. A'Chu and other stories. r-shiping the foreign-devils God. But none of these things affected his steadfast pur-pose to be a Christian. Indeed, all this trouble onlymade him more determined to cling closely to Jesus,who alone could give him comfort. While visiting a friend one day, the mother heardhow another Chinese woman had prevented her sonfrom going to the mission chapel. She made up hermind to try the experiment on Chun Yee. This othermother had threatened to cut off her sons queue, whichso frightened the young man that he never went nearthe chapel again. That night Chun Yees mother got
. A'Chu and other stories. r-shiping the foreign-devils God. But none of these things affected his steadfast pur-pose to be a Christian. Indeed, all this trouble onlymade him more determined to cling closely to Jesus,who alone could give him comfort. While visiting a friend one day, the mother heardhow another Chinese woman had prevented her sonfrom going to the mission chapel. She made up hermind to try the experiment on Chun Yee. This othermother had threatened to cut off her sons queue, whichso frightened the young man that he never went nearthe chapel again. That night Chun Yees mother got a pair of bigshears, and coming up to him, said, Now, if you donot promise to stop going to that foreign-devil chapel,I am going to cut off your hair. You then will looklike the foreigner you really are. She had not realized the power and strength of pur-pose that had come to her son through faith in Jesus. Here it is. Cut it off, if you will, he replied,smilingly holding out with one hand the long, blackbraid of hair. 4*. A Steadfast Christian 355 What, can nothing turn you? she exclaimed. Nothing, mother, he replied, and she heard himrepeat softly, I am persuaded, that neither death, norlife, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor thingspresent, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, norany other creature, shall be able to separate us fromthe love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. She had thought to frighten him. Horror uponhorrors! he did not resist even her threat. No; shewould not disgrace herself by making her boy more likethe hated foreigners than he already was. She putaway the scissors, saying sullenly, It is of no use; he has taken some of their Jesusmedicine. Nothing can cure him. He is lost to I die, he will not come and bring me food norworship at my grave. Oh, oh! I shall become a wan-dering beggar, for whom no one has a care! At this she burst into loud weeping. She cursed theforeigners for coming to their land and leading her sonaw
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