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CHAPTER V - LENA AND JONATHAN

WHOM GOD HATH JOINED TOGETHER

It was on this same first visit to the city of Kaifeng and after the conversion of her
brother that Lena, the charming daughter of Ernest Yin, asked me for an interview.

This, of course, was granted and Lena opened the conversation by saying,
“I want to tell you of my temptation.”

I have had enough experience to know that when a lovely young girl speaks of her
“temptation” it is very likely to wear trousers. So it proved in this case.

She told me of an interrupted romance. When still a student in Ginling College, at
Nanking, she had become acquainted with a young man who was a student in the

University.

“He is a very nice young man, you know, and a model of good character and

behavior. So moral and upright is he that he feels no need of a Savior.”

He would persist in saying, in reply to her urging him to believe in Christ for
Salvation,

“I have no need to be a Christian. What is the use of it? I am already a better man
than those who claim to be Christians.”

He was, however, most kind and considerate of her and would escort her to the
door where Christians were met together and would come and meet her after the
service and see her back to the college, but he would never go in.

There are parts of Nanking within the city walls that are wide open spaces, where

there are undulating hills, groves, gardens, fields. One would seem to be in the
country rather than in one of the greatest, most populous capitals in the world. It was
while walking along a road through gust such a rustic scene as this that the handsome

Mr. Chang stopped and point-blank asked the charming Miss Yin to marry him. Miss
Yin replied,
“There is one serious object to it. I am going to heaven and you are on your way to
hell, so how can two people who are going in opposite directions get married?”

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