Wang Ziyuan's Belief in Returning to China

As a Christian, he wants young people to believe in Christianity, but insists on freedom of belief. Without affecting the normal teaching order, there are/kloc-0 to 2 days per semester, so please invite Jia Yuming, Kyle and other famous priests to preach to the students. Religious students hold prayer meetings every night and sometimes help religious teachers preach in nearby villages. Every Christmas, a large-scale celebration is held, and progressive songs and dramas are performed at the same time, with the large participation of nearby Christians and the masses. In order to solve the problem that there is no cathedral in the local church, with the joint efforts of parishioners, the school specially built a large classroom with four adjoining rooms (later converted into six rooms), which served as both the auditorium and classroom of the school and the local chapel. During the winter and summer vacations, a large-scale sermon will be held, which usually lasts for 7 days. Missionaries are well-known priests inside and outside the province. Sometimes there are 500 to 600 believers from all over the world. The members donated money and food, and managed their own meals. The Wang Ziyuan family made up for the deficiency and insisted on establishing a church in China that was in line with the people's feelings. Due to the prestige of the school and the revival of the local church, it attracted the attention of foreign missionaries in the mission area. They consulted Wang Ziyuan many times, hoping to link school education and church work with the poor society and give some financial assistance, but Wang Ziyuan flatly refused. He insisted that the China Church should be managed by China believers themselves, and that China's own church should be established according to the purposes of the Bible and Christianity. Christians should have national pride, and his thoughts are welcomed and supported by the majority of believers. The local church no longer contacted the church and did not invite foreign missionaries to preach, which also caused misunderstanding among missionaries in China.

1949 after the liberation of sanyuan, Wang Ziyuan unswervingly relied on and supported the * * * production party. He often said to people: "Except atheism, all the ideas of the * * * production party for the country and the people are my life's hopes and are still being realized." He earnestly studied the principles and policies of the party and the state, responded to the call of the party, and handed over Northwest A&M College and Zhenxing Middle School to the state. He took an active part in social activities. When he served as a people's juror, he went deep into mass investigation and study, so that the original murderer of a forced death case was punished as he deserved. 10 The suspect was freed and had a great influence in the local area. 1955 Member of the first CPPCC in Sanyuan County.

1950, Pastor Wu Yaozong and others launched the "Three-Self Patriotic Movement", which Wang Ziyuan supported very much. He said: "The church in China must be autonomous, self-supporting and autobiographical. My experience in running a church for more than ten years fully proves that this is the only way to revive the church in China. " After Zhenguo Middle School was nationalized, the chapel on campus was also handed over. In order to give the parishioners nearby a place to worship, he went everywhere. With the consent of the government, the local parishioners worked together to establish a four-room church and adhered to the principle of "three self-management" to run their own church. Due to the lack of missionaries, local members asked him to preside over the church, and because he was not a priest, he insisted on not preaching on stage. Therefore, in the second half of 1952, on the recommendation of his parishioners, Pastor Zhu Zhongyu appointed Wang Ziyuan as the elder, and then he officially presided over the work of the church and preached everywhere. 1959, Wang Ziyuan, with patriotism and Christian piety, was concerned about the great cause of peaceful reunification of the motherland and the difficulties of church work. He personally went to Beijing, visited Huang Yanpei, Shao Lizi and other old friends, stated the idea of peaceful liberation of Taiwan Province Province and implemented the party's religious policy, and with infinite trust in the * * * production party, he planned to write to Chairman Mao and the CPC Central Committee. An old friend told him the current situation and advised him to be cautious. After returning to Shaanxi, he still wrote an opinion and submitted it to the Central Committee. Under the influence of the ultra-left line, Wang Ziyuan was detained in the name of "protective detention" in April 1960. In prison, he firmly believed that his desire for peaceful reunification of the motherland and his opinion on implementing the party's religious policy were correct. Although imprisoned in 1962, he wrote an appeal to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China for the peaceful liberation of Taiwan Province province. Under the historical conditions at that time, his wishes could not be understood, so he often fasted and prayed. 1964 1 month 19 died in prison. From 65438 to 0978, Wang Ziyuan's unjust case was completely rehabilitated after careful review.