Xi Shengmo

Xi Shengmo

Xi Sheng Mo 席勝魔 (circa 1836-1896) also known as "Pastor Hsi", was a Chinese Christian leader. He was born "Xi Liaozhi" in a village near Linfen, became a Confucian scholar, and after his conversion to Christianity changed his given name to Shengmo or "Conqueror of Demons". Having been an opium addict himself, he ran a ministry to opium addicts in many locations over a considerable area. There is more written about Xi than any other 19th century Chinese Protestant, due largely to the two-volume biography written about him by Geraldine Taylor of the China Inland Mission.

David Hill was instrumental in introducing Xi to Christianity. After his conversion, Pastor Xi fabricated his own medications made of morphia to treat opium addicts and many sick people were brought to him for healing. Prayer was a major factor in his treatments and a number of the recoveries were considered miraculous [http://www.dustandashes.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=110&Itemid=53 "Days of Blessing Inland China"] , Chapter 12, August 1886, includes the report provided orally at two meetings by Hsi] :

:"At this time I still smoked opium. I tried to break it off by means of native medicine, but could not; by use of foreign medicine, but failed. At last I saw, in reading the New Testament, that there was a Holy Spirit who could help men. I prayed to God to give me His Holy Spirit. He did what man and medicine could not do; He enabled me to break off opium smoking. So, my friends, if you would break off opium, don’t rely on medicine, don’t lean on man, but trust to God." (Transcribed oral testimony of Xi from "Days of Blessing in Inland China")

Xi also wrote numerous Chinese Christian hymns, which were considered more to the liking of the local people than the hymns introduced by the missionaries.But perhaps the most notable thing about him was the way in which he led out in the Christian missionary work in his area. The general pattern was for Western Christians to enter an area, raise up churches and then train local people as pastors and evangelists. Xi Shengmo took hold of the work with such skill and energy that the missionaries stood aside, to a considerable extent, as he established clinics and churches.

External links

* [http://www.prayforchina.com/pro_xi_shengmo_e.htm Xi Shengmo] Biography page at Pray For China site

Bibliography

* Taylor, Mrs Howard: " [http://books.google.com/books?id=UkoaAAAAMAAJ&dq=pastor+hsi&as_brr=1 One of China's Scholars: The Culture & Conversion of a Confucianist] ". London, China Inland Mission, 1900
* Taylor, Mrs Howard: " [http://www.archive.org/download/pastorhsiofnorth00tayluoft/pastorhsiofnorth00tayluoft.pdf Pastor Hsi (of North China): One of China's Christians] ". London, China Inland Mission, 1903
* Alice Mildred Cable: "The Fulfilment of a Dream of Pastor Hsi's: The Story of the Work in Hwochow", Morgan & Scott (1917)
* Alvyn Austin: "China's Millions: The China Inland Mission and Late Qing Society, 1832-1905". Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2007.

References

ee also

*Charles Studd
*Dixon Edward Hoste

Persondata
NAME= Xi Shengmo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES= Pastor Hsi
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Chinese Christian pastor and author
DATE OF BIRTH= ca. 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH=Shanxi, China
DATE OF DEATH=1896
PLACE OF DEATH=Shanxi, China


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