At the Student Volunteer Convention in Toronto, Dr. Horace G. Underwood
told the following incident:
A copy of the Book of the Acts fell into the hands of a Korean,
whose heart was touched by the truths. He gathered his villagers
together and taught them its contents and they sent for
missionaries to come to them. It was impossible for them to go
at once, but they sent copies of the Gospels. The eager Koreans
read and studied as well as they could alone, and noticing that
some “washing rite” was enjoined upon the believers in the Jesus
doctrine, they met to discuss how they should follow it out and
thus fulfil all righteousness. They prayed over it for a time,
and at last decided that each should go to his own home and
reverently should wash himself in the name of the Father and of
the Son and of the Holy Ghost. (Text.)
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