si-boo

Updated: May 25, 2025

If they would worship Jesus, however, and pray to the Holy Spirit to change their hearts, as his had been changed, then they would understand him." An interesting case narrated in the life of W. C. Burns is that of Si-boo, who afterwards went as an evangelist among his own countrymen at Singapore. "On Mr.

John Gerardus Fagg - Forty Years in South China: The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D.

Sometimes he would take his seat on the 'Gospel Boat' when away on some evangelistic enterprise; and while we were slowly rowing up some river or creek, or scudding away before a favorable wind to some distant port, Si-boo would be busy at work on his beads; but as soon as we reached our destination, the beads and tools were thrust into his pouch, and with his Bible and a few tracts in his hand, he was off to read or talk to the people, and leave his silent messengers behind him."

John Gerardus Fagg - Forty Years in South China: The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D.

"One of the first sacrifices to which Si-boo was called was a great one. His trade of idol-carver must be given up, and with that his only means of support; and that means both respectable and lucrative to a skillful hand like his. But to his credit he did not hesitate.

John Gerardus Fagg - Forty Years in South China: The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D.

Burns' first visit to Pechuia, he found amongst the foremost and most interesting of his hearers, a youth of about eighteen or twenty, called Si-boo. "Of stature rather under the average of his countrymen, with an eye and countenance more open than usual, and a free and confiding manner, he soon attracted the attention of the missionary.

John Gerardus Fagg - Forty Years in South China: The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D.

Had Si-boo been of the spirit of Demetrius, he would have opposed and persecuted Mr. Burns for bringing his craft into danger.

John Gerardus Fagg - Forty Years in South China: The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D.