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H Ironside excerpt from Notes of the Gospel of John:
You have heard of the poor man who fell into the water.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

And now the excerpt from Watchman Nee: "One summer I was preaching the gospel in the villages with over twenty brothers. The weather was hot, and we could not take our bath indoors. Therefore, we all went to the river to take our bath. While a few brothers were swimming, one brother had a cramp and began to drown. He kicked his limbs frantically and shouted for help. One of the brothers among us was Wei-san Wang, who was very good at swimming. He had served in the navy. I urged him to quickly jump into the water to save the drowning brother. Yet he stood in the same place and would not move. I was quite desperate and somewhat angry at him for loving his own life so much.
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Originally Posted by HERn

Well, preachers have been known to appropriate others’ stories and examples without attribution; so probably no foul in this example.

Originally Posted by gr8ful

The standard of plagiarism doesn't apply as strictly to such uses, one could argue -- there is a lot of "borrowing" among Christian teachers... Anyway, I don't think there's a scandal that W Nee used sources from others in his ministry

From the quotes above, we can see that G. H. Lang properly appropriated the story to an unnamed source, in order to make a point about the gospel.

WN, however, made the story all about him, apparently fabricating it into a "real life" story about 20 brothers swimming in a river. I'm not buying the story. It sounds bogus. It doesn't pass the smell test. Think this story through, folks. Reminds me of so many politicians and reporters who are prone to embellishing their stories of "battlefield danger."

Who cannot take baths because it's too hot inside? Take a cool shower -- that's what guys do! Who drowns taking a bath in a river? Surrounded by 19 brothers? All shampooing while Navy Bro watches? Balderdash! How many other stories from WN and WL are like this one?