responsible. The last seven days are for edifying, and Brother Chung Chieh is
Your brother, Witness Lee August 17 P.S. Brother T'ien P'ing Fang returned to Ch'ang-ch'un on August 10. Brother T'ien Hsin Wu is still in Chefoo. Brother Chang Tze Chieh went to Tsingtao on the same day. Brother Luan went to Ch'ang-ch'un yesterday or the day before. He will return south on the Pei-ning and the P'ing-hu lines. Brother Chung Chieh sent a card saying that they are having a ten-day conference beginning August 16. The first three days are for preaching the gospel, and another brother is responsible. The last seven days are for edifying, and Brother Chung Chieh is responsible. Please pray for this. Your Brother
THE SECOND LETTER FROM MISS RUTH LEE (Please see the note before the first letter.) Greetings to the brothers in the Lord, Mr. Watchman and Mr. Witness: I think you have already received the letter I sent on July 13. I have already completed one stage of the work here (please see my letter to the sisters for the details). Tomorrow I will go to Kung Yi Pu (about ten miles from here) because there are more than ten sisters there. On August 6 I will go to Kwangchow. I have made the arrangements for my trip to Hong Kong for August 11. From August 13 to 17, I will have a Bible study with the sisters in Hong Kong. This is a good place to work. Transportation is very convenient. If someone wanted to preach the gospel, he would have many opportunities. Brother T'ang is a pure brother. But there is still a question as to whether or not he has really been called to do full-time work. Perhaps he will have to find a job in the future. Perhaps he is still waiting. The brothers in the country do not have much knowledge about how to meet. There are two reasons for this: They lack spiritual edification, so they do not understand how to touch and follow the leading of the Holy Spirit in the meeting. There is also no one to train them. They are often wrong even in the matter of applying the hymns in the Little Flock Hymnal. They cannot be blamed for this. Therefore, I hope that something concerning the truth of the church (the gospel also, because it is the foundation) can be published soon. The formal version of the Little Flock Hymnal needs to be published soon with an explanation of what
kind of hymn should be sung at what time so that this habit does not become so set that it cannot be changed. Many things cannot be clearly understood unless one sees it with his own eyes. Therefore, I hope that the responsible brothers in the work will go to each locality to see for themselves when they have the opportunity. Then they will know the true shortcomings, needs, and strong points of every place and will be able to bear the responsibility to pray and help. I feel even more that the gifted brothers and sisters should remember the entire church in the future. Once a meeting has been established for one or two years, the gifted brothers should not just sit in the same old place. If they do not travel, one locality will constantly improve while other places will never receive help or gain sinners for the Lord. The publication is only good for some people. Many brothers and sisters need a face-to-face explanation. Therefore, every meeting place should have some who can speak directly to the congregation. I really feel that the workers should come from the apprentices and not the schools. Those who were apprentices have assurance when they are working, while the students are prone to become idealistic. It is difficult to say when I will return to Shanghai. (I am waiting for a letter from the co-working sisters before I will know.) During this time I have been praying that God would direct me concerning my path in the near future. Perhaps I will not be able to give myself to the publication work this year but will visit more places where there are sisters but which have no one to work among them. Therefore, I can only ask Mr. Witness to continue working on Collection of Newsletters. Thank God! There are more and more brothers in Shanghai now. May God choose more brothers to be co-workers in the literature work. May God bless you. From, Ruth Lee July 31 in Kung Ho City, Taishan
THE RECENT NEWS FROM BROTHER HAN FU SHENG Brother Nee: The edification which the children of God received at the last Overcomers' Conference seems to be more than they received in the two previous conferences. Glory, praise, and thanks be to the God of blessing. Amen.
