Re: Pastor Wang Ming Dao's take on Watchman Nee
PriestlyScribe, here are the improved translations of the portions you highlighted from my wife:
Page 142 (2nd Paragraph)
However, in the 1980s, Wang Mingdao recalled this meeting in a conversation.
He said: "I especially went out of my way to travel to Fuzhou by ship and stayed at his [Watchman Nee’s] place for four days. During the first one or two days, he was very hospitable, but then he turned very cold all of a sudden. I don’t understand what made him change. I loved him wholeheartedly and wanted to have fellowship with him, but he was very cold to me. I was very disappointed, and went back home."
Page 143 (Bottom)
Footnote 47 "Wang Mingdao's Unpublished Posthumous Manuscript". In this manuscript, during an encounter, Wang Mingdao said to Watchman Nee: "If you continue down this road, I am afraid that one day you will hate yourself and [blank] yourself."
(The [blank] is a missing Chinese character. If we had to guess the sentence may have ended as "hurt yourself")
Page 158
[Concerning Mr. Song]
Among God’s workers, some have shortcomings that are many times worse compared to him [Mr. Song], but nobody knows about them because they know how to hide their shortcomings. But if he had any weaknesses he would not try to hide them. Many people criticize him for this, but I love this about him. I don't love his shortcomings, what I love is his sincerity. Of course those shortcomings are bad and should be corrected...
One of Mr. Song’s greatest strengths is his courage. He has the courage of the Old Testament prophets. He is a warrior who isn't afraid to confront sin. He fearlessly condemns sin in society as well as sin in the church. He has no regard for what others think of him when they oppose him..
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1 John 4:9
This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
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