. A'Chu and other stories. the next day, and after that every time the chapel doorwas opened, for four or five days. A month or more later he came back, straight andclean in mind and body. For more than a week hestudied earnestly with the pastor, then asked that hemight be baptized and reckoned as a follower of pastor advised him to wait a while, till they shouldbecome better acquainted, and promised to visit him athis village in the country for this purpose. Before this promise was fulfilled, the young manseldest brother called with a friend to visit the had walked the
. A'Chu and other stories. the next day, and after that every time the chapel doorwas opened, for four or five days. A month or more later he came back, straight andclean in mind and body. For more than a week hestudied earnestly with the pastor, then asked that hemight be baptized and reckoned as a follower of pastor advised him to wait a while, till they shouldbecome better acquainted, and promised to visit him athis village in the country for this purpose. Before this promise was fulfilled, the young manseldest brother called with a friend to visit the had walked the long way from their country vil-lage to the city in order to purchase, at any price thatmight be asked, some of the magic potion with which Influence of a Changed Life 347 the Christians had worked such a wonderful change inthis young man. Why, said the brother, he is a new man! Be-fore, he smoked opium, was indolent, and a left his family to get its own living. He was ablasphemer, and an altogether bad INTERIOR OF CHAPEL, SHANGHAI I did not know what to do with him, added theelder man with a fatherly air. Since his visit tothe Christians he is all changed. He has left off hisbad habits, attends to business, and cares for his than this, he continually labors to bring his neigh-bors to follow his good example. Give us of your Christian medicine, that we, too,may become kind and true men, they urged, 348 AChu and Other Stories The pastor explained that no medicine had workedthis change in their younger brother. Though thouwash thee with niter, and take thee much soap, yetthine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord , it was the power of a crucified and risen Sav-
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