Funeral Meeting for Samuel Chang

At the funeral meeting for Samuel Chang, November 20, 1984, Witness Lee gave the following:

I first met Brother Chang in 1933. He had a real turn to the Lord in 1954. In 1956, because of the emphasis he had come to place on the church life, there was a real turn in his entire Christian life. When I met him in 1958 in Hong Kong, he asked me, “Should I go to America? Where would be the proper place if I were to go?” I said that he should go to Los Angeles.

The next year, Samuel Chang and Sister Chang went first to Denver and then to Los Angeles (July 1959). In 1960, I went to Los Angeles. At that time, I realized that Samuel Chang was so clear, so definite, and so absolute for the Lord’s recovery and especially for the church ground. In 1961, I went back to the United States. By the end of November 1962, I was so clear not to go back to the Far East, but I first called Brother Chang. He opened his home and he and his family were one thousand per cent for the Lord. He spent every cent for the Lord’s recovery. It was through him that the foundation for the Lord’s recovery was laid. They, both Brother Chang and his family, were absolutely for the Lord’s recovery.

I never saw a brother so steady according to what he saw and taught others.

He saw the ground of the church and stood for this. He lived a life according to what he saw. It was while Sister Chang was helping a sister that she passed away. I never saw a brother so steady according to what he saw and taught others. There was a power, a divine authority in what he said. All the churches in the United States owe him so much.

I went to see Brother Chang in the hospital. When I came back home last Thursday, my wife called Daniel [Brother Chang’s son]. By midnight on Friday, he rested in the Lord (November 17, 1984). He was so much one with me. Both he and James Barber are victors in the Lord. We are encouraged by their example.

(The above account is from verbatim notes taken by the author.)

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