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Miss Ding was the daughter of the late, well-beloved Pastor Ding Li Mei, one of
the mightiest witnesses God has ever raised up in China. He spent his later years of
failing health in the ministry of intercession. This dear man was telling me of the
pangs of soul that he suffered when he discovered the destructive effects of her

American education upon the faith he had instilled in his daughter from her early
youth. He told me of a beautiful Bible he had given to the couple on the occasion of
Sü-Yuin‟s marriage to Ernest Yin, and how he had discovered several years afterward
that it had laid untouched in the bottom of a trunk.

After their marriage, Ernest and Sü-Yuin, who later took the name of Faith, took up
their residence in the city of Tsinanfu, where Ernest held an excellent Government
position as Director of the Tax Bureau on Wines, Spirits and Tobacco. They plunged

into the whirl of society dinner parties, mah-jong parties, theatres, dances, etc.,
differing in no essential particular from the activities of worldly people in any land
and at any time. A son, who was named David, was born of this union, as the four by
the previous marriage were beginning to grow up and attend high school and college.

Lena, the eldest daughter, attended Ginling College at Nanking, and a few years
later gave me her testimony:‟ I had always had a spiritual mind, and desired to know
the things of God. When I was just a young girl in McTier‟s school in Shanghai, I

would walk around the campus at night and look up at the stars and think, „Surely the
Creator of the heavens must have some purpose in us, who are His creatures,‟ and yet
nobody ever told me of the way of Salvation, though it was supposed to be a „mission‟
school. When I later went to Ginling College it was just the same. I still wondered but

not one told me of Christ the Savior and sin-bearer, the coming King. Then someone
gave me a Bible and urged me to read the Gospel of John. It was in the reading of this
Gospel and without human assistance or leading that I received Christ as my personal
Savior. I had been rejoicing in Salvation some months, when I returned to my parents

in Tsinan for a holiday.

“By this time we had another little brother six years old, by our step-mother. They
had called him David and he was the apple of our parents‟ eyes. I found little David

loved the Bible stories I told him and the Gospel choruses I taught him to sing.

“My parents were tolerant toward me, but after some days they took me to task for
not going out with the „young set‟ that I should normally have associate with. I

assured them that since I was a Christian I had no desire whatever to associate with

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