You should not have concepts when you witness to people. Even if you are dealing with an unworthy person, by displaying the level of sympathy that could not be found in this world, you can rise to a high position of heart. There is something that I cannot forget even today, and when I go to the vicinities of the No-Ryang area, the memories come alive. I used to live in Heuk-Sek Dong, and at the border with Sang-Do Dong there are many pine trees and a little ways off from it there is a Japanese-style house where a garden was nicely kept. If you go around it, then there is a rice field, and on the opposite side of that there is a village, and at that place there is a house where I used to go during the pioneering witnessing campaign. Once there was a sick person lying on the road whom I had never seen before. That was about the end of March. That was the time that I was carrying the tuition for the new semester which had just begun. As I observed him closely, I realized that he was a pitiful person who did not even have a son. When he told me that he had a daughter in Chun-An, I used all of the tuition money to cure his illness and give him traveling expenses. When you look at this, it is clear that his ancestors are not bad people. At that moment, my feet were glued to the ground. I could not turn away from him. (56-39)
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