Identifier: ourdayinlightofp00spic (find matches)
Title: Our day in the light of prophecy and providence
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Spicer, William Ambrose, 1866-
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Publisher: Oshawa, Ont., Canadian Watchman Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Ningpo, by a Chi-nese evangelist who had met the man in a tea shop. As soonas Wang heard the evangelist speak of Christianity, he went tohim and said, I want to learn more of this strange religion.So he was brought to Mr. Taylor, who says: It was a strange story he told us, one to which at that time wescarcely gave credence. Some six or seven months before, he had been very ill; every onethought him at the point of death. One day he was left alone in thehouse, all his family being out at work, when he distinctly heard him-self called by name. Wide awake, and perfectly conscious, he lookedaround for the speaker, but saw no one. Feeling very uncomfortable,he got out of bed, and unable from weakness to cross the room, creptto the door by the help of furniture and walls. But on looking outhe was even more perplexed, for still there was no one to be seen. Backinto bed again he crept, wondering if he could have been mistaken,when he heard the voice a second time. Again he crawled out to the
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Deliverance hy the Spoken Message 633 door. Again, no one. Alarmed, he feebly made his way back, andburied his face beneath the coverlet, now thinking that the voice heheard must be the summons of death, and dreading to see some hideousapparition come to drag away his spirit, he knew not whither. Instead, of this, however, he heard the voice a third time, and itwent on quietly to direct him to make an infusion of some simple herbthat would cure his complaint, and to go, upon recovery, to the city ofNingpo, where he would learn of a new religion which he was tofollow. When the family came home, he got some one to make him the herbtea, by the use of which he speedily recovered; and when strengthened,he came to Ningpo. Having no other method of obtaining a livelihood,he supported himself as a grasscutter. He had been thus employed in the city, but had never heard thegospel. As soon as he met with Neng-kuei, however, in the tea shop, heconcluded that this must be the new religion he had b

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