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day in Nanking.” He was never occupied with his own sorrow, but spent his time

testifying to the many guests who came of the saving power of Christ.

The tragic event in which two shining young people of one of the best-connected
and most widely- acquainted families in all China met sudden death received wide

publicity, and the little chapel at the Race Course Road Cemetery in Tientsin was
packed on that torrid Sunday afternoon.

An excellent opportunity was afforded me to bring the claim and privilege of the

Gospel home to many who knew nothing of it. The message was from II Corinthians
5:1.

For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a

building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

It was evident then and later that in what is to man the untimely death of these two
young people, the challenge to others for the immediate acceptance of Christ as

Savior and Lord was tremendous and in the wisdom of God it was permitted for this
purpose.

Through this testing the character and testimony of Ernest Yin emerged finer and

stronger than ever.
“Precious in the sight of the Lord
is the death of His saints!”

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