Pastor Hong Zijie and his wife, c. 1915, probably taken in Shantao.
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Zijie Hong Generous Adventist Pioneer
The following article is drawn from two entries by the same author in the Encyclopedia of Seventh-day Adventists. Visit encyclopedia.adventist.org to read the original stories on Ang Tau Kiet and J. N. Anderson.—Editors.
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ijie Hong (洪子杰), also known as Ang Tau Kiet, was the second indigenous Chinese Seventh-day Adventist minister ordained in China. He pioneered Adventism in the southeastern Chinese regions of Guangdong and Fujian. Hong was born in 1864 in Baita district, Liaoyang City, China. Before his conversion to Christianity, he was 24
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a county official near Shantou, Guangdong province. When he joined the Baptist Church, he became an ordained elder in charge of an independent congregation in the town of Chiao-on in eastern Guangdong.1 One day Hong met a man named Guo Ziying and through their conversation became interested in the Adventist message. According to Hong’s family,2 Guo had learned about the Sabbath from Timothy Zheng, an Adventist from Singapore. Wanting to understand more about the Sabbath, Guo traveled by boat to consult with Jacob Nelson Anderson, an Adventist missionary. Photo: Adventism in China Digital Image Repository Background: Preto_perola / iStock / Getty Images Plus / Getty Images
