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Mr. En-pu Chang, the friend of Miss Lena Yin of Kaifeng. I am happy to meet you

and glad to take this opportunity of introducing you to Mr. Arthur and Miss Grace Yin,
the brother and sister of Lena.”

They had never met before but greeted one another with due decorum and

thenceforward were fast friends.

None of this trio of charming young Chinese had ever believed on or confessed
Christ, but before the series of meetings were over all three came unreservedly to

Christ and confessed Him as Lord and Savior.

Young Mr. Chang came to see me in the room of the home in which I was staying
and gave me his testimony. “I was very self-righteous and felt no sense of sin or need

for a Savior. I was comparing myself with my fellow-man. But the night you gave the
message on the holiness of God as revealed to Isaiah, the Spirit of God showed me
my awful sin and hypocrisy, and I immediately received Christ as Savior and Lord.”
He wrote a long confession of faith to the Yin family in Kaifeng. I warned him lest he

permit any natural affection for Lena to enter into the all-important question of his
relationship to the Lord. He replied with some spirit that for six years he had never
stooped to any pretence along that line and that he would not do so now! Six months
later I had the pleasure of joining the hands of Lena Yin and Jonathan Chang in the

holy bonds of matrimony!

He had asked me to give him a Bible or Christian name.
“Do you really love the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ?” I asked him.

“I do indeed,” he replied.
“David was the type of Christ and Jonathan, the son of Saul, loved him as his own
soul. I therefore dub thee Jonathan!” Jonathan he has been to all his Christian friends
from that day forth, and a beautiful and steadfast couple they have been in the

testimony of the Lord ever since they have been joined together.

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