Not long after I returned from the conference, my eldest child died of tuberculosis. Although at first it broke my heart, thank the Lord; He breaks and then bandages, wounds and then heals, with His hands. Through this fiery trial, the truths I had newly received have become my experience. Praise the Lord! When I was in Shanghai, I told you a little about the way I had been going for the past few years. But now the Lord's light has given me great enlightenment. Woe to me if I continue to disobey! At first I did not want to tell you what I had passed through. However, I can be silent no longer, because I need those who are in one accord with me to pray for me and instruct me. I had a little knowledge about the denominations for quite some time, but because there are still a few faithful lovers of the Lord in the denominations, I really could not bear to separate from them (actually, it was not being separated from the brothers but from the denominations)! I was also slow to obey because I saw some who had left the denominations become a "I am of Christ" sect. They look on the brothers in the denominations like the Jews look at the Samaritans. If this is the case, the more they leave the denominations, the more denominations there will be. Therefore, I thought it would be better to "change the denominations" than to "leave the denominations." What is more, I could avoid many sufferings of the cross! Last year I agreed to accept a job with the Chen Chiang Baptist Church. I was a preacher. I did not agree to being a pastor. This year Mr. Ma of the mission board returned to his own country. He wanted to hand over the control of the church to me. So I did my best to explain my idea of reforming the denominations. After many debates, I finally saw the characteristics of the denominations and knew them clearly to the core. At this point, I woke up and realized that I could only leave the denominations; they will never be dissolved. The command in the Bible is to "come out." My idea to reform the denominations was really absurd! I boldly and decisively announced that I was leaving the denominations during the last week of May. In the first week of June, I had the first table meeting in my home. Sister Liu and Sister Liang came from the Chi Lu Medical School in Tsinan. They are now working as nurses in the Christian hospital here. They have much light of the truth, and they encouraged me very much! Step by step the Lord Himself led us to have a meeting in the Lord's name in Chen Chiang. We few were held fast by the Lord.
The news of our table meeting spread through all the denominations that very same day. They were so afraid of such a little matter that they created a storm in the whole city. I heard that they had emergency meetings on both Monday and Tuesday. Their first step was to forbid the two sisters working in the hospital to come to our meetings. If they did not receive the exhortations, the sisters would lose their jobs. Their second step was a plan to "deflect the tiger from the mountain." They tried to tempt me to leave Chen Chiang. I told the representatives they sent that I was not interested in any profit. If the Lord ordered me to stay here, I would not leave even if I would die! As of this minute, storms attacking us have not stopped. We have had the table meeting six times. Every one likes to linger around the Lord's table. There are four or five sisters and two or three brothers in every meeting. Unfortunately, the brothers are still milk-drinkers. They cannot bear any responsibility. I am extremely lonely now. We hope the Lord will give us a place to preach the gospel soon. It is not very convenient to have the table meeting on a mountain either. We would like to know whether or not our gospel hall could have a name like Gospel Chapel, Jesus Chapel, Testimony Chapel, or Preaching Hall. It seems that it is very difficult to attract outsiders to come hear a message in a place without a name. How should we baptize a seventy-year-old person who cannot go all the way into the water? Some people kneel in the water to be baptized; then the baptizer pushes them forward and immediately helps them up. Is this the proper way? May you be blessed. Your brother in the Lord, Han Fu Sheng June 12, under the lamp P.S. How has your health been? I think of you often. Note from Watchman: The Lord has really worked in every place to bring many of His faithful children into the way of obedience. We thank Him! We really praise the Lord for our Brother Han. With regard to whether or not their meeting is "standing on the ground of the church" or whether they know what the Body life is or whether they are expressing this life in a locality, I do not think we should make any hasty judgment. We should thank God for them. I think that in the future, it would be best if some of us went to visit people like Brother Han that are raised up in a certain place. Perhaps we can write letters to help them see that leaving the denominations is only negative and is not worth anything; they must
also express the Body life on the positive side and stand on the ground of a local church. Perhaps they will misunderstand our reasons for pursuing this. But if they do not receive this vision, we cannot go to fellowship with them, nor can we recognize their table as the table that God has established in the locality. However, when they understand these matters, they will see that we are right. This is God's requirement. May those who leave the denominations not think that they can be loose because everyone else is lawless.
