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“On the Sunday morning we headed back to the friendly Three Self church, called Jiuen De Men. There were about a thousand people crammed in. . . . It was in 1869 that an Aberdeenshire schoolmaster by the name of George Stott hirpled into Wenzhou, the first Protestant missionary to arrive there. I say hirpled because he was one-legged, and his first convert was a blind, semi-paralyzed Chinese. Incredibly, this very church was the one he had built a mere 10 years after arriving. Stott died in 1889. Like most intrepid missionaries of the 19th century, he died where he laboured. What a picture of the power of the gospel. After all the chaos of the 20th century – the world wars, the Japanese invasion, the insanity of the cultural revolution – to think that what a one-legged Scotsman built out of nothing 120 years ago should still be standing, and even fuller of people than before. If that is not an irrefutable argument to give one’s life to mission, what is?”
—Alex Buchan, “Journey to the heart of the Chinese revival”, Compass Direct, Sept. 26, 1997
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