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CHAPTER VI - ARTHUR AND GRACE

PRESENTED AT THE KING‟S COURT

During the six months in which the beautiful romance of Lena and Jonathan
budded and blossomed into marriage, Arthur Yin, employed in a newly established

bank in Shanghai, was receiving his baptism of fire as a soldier of Jesus Christ. This
winsome young graduate of Tsing Hua University, where he distinguished himself in
academics and athletics, was thrown into the midst of the whirlpool of iniquity that is

the Paris of the Orient. On the occasion of one or two visits that I made to Shanghai
during the course of the first six months of 1935, he sought me out in his time and
stayed with me in my room at the Missionary Home.

He sighed for a placed of quiet in which to pray and read his Bible.

“My rooming house is in the midst of a nest of gambling dens, brothels,
motion-picture houses and dance-halls, and I long for a quiet room where I can go that
is out of earshot of all this unholy noise to read and pray.”

I suggested to him a room that was near to his banking establishment that was set
aside for prayer. Primarily interested in the things of God we discussed the blessed
truths of the Scriptures at great length, but our conversations would range all through
the fields of economics, current events, comparisons of the various dialect of Chinese

(he was an adept in at least three of the most diverse) to an analysis of Bill Tilden‟s
tennis strokes! The fellowship was delightful. I rejoiced to see him grow in spiritual
knowledge and understanding.

It was at Easter that he came from Shanghai and his prospective brother-in-law,
Jonathan, came from Nanking to the church where I was ministering in Chinkiang to
publicly confess Christ and to receive baptism. One could search the world over for
two more cultured, courteous, charming young men than this pair, scions of the best

families of old China, trophies of the grace of Christ.

Grace continued to pursue her studies in the University of Nanking, but with a new

hope and joy.

The warm days of summer came again. The wedding of Lena and Jonathan was on
June first at our home atop a lovely hill. It was a memorable occasion, with all the
members of the Yin family present and many other friends of China and the West. The
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