WITH REGARD TO IDOLS AND MILITIAS To the brother in the Lord, Mr. Kuang Hsiung: After leaving Shanghai, I have often thought about the grace the Third Overcomer Conference gave us. We thank the Lord. We hope that our work increases in light and in a deeper obedience. There are twelve places with meetings in the P'ing Yang region of Chekiang province. There are twenty-one localities in Tai Shun and five in the Fu Ting region of Fukien province. In my prayer over the past few years, I have had the hope of taking a trip through Tai Shun. I had the opportunity to do so in March of this year. On March 17 I arrived in Ya Yang Hu Wei in Tai Shun and stayed there for four weeks. I held a conference for five days. Brother Lai Kun Ho translated for me because I spoke a different dialect. We also had a meeting concerning the needs of the work of the church. Brother Huang Lu Ch'uan also attended the meeting. I do not have time to write an article about the condition of the work and its results. If the Lord is willing, in the near future I will do my best to write something and to fellowship about the gifts from the Lord and how they edify and render help for people concerning their gifts from the Lord. There is a question now concerning the Lord's table and the sin of idolatry. If I have answered it well, please publish my answer in Collection of Newsletters with a note so that people can be helped even more. The idols are very strong in the locality where I am presently. May the Lord bless all those in Him to be victorious through Him and to glorify His name! Enclosed please find the questions and answers. Peace in the Lord! Your little brother in the Lord, Wang Yu T'ing April 27 Question:A believer has a common inheritance with an unbeliever in an idol temple. When the year of temple duty falls on that believer, is it all right for him to
stay home and prepare the feast for the others, even if he does not worship the idols? Answer:No. If the believer does this he has touched the sin of worshipping idols. The source of the feast is the feast of demons. It is a matter of worshipping idols, and believers should flee from it (1 Cor. 10:14). Believers and unbelievers should not be dissimilarly yoked (2 Cor. 6:14). We must come out from their midst (v. 17). This is what the Almighty Lord has said. Question:A believer and unbelievers have a common inheritance with the family grave in it. In the year that the unbelievers take care of the grave, they sacrifice to the demons, and the believers attend their feast. In the year that the believers care for the grave, they do not sacrifice to the demons. The unbelievers take care of the sacrifice themselves, while the believers prepare the feast for them at home. What do you think of this arrangement? Answer:If the believers do this, they have also committed the sin of worshipping idols. The Bible has very clear teachings about this. The Bible completely separates the table of demons and the table of men. If it is a table of demons (1 Cor. 10:14-22), whatever is on the table, even if it has not been sacrificed to the demons, becomes part of the demonic feast once it is placed on the table. A table of men, like the table at a banquet or a wedding feast, may have food that has been sacrificed to idols, yet it is still part of the banquet or wedding feast. It is not part of a demonic feast, and there is no sin of idolatry involved. Hence, we can partake of it. With regard to whether or not a believer should prepare a feast in conjunction with rituals at the family grave or participate in the cup of such a feast, the most important point he must ask himself is whether or not this feast of the grave ritual is a demonic feast! If the source is a demonic feast, we are eating and drinking of the table of demons, and what we prepare is also a demonic feast. If we do this, we will incur the Lord's wrath and cannot drink the cup of the Lord (v. 21). Question:If a brother has a large common inheritance containing many graves that require sacrifices, what should he do? Answer:If the brother is to take his rightful share, the parties involved must agree: (1) to give the brother his share separately; (2) that when it is the brother's turn to care for the graves, he does not sacrifice anything, nor does he spread a demonic feast. If they are willing to let these matters rest, then the brother can take his inheritance. If he cannot avoid sacrificing to demons or preparing a demonic feast, he should choose rather to give it up even if the inheritance is the
whole world. Incidentally, trying to settle the matter in court is also a damage to the Lord's glory.
