.... missionary, Don Richardson.
.... Richardson has recorded some of
these stories in a book mentioned below. Numbers in brackets
refer to page numbers from that book.
For hundreds or even thousands of years, the Wa people in Burma had told children of
their very old belief that one day a ‘white brother’ would bring them a copy of the
book about God that they had lost. In the 1880’s, Pu Chan, one of their
tribesmen, caused several thousand of his people to stop killing people
and worshipping evil spirits. He said the true God would soon send the
'white brother with a copy of the lost book' that their whole tribe had been
waiting for. He told them that if the brother learnt that the Wa people were
doing evil things, he might not give them the book of the true God.
One morning Pu Chan got ready a Wa pony, and told some of those who believed
him to follow the pony. He said that the true God had told him that
at last the white brother was near. God would cause the pony to lead them
to him. The pony started walking. Surely it would simply stop at the nearest
stream. To the disciples’ great surprise, it kept going. On and on it went
for about 200 miles over mountain trails and down into the city of Kengtung,
then turned into the gate of a missionary’s place and headed straight for a
well in the ground. The people following the pony looked all around. No
white man. No book. Hearing sounds in the well, they peered in. From the dry
well a white face smiled at them. Did he have a book from God? Yes! Before
long about 10,000 Wa people had given their lives to Jesus. (87, 102-104)
Source:Numbers in brackets refer to page numbers in Don Richardson: Eternity in their Hearts Revised Edition CA, Regal, 1981, 1984
Amazing examples from around the world of God working in the lives of
heathen (non-Christian) peoples and preparing them, often hundreds of years
ahead of time, for the coming of Christianity.
An amazing pony