Posted on 12/08/2020 7:17:37 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1934, Chinese Communists beheaded John and Betty Stam in the Anhui province town of Miaoshu. The Stams had settled as China Inland Mission proselytizers in the town of Jingde (at their time generally rendered as “Tsingteh”). Betty Stam (nee Scott) had grown up in China, the daughter of a Presbyterian missionary. John was a New Jersey native who had graduated Moody Bible Institute in 1932. They had a three-month-old daughter named Helen Priscilla. On December 6, 1934, Communist rebels in China’s long-running civil war entered Jingde and seized the foreign family. According to a tribute page kept by a great-nephew of the, John wrote a short note that evening...
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..of whom the world was not worthy...
That is a fascinating and inspiring story. Do you know what happened to the daughter- she would be in her late eighties now.
Reminds me of scenes from the movie “The Sand Pebbles”.
Are we actually ready to take a stand for the Truth? These righteous souls are watching us! May we be worthy of their example.
This should not be in “executed today”. It should be in “murdered today”.
yep
I first read about the Stams in the autobiographical book....A Foreign Devil in China: The story of L Nelson Bell
Dr. Bell is Billy Graham’s Father in law....
.....Ruth Bell Graham’s father
She too grew up in China as a missionary child
The Stam story stayed with me.......
....from every indication those in charge ( relatives) of the baby after she was rescued were very protective of her and when she came of age she chose to live quietly and not discuss her parent’s deaths.
My grandfather was a missionary in Hunan province. Thankfully, he got out early and said never trust the Chinese commies! They will smile and be your friend right up to the day they slit your throat l!
Bkmk China
Nothing has changed except that Obama and Biden love the Red Chinese genocidalists TODAY.
To All: Go online and see if you can find “The Human Cost of Communism in China” 1972, Prof. Richard Walker”, and “The Human Cost of Communism in Russia”, 1971, Robert Conquest, Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, Senate Judiciary Committee and “The Human Cost of Communism in Vietnam”, 1972, SISS, ed. David Martin and myself.
These three publications will teach you all you need to know about Marxism, Communism, and ideological genocide.
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