV. Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang - An unfinished

sketch.

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