"When I was a boy in China, I went occasionally to the little church in my hometown to listen to the Gospel. . . . After arriving in America . . . my cousin, a devout Christian, urged me to attend church regularly to study the Christian faith. In the year 1917, I left New York for Norfolk, Virginia, and regularly attended the Chinese Sunday school of an Anglo Baptist church. . . . I was converted and baptized a few months later."

Hong Fon Ligh [quoted in the dedication issue of Houston’s Chinese Baptist Church publication. Houston, September 23, 1962] entered the U.S. in 1911, eventually coming to Texas. This is a typical connection with the church in the U.S.

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