- Policemen Raid Gohng-shin’s House at Dawn
- 1 On the evening of December 25, Sahng-jeh-nim ordered Gohng-shin and the others at Gyung-su’s house to extinguish the lights and go to sleep early. Sahng-jeh-nim slept in a separate room.
- 2 At dawn, dozens of armed policemen circled Gohng-shin’s house, seized the disciples, and bound them. They demanded to know where Sahng-jeh-nim was.
- 3 The disciples now realized the meaning of Sahng-jeh-nim’s orders and told the police that He was at Shin Gyung-su’s house.
- 4 The police ran over to where Sahng-jeh-nim was staying. One of them thrust his rifle through the paper screen door of Sahng-jeh-nim’s room and shouted, “Out! All of you!”
- 5 Sahng-jeh-nim grabbed hold of the barrel of the rifle and said, “Let it go.”
Overwhelmed by Sahng-jeh-nim’s qi, the policeman said politely, “Please, You should let it go.”
- 6 “Didn’t you hear Me!” Sahng-jeh-nim shouted. “Let it go right now!”
- 7 They argued for a long time. Meanwhile, another policeman was looking for Gohng-shin. When Gohng-shin came out of the other room, the policemen seized and bound him. Sahng-jeh-nim and all the others were also arrested under suspicion of belonging to an armed resistance.
- 8 Finding the money in a room, the policemen confiscated it along with a couple of rolls of cotton fabric, saying that everything must have been stolen.
- (JSD Dojeon 5,152)
