A Slave for Christ’s Sake

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Many years ago Lough Fook, a Chinese Christian, moved with compassion for the workers in the South American mines, sold himself into slavery for a term of five years and was transported to Demerara that he might carry the gospel to his countrymen there. He toiled in the mines with them and preached Christ as he toiled, until there were scores of whom he could say, as Paul of Onesimus, “whom I have begotten in my bonds” (Phile. 1:10), He died some time ago, but not until he had won to the Savior nearly two hundred disciples, whom he left behind in membership with Christian churches. To a Christian Chinaman belongs the honor of coming nearest to his Master in actual deed for “He took upon Him the form of a slave” (see Phil. 2:7).

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