Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from From Opium Fiend to Preacher the Story of Cheng Ting Chiah
It is a message to our day. William Arthur said, half a century ago: In this age Of faith in the natural, and disinclination to the super natural, we want especially to meet the whole world with this credo' I believe in the Holy Ghost.' With no less emphasis does this timely word from the Tongue of Fire require to be repeated in our day. This story then is a voice to our time. We believe it warrantable and rev etoud to paraphrase and adapt the language of Scripture (1 Cor. And say It is not by eu ticing words of man's wisdom that this story grips our hearts, but the miracle of which Cheng, the erstwhile idolatrous Opium slave, was transformed into an earnest and successful preacher of the gospel, is a miracle of grace and is in demonstration of the Spirit and of power. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