Question:If a believer's wife does not believe and the believer allows her to prepare the demonic feast when it is their turn to care for the family worship of demons, or if a believer's father and mother are not believers and he cannot stop them from worshipping demons, does the believer have a part in either of these two sins of idolatry? Answer:The husband is the head of the wife. The wife should obey the husband. If the husband allows her to sin, it is as if he had sinned himself. Children should obey their parents and not control them. The children cannot be held accountable for the parents' sin in worshipping idols. The two stand in different positions (Eph. 5:22; 6:1). However, the believer should stay far away from matters of idolatry (demonic feasts). Mr. Nee, please read through the answers to these questions about idols and publish them in Collection of Newsletters. The local government here has recently set up a militia. Can the believers refuse to join it? It is a matter of law. I hope you will study this and give us some advice. Greetings to Mr. Chang Kuang Hsiung. Additional Note from Wang Yu T'ing Note from Watchman: Brother Wang's answers concerning the matter of idols are very correct. We believers should keep ourselves from doing these things which bring on the Lord's wrath. I deeply believe that even if we lose something of a worldly inheritance, God will bless us. Read Hebrews 13:5-6. With regard to the matter of the militia, we must remember: (1) We should obey those with authority over us (Rom. 13:1); (2) we cannot kill, even in war (Matt. 26:52). Therefore, when our country organizes a militia, we cannot disobey. However, we cannot go to war for any reason. Therefore, I think: (1) If they require us to be trained, we can go; but when there is a war, we cannot fight. (2) Our training invariably leads to conscription so that when there is a war, we will be forced to go against our will. It would be better for us to not attend the training at all. (3) If we believers cannot obey the authority by fulfilling the law, then we should obey our country by accepting the punishment. They may have a severe penalty
of a jail sentence or a fine for those who do not enter the militia, but we should obey them in this matter. Brothers, we must be faithful unto death. We should not procrastinate in regard to our testimony for the truth. A LETTER FROM BROTHER LUKE HSUAN Brother Tu: I have enclosed the draft of a letter I wrote recently for the purpose of leaving the denominations. Please look it over and notify the responsible brothers or all the brothers so that they will know that I am definitely walking in the same way with you. May the Almighty Lord lead me, as a weak and useless little lamb, to go on, and may He cover and protect me until He comes. May the Lord bless you! Your little brother in the Lord, Luke Hsuan July 23 Mr. Pastor and the saints called in grace together by the Lord: After being called in grace by the Lord, He enlightened me to know that a Christian is already in His name and cannot take on another name (i.e., Anglican). For example, a wife cannot add another man's name on to her husband's name. If she does this, what kind of woman is she? In addition, the Lord has shown us how much the denominations have deviated from the clear teachings of the Bible. He hates: (1) divisions (1 Cor. 1:10-13); (2) the flesh, which is according to the fashion of the world (3:3-5); and (3) factions, works of the flesh (Gal. 5:19-20). In order to obey the Lord, I have especially written this letter to ask you to strike my name from your record. From now on I have no relationship with the Anglican Church. Perhaps you will not agree with this action, but I still hope that you will be noble Bereans and search the Scripture to see whether or not this doctrine is right. May the Almighty Lord bless you personally. Amen. A Christian, Hsuan Hsiang Pao I believed and was baptized in 1927 under the name of Hsiang Pao or Ling Sheng.
RECENT NEWS FROM THE CHURCH IN SU CHIA TSUI, NORTHERN KIANGSU To the brothers and sisters in the Lord:
We greet you in the Lord. May the Lord keep you as He keeps us. The situation in northern Kiangsu is not very peaceful (because there are bandits causing trouble everywhere). The hearts of the people are fearful and worried, so in our locality (Su Chia Tsui) we have a meeting every afternoon to pray for this situation. Last night while we were sleeping, we suddenly heard rapid gunfire at about 2:00 in the morning. There were twenty or thirty bandits who stormed the streets firing their guns and breaking down doors. They were very fierce. (At that time we could only pray quietly before God.) The police and militia in our town could not hold them off, so the bandits plundered from door to door. When they left, they took thirty to forty women, old folk, and children with them. When the dawn broke, they went to the northeast. Thank the Lord, He preserved us in this situation and answered our prayer. None of the houses of the believing brothers and sisters in this town met with danger. All were blessed by the Lord with peace. Please do not worry. We thank Him a thousand times, even ten thousand times. May the grace of the Lord be constantly with us all. Amen. From, the church in Su Chia Tsui, northern Kiangsu (Note from Watchman: There is no denomination in Su Chia Tsui, so they can call themselves the church in Su Chia Tsui. Localities with denominations cannot do this.) A LETTER FROM BROTHER WANG K'AI SEN (See the answer to this letter in the preceding issue) Peace in the Lord to Mr. Watchman: Last year the Lord gave me a special opportunity to meet you and talk at length with you. I really gained a great benefit from it. I have