Some time after the Spring Festival this year, I had dinner with some church members, and during the meal, Shasha shared the testimony of how her great-grandmother, Mei, came to Christ.
Mei was born into a wealthy family. Her mother was the third wife of a wealthy merchant, and Mei lived a life of luxury in her youth. It was a time when Western learning was spreading eastward and a revolution was raging. Because her family lived in the coastal area, which was more open to the outside world, Mei's feet were not bound as a child, and she was even able to attend a foreign school.
When Mei was 20, her father arranged for her to marry the son of a wealthy merchant. However, this man was a playboy, and his love affairs with other women were well known. Mei was reluctant to marry this scum, but she had no choice since her father demanded that she comply. Fortunately, her mother arranged for Mei to run away to avoid the marriage. So, she left her hometown and came to a beautiful island.
Talented and competent, Mei soon began working in a Christian hospital and even continued her studies there. Mei devoted her entire life to practicing medicine as an obstetrician-gynecologist, and although she never married, she adopted several abandoned children and formed a loving family.
Yet Mei, who worked in a Christian hospital with other co-workers who shared their Christian faith with her, remained unmoved when she was preached to. Not until more than 20 years later. By then, Mei’s children were grown and studying abroad, but the counter-Japanese war broke out. After following the other refugees to the home front, they lost contact with Mei.
After not hearing from her children for many years, Mei became sick with longing for them. So, the Christians around her told Mei that she needed to come to Christ because He would be her help. And Mei began going to church, praying, and reading the Bible, and finally became a Christian.
After the war was won a few years later, Mei's children returned to their hometown. Not only were they all successful in their careers, but one of them was even a hero in the War of Resistance. Mei thanked God for protecting them all. From then on, she became a very devoted Christian and continued to attend church until she was in her nineties.
Mei's mother, who missed her daughter, traveled all the way from Lingnan to the island to visit Mei. But since she was old and weak, she fell seriously ill from the hard journey. When she was dying, Mei and other brothers and sisters in the church prayed for her constantly, and she miraculously survived.
This was God's way of letting Mei's mother make arrangements before she left this world, and she passed away peacefully a week later. Since her mother was not a Christian, Mei was amazed by such an experience.
Mei's descendants are all devoted Christians, and some are currently serving as core church staff.
- Translated by Joyce Leung
今年春节后我与一些信徒聚餐，莎莎分享了她曾祖母 名叫 梅 的信主的见证。
梅出生在一个大户人家，她妈妈是某位富商的三姨太，她小时候过着锦衣玉食的生活。那时正值西学东渐、革命风起云涌。她的家庭处于沿海开放的地区，她并没有从小缠足，甚至还进入了洋学堂读书。
梅到20岁时，父亲就给她安排了一门亲事，对象也是一位富商的儿子。但此人是个花花公子，其风流韵事几乎是全城皆知。梅不愿嫁给这个渣男，但父亲强烈要求她顺从自己的意思，她也无可奈何。幸好她的母亲安排了她逃婚，梅因此离开家乡，来到了一座美丽的岛屿。
她很快凭着自己的才华，进入了某教会医院工作，并在此深造。她一生虽然没有结婚，但都奉献给了医疗事业。作为妇产科的医生，她也收养了好几位被人遗弃的孩子，组建了一个温馨之家。
梅虽然在教会医院工作，但周围的同事给她分享福音，她也不为所动。直到二十多年后，她的孩子都长大成人，在外地求学。可那年抗战爆发，孩子跟着难民去了大后方，与梅失去了联系。
多年没有孩子消息的梅，因着思念患上了疾病。身边的信徒见状后，就告诉她要信基督，因祂会帮助她解决困难。于是梅开始上教堂、读经、祈祷，成为一名基督徒。
大概几年后抗战胜利，她的孩子们纷纷回到了故乡。他们不仅都事业有成，有位还是抗日的英雄。她感谢上帝保守了她的孩子们。从此她对信仰极为虔诚，即使到了九十多岁仍坚持到教堂礼拜。
梅的母亲因为思念她，从岭南来到了小岛看望她。可由于舟车劳顿，加上年老体弱，她患上了严重的疾病。在弥留之际，梅与教会的弟兄姐妹恒切为她祷告，她最终奇迹般地活了过来。
这是上帝让她回到人间，安排一切后事，七日后她母亲就安详地走了。母亲从未信主，这样的经历让梅感到十分惊奇。
梅的后代都是虔诚的信徒，有些人目前还是教会的核心同工。
一位教会长辈的传奇见证
Some time after the Spring Festival this year, I had dinner with some church members, and during the meal, Shasha shared the testimony of how her great-grandmother, Mei, came to Christ.
Mei was born into a wealthy family. Her mother was the third wife of a wealthy merchant, and Mei lived a life of luxury in her youth. It was a time when Western learning was spreading eastward and a revolution was raging. Because her family lived in the coastal area, which was more open to the outside world, Mei's feet were not bound as a child, and she was even able to attend a foreign school.
When Mei was 20, her father arranged for her to marry the son of a wealthy merchant. However, this man was a playboy, and his love affairs with other women were well known. Mei was reluctant to marry this scum, but she had no choice since her father demanded that she comply. Fortunately, her mother arranged for Mei to run away to avoid the marriage. So, she left her hometown and came to a beautiful island.
Talented and competent, Mei soon began working in a Christian hospital and even continued her studies there. Mei devoted her entire life to practicing medicine as an obstetrician-gynecologist, and although she never married, she adopted several abandoned children and formed a loving family.
Yet Mei, who worked in a Christian hospital with other co-workers who shared their Christian faith with her, remained unmoved when she was preached to. Not until more than 20 years later. By then, Mei’s children were grown and studying abroad, but the counter-Japanese war broke out. After following the other refugees to the home front, they lost contact with Mei.
After not hearing from her children for many years, Mei became sick with longing for them. So, the Christians around her told Mei that she needed to come to Christ because He would be her help. And Mei began going to church, praying, and reading the Bible, and finally became a Christian.
After the war was won a few years later, Mei's children returned to their hometown. Not only were they all successful in their careers, but one of them was even a hero in the War of Resistance. Mei thanked God for protecting them all. From then on, she became a very devoted Christian and continued to attend church until she was in her nineties.
Mei's mother, who missed her daughter, traveled all the way from Lingnan to the island to visit Mei. But since she was old and weak, she fell seriously ill from the hard journey. When she was dying, Mei and other brothers and sisters in the church prayed for her constantly, and she miraculously survived.
This was God's way of letting Mei's mother make arrangements before she left this world, and she passed away peacefully a week later. Since her mother was not a Christian, Mei was amazed by such an experience.
Mei's descendants are all devoted Christians, and some are currently serving as core church staff.
- Translated by Joyce Leung
Legendary Testimony of Elderly Sister
