"On 1 October 1934, while returning from a prayer conference with his wife and other missionaries, China Inland Mission missionary Alfred Bosshardt was captured in Guizhou by Red Army soldiers under General Xiao Ke. His wife was later released, but he and his New Zealand colleague Arnolis Hayman were forced to go with the army on what became the Long March; he trudged some 2,500 miles over eighteen months and was released on Easter morning 1936, after 560 days. His account of the captivity was titled The Restraining Hand, the title indicating the divine restraint on his captors."
— Wikipedia; Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity
Source: Wikipedia, "Rudolf Alfred Bosshardt"; BDCC, "Bosshardt, Rudolf Alfred" (bdcconline.net)
Chains, humanity, body, soul, freedom, hope, eternity
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"Huang Naishang (Wong Nai Siong, 1844–1924), of Minqing, Fujian, was baptized in the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1866. He later helped the missionaries translate the Bible and from 1874 was the key helper on their Chinese paper Zion's Messenger, where he wrote for smallpox vaccination and against foot-binding. In 1896 he used his own funds to launch Fubao, the first newspaper started by a Chinese in Fujian, which closed after a year for lack of money. He held his faith to the end: on his deathbed he asked his wife to hold up a picture of Christ and lay it on his chest, and he died on 22 September 1924."
— Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity
Source: BDCC, "Huang Naishang" by John Barwick (bdcconline.net)
Salvation, public enlightenment, newspapers, gospel, truth, education of the people
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"I just want to say right now that any day in which work is not done for Christ is wasted. Moreover, I'm a fool for letting such days be—for they are not pleasant."
— William Whiting Borden
Source: Letter of 10 February 1907, in Mrs. Howard Taylor, Borden of Yale '09: "The Life That Counts" (1926)
A lifetime, China, life, wheat, dedication, life
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"Speaking plainly we hope to see, in the near future, a united Christian Church without any denominational distinctions. ... Speaking generally, denominationalism has never interested the Chinese mind. He finds no delight in it, but sometimes he suffers for it! ... China, with all her imperfections, is a country that loves unity both in national and family life."
— Cheng Jingyi
Source: Address at the World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh, 21 June 1910 (Report of Commission VIII, Discussion)
Denomination, Chinese Church, Schism, History, Christ, Family, Unity
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"Pastor Ding Limei (1871–1936) always laid great emphasis on prayer and always carried a little notebook with him. In the last two years of his life, stricken with liver cancer, he stayed at home and gave his time to prayer and writing, praying earnestly for the church and for all people. At his death there were three such notebooks, holding the names of some five thousand people for whom he had prayed individually."
— Yading Li, Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity (BDCC)
Source: "Ding Limei," Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity (bdcconline.net), based on Scott W. Sunquist, ed., A Dictionary of Asian Christianity (Eerdmans, 2001), 244–245
Time, transportation, intercessory prayer, China, status
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"Wang Mingdao (1900–1991) had no theological education; his Bible-grounded preaching stressed repentance, conversion, holiness, purity and truth, and his Christian Tabernacle in Beijing baptized no one who had not shown real fruits of salvation. Arrested in 1955, he for a time signed a confession against his conscience; released with a grieved conscience, he revoked it in 1958 and was at once returned to prison, not to be freed until the end of 1979. From then on he set himself a standard of absolute honesty, resolving that it was better to die in prison than to lie."
— Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity (BDCC)
Source: BDCC, "Wang Mingdao (Revised and Updated)" by Yading Li, bdcconline.net
People, talent, reputation, knowledge, holiness, reverence, value
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