already told you something of the situation at Li gospel hall. I think you still remember. You exhorted me to bear the responsibility to deal with them and openly discuss their most important errors. After I left I told Brother Chang Chia Chi about your exhortation in detail. The two of us specifically prayed in one accord for this matter and asked for God's leading. If it was according to God's will, we were going to leave the gospel hall. We wanted to obey no matter what the cost. I recently learned from a Western brother the results of your work in England last year. He said that a new doctrine had been discovered which caused many churches in England to divide. He said that this doctrine had already spread to the gospel hall in Singapore. He told us to guard against it watchfully. He also said that the doctrines you preached in England had already been published in English. We were very
happy. Praise the Lord for His victory. But the Western brothers in Singapore already knew that our faith was not the same as theirs, so they paid careful attention to the messages we preached in the gospel hall. Three weeks ago, they made an appointment with Brother Chang and myself to have an open discussion with them. They said that Brother Chang's preaching about unwatchful Christians being punished and thrown into a place in the outer darkness to weep and gnash their teeth was a false doctrine. They said that Matthew 24 and 25 both refer to the Jews and have nothing to do with the believers. They said we were the children of God, not His servants. They said this preaching nullified the accomplishment of the cross and would cause the brothers in the gospel hall to stumble. Then they quoted Romans 8:1, saying that a believer would never be condemned again. Although I refuted them with some questions, they answered wildly according to their own will. We did not want to argue with them and could only prepare to withdraw from them. We have now stopped meeting at the gospel hall, but we have not clearly stated the reason we cannot join with them again. I am writing this letter so that you will know what has happened. You thoroughly know the content of the Brethren Church. Please tell us the details of the evidence that proves they are a denomination so that the next time we meet with them for an open discussion, we will be able to deal with and prove their many errors. Then we will be finished with this matter, and our hearts will have peace. This is a very important matter. It is best if you could spare some time to answer this letter no matter how busy you are with your work for the Lord. I am waiting for your answer. May you have peace that surpasses understanding. Greetings to the brothers and sisters in the Lord in Shanghai. Your brother in the Lord, Wang K'ai Sen April 24, 1934 Please ask them to remember to pray for us.
COLLECTION OF NEWS FROM TAI SHUN, CHEKIANG PROVINCE Tai Shun is one of the five counties in Wenchow. P'ing Yang is its neighbor on the east. It is bordered on the south by Fu Ting (T'ung Shan), Fukien province, and it is joined to Shou Ning on the west. It touches Jui An. Its topography is very mountainous. The standard of living of the people is very simple. Transportation is not very convenient, so the gospel has not been preached as quickly as it was
in P'ing Yang. The region is divided into two townships. To the north is Yi Yu Township; the denominations were established there a long time ago. To the south is Kuei Jen Township; it has twenty-four meeting places in the Lord's name. However, of these twenty-four, ten used to be with the China Inland Mission. The other fourteen left the denominations and then separated or were established after the brothers preached the gospel and brought people to believe. I will now describe how and why they left the denominations so that the brothers and sisters who are members together with us can know. Brother Lai was the first one enlightened by the Lord to see that the denominational system was not according to the Bible. Nevertheless, he did not do anything immediately because he was the only one standing. He was led by the Lord to attend the first conference in Shanghai, and he received great help from the brothers during this conference. When he returned home, he boldly testified for the Lord in the two places of Chi Tan and Hu Wei in Ya Yang (name of the area). Some of the listeners at that time were surprised, and some opposed, secretly resisted, or spread rumors behind his back. They suffered all kinds of misunderstandings, criticisms, and difficulties and were even called "The Little Flock," "Watchman Nee's Group," or "Spiritual Group" along with some other names. But thank the Lord, praise God that in this situation the Lord still used His love and powerful arm to snatch a few sticks out of the fire. They were Chang Yung Chiu, Lee Pang Ch'uan, Wang Piao Chiu, Wu Hsien Ch'uan, and Ho Teng K'ai. Because they had just come out, they had difficulty finding a meeting place for rent on such short notice. They temporarily borrowed the upstairs of Brother Lai's old house. Although the room was small and there weren't many people, the Lord was with them. They were very joyful in the deepest part of their spirits. From that time on the Lord graced them often. Later the Lord did some work through this small number of brothers and also worked in the denominations. The Lord gradually opened their eyes and resolved their misunderstandings. It was not long before all the brothers and sisters in the churches in Ya Yang were like hibernating creatures who awake after a thunderclap in the spring. They had been shaken, and there was a strong revival. Therefore, they publicly announced to the denominations that they were leaving. The rest of the places were still in the realm of and under the control of the China Inland Mission: Nan Hsi (Sze Hsi), Ke Ling, Ts'ai Chai, Hsiu Hsi, Hsiu Hsi Pien, Ying Pien. This was the first church in Kuei Jen Township to leave the
