\u2022 Bro. Zilong Lin \u2022<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Proverbs 12:4a A worthy woman is the crown of her husband,<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Proverbs 19:14 House and wealth are an inheritance from fathers, But a prudent wife is from Jehovah.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0My wife Deqian Yu, (formal name Yiehua), is the third daughter of my eldest maternal uncle.\u00a0 Her paternal grandfather is the pastor of Fuxing Methodist Church in its early days.\u00a0 Ever since she was young, she grew up in a Christian family.\u00a0 In January of 1937, Brother Stephen Kaung came to Fuxing County seat to preach the gospel, that is when she got clearly saved and baptized into the Lord.\u00a0 Though She and I were cousins, but it was at Brother Stephen Kaung\u2019s gospel preaching meeting where my maternal grandmother introduced us.\u00a0 At that time, she and my younger sister Yufang Lin were both learning medicine in my oldest aunt Hebi Yu\u2019s clinic.\u00a0 Not long after, due to my younger sister\u2019s introduction, with my father officiating, we got engaged.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 On January 18, 1938 (Lunar calendar Dingchou year, December 17), I and Sister Deqian Yu got married. \u00a0After the wedding our feelings for each other were great, but in the first seven years we were mostly separated.\u00a0 In the latter half of 1938, I went to work in Lianchen county in western Fujian, she also has been there to visit me.\u00a0 But very soon, I had to leave Lianchen county to go to work in Sha County, and Ningde.\u00a0 Until 1944, after graduating from Normal School I returned to Fuxing to teach, my life stabilized, then got more time to live together with her.\u00a0 She bore and raised two sons and two daughters for me, maintaining the household was entirely up to her.\u00a0 In the latter half of 1955, the Lord called me to set aside my career to serve Him full time.\u00a0 My family of six lived only by faith, this was not an easy thing forty some years ago, but she can be one with me on this and have no complaints.\u00a0 January 1960, my whole family moved back to Yuxi from the county seat, she and I can join in the labor of the Production team, go out for harsh manual labor every day, often go up to chop wood on the mountain, making clearings, plant vegetables, sell vegetables, suffered a very hard life.\u00a0 Especially when I was imprisoned many times for the Lord, sentenced for many years, the burden of the household she had to hold up alone, she can still obey God\u2019s will.\u00a0 July of 1963, I was imprisoned for the second time, for a prison sentence of ten years, at that time my four children were still young, the chaos of the Cultural Revolution made the environment very tough, but she held on, year after year.\u00a0 October 1973 when I finished my sentence and returned home, she was skinny to the point of being skin and bones, my heart ached for her!\u00a0 Looking back at our marriage life for 62 years, I admit that she truly is a diligent and able housewife.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Spiritually, she also really loved the Lord.\u00a0 For decades, she shared my joys and sorrows, both positively served the Lord within the church.\u00a0 After I was arrested in 1983, she took care of the saints of the Church in Yuxi.\u00a0 At that time the environment was difficult, not allowed to have Lord\u2019s Table in the homes, she and several saints remembered the Lord at the side of the stream at night, under flashlight; at that time the bread and cup of the church were all her responsibility.\u00a0 Though she cannot give messages, but she can use the practical life to supply others, so the brothers and sisters respected her.\u00a0 Those decades, though she experienced many harsh troubles, but she never complained, willing held up her cross to come follow the Lord.\u00a0 In May 1999, the evening of my latest imprisonment, she was already very ill, but she said to me again, \u201cthe Lord be with you.\u201d\u00a0 What\u2019s more miraculous, even when she almost completely lost her memory, she can still follow me in humming her favorite hymn, and can recite all the verses in Psalms 23, 103, 131.\u00a0 I really felt that, if the couple were in one accord, then they would become a help in the service; if the couple were not in one accord, then they would become obstacles in the service.\u00a0 I am really grateful of my wife, she is a hardworking, gentle wife, that helped me a lot.\u00a0 Proverbs 19:14 says, \u201cHouse and wealth are an inheritance from fathers, But a prudent wife is from Jehovah.\u201d\u00a0 It is true, God prepared a good wife for me, I am sincerely grateful of Him.<\/p>\n<\/div> \u00a0Previous<\/a>\u00a0\u2022 Contents<\/a>\u00a0\u2022\u00a0Next<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>Chapter 12: My Marriage<\/h2>\n