A Seventy-Year-Old Woman’s Conversion
One of the Baptist missionaries in North China tells an incident which shows the power of Christianity to work a striking reformation even in the lives of the aged: “Among our members is a woman who was formerly very bad. She had a son, a Christian, with whom she lived alone. She was blind and somewhat infirm, but when she got her temper up, able and strong enough for anything. The son often prayed to God that he would convert his mother. One night he removed from the room the idol gods, that she might not worship them. She found it out, picked up an ax, and banged him on the head with it, making a nasty wound. What was he to do? We told him he must forgive her, and still pray for her; and so things went on, until one day she gave her heart to Christ. She came to us, and after eighteen months’ probation she was received, and at that time, altho seventy years of age, she was able to repeat twenty hymns and nearly the whole of the Gospel of St. John. She had never been out of her own village, and had very small feet, yet she traveled fifteen miles to the place of baptism.” —Union Gospel News.