denominations, and it was the principal cause in the raising up of meetings in this region. In 1925 The Christian was published. Through the light in The Christian, the Lord opened the eyes of the brothers in Hsiu Hsi, T'o Ti, Ying Pien, Ts'ai Chai, and other places. They too saw that in too many matters the denominations did not match the Bible. However, they were not completely clear about the truth of the church at that time. Therefore, they hoped to do an improving work from within. Although Brother Chen Ch'ing Fa was among them at the time and helped them quite a bit with his work, the time was not ripe, and the co-workers were not one. There were also people who were doing a damaging work among them. Those in the group who were for keeping the denominations rose to oppose. Later Brother Chen moved back to his home town, but he was alone and brave in leaving! He alone resigned from his position with the denomination. He was the first person to formally leave the China Inland Mission in P'ing Yang, and he was also our pioneer in obeying the Lord by leaving the denominations. Later, there was a meeting in Ch'iao Tun Men. God came in from another angle by leading old Mr. Ts'ai Chi Ch'ing and Brother Mao Ch'ing Shih of Hsiu Hsi to attend some meetings there. Through Brother Wang Yu T'ing's messages, they were touched. Although they had a doubting, questioning attitude during the first few days, by the end, their problems completely melted away and they obeyed happily. When they went home, they encouraged the brothers in Hsiu Hsi, T'o Ti, and other places to leave the denominations. This was the second principal cause in the meetings being raised up in the region. According to the regulations of the China Inland Mission in P'ing Yang and Tai Shun, there were four meetings for teachers every year. There was also one large general meeting and one small general meeting. In the teacher's meeting, the teachers were divided into four levels, A through D. P'ing Yang and Tai Shun had their own small general meeting. The small general meeting for Tai Shun alternated between Yi Yu Township and Kuei Jen Township. The methods were full of man's will. It is difficult to describe in detail. In the large general meeting, P'ing Yang and Tai Shun joined together, but the location was in P'ing Yang. Every year at the time of the large general meeting, the local meetings had to select representatives to go to it. Once there, they had to select the meeting chairman, the assistant chairman, the general treasurer, the secretary, and other positions. They also had to decide on the tenets of the faith and many other bothersome matters. There were also many things passed at the large general
meeting which the representatives from each locality had to be responsible for, such as the cost and the service. Some of the brothers had already received the Lord's enlightenment. When they attended this meeting, they went in happiness and returned in sorrow. They passed through the bitterness of grieving the Holy Spirit for several years. In 1928, in the second month of the lunar calendar, it was time for the large general meeting again. The brothers from the churches in Kuei Jen Township, Nan Hsi, Ke Ling, Ts'ai Chai, Ying Pien, etc., all went to the meeting. Brother Pao Tze Ching of Nan Hsi got up boldly in the meeting and testified for the Lord, saying that denominations were wrong. He also said that if the error was not rectified, we would not return to a meeting of that nature. When the leaders of the meeting saw the troublesome situation, they realized that there was a danger of division if they acted with a one-track mind without calling for a change. They used trickery and changed the outward appearance without changing the inward substance to bring the brothers back and mollify them. They said that in the large and small general meetings changes could be made for the better. They concluded that only the matters of administrating the teachers and the work, testing the faith of the candidates for baptism, and doing the actual baptizing had to be done by the pastors. Most of the brothers there were confused about the truth concerning the church, so they agreed to this method. Later, the leaders sent Mr. Chen Fang to Nan Hsi (Sze Hsi). In this way, we had partially left the denominations and were partially going along in the Lord's way for another two years. Nevertheless, thank God and praise the Lord because God's work is immeasurably marvelous! Although Mr. Chen Fang was sent by the denomination to Nan Hsi, he not only refused to preserve the denomination by being their faithful servant, but he humbly received the truth as soon as he arrived in Nan Hsi. Day by day he obeyed more and more until he finally completely obeyed. He was like this with respect to the truth and with respect to his needs. He did not look to the mission board but completely relied on Jehovah. When it was time for the large and small general meetings, he did not take part in them, nor did he attend the meetings. Therefore, in 1930, all the meeting places in the church in Kuei Jen Township completely left the denominations and broke off their relationship with them, with the exception of a few who wanted to preserve the denominations (they do not meet any longer). Later Mr. Chen Fang escaped to his home town because a gang went on a wild rampage and began to cause problems. This was the third principal cause of the brothers in Tai Shun turning from the denominations.