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1934: John and Betty Stam, China missionaries
ExecutedToday.com ^ | December 8, 2013 | Headsman

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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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: 1934; china; executed; martyred; missionaries; stam

1 posted on 12/08/2020 7:17:37 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
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To: WalterSkinner

ping


2 posted on 12/08/2020 7:18:43 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: WalterSkinner

ping


3 posted on 12/08/2020 7:18:43 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris

..of whom the world was not worthy...


4 posted on 12/08/2020 7:38:31 PM PST by WalterSkinner (In Memory of My Father, WWII Vet 2007 , and Mom, the Best Mother Ever 2019)
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To: CheshireTheCat

That is a fascinating and inspiring story. Do you know what happened to the daughter- she would be in her late eighties now.


5 posted on 12/08/2020 7:43:08 PM PST by Stingray51 ( )
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To: CheshireTheCat

Reminds me of scenes from the movie “The Sand Pebbles”.


6 posted on 12/08/2020 7:43:13 PM PST by hanamizu
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To: CheshireTheCat

Are we actually ready to take a stand for the Truth? These righteous souls are watching us! May we be worthy of their example.


7 posted on 12/08/2020 7:46:56 PM PST by Torahman (Remember the Maccabees)
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To: CheshireTheCat

This should not be in “executed today”. It should be in “murdered today”.


8 posted on 12/08/2020 7:53:24 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. .... )
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To: WalterSkinner

yep


9 posted on 12/08/2020 8:03:50 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Stingray51

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.


10 posted on 12/08/2020 8:05:59 PM PST by Guenevere (No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you(Isaiah)
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To: CheshireTheCat

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!


11 posted on 12/08/2020 8:23:06 PM PST by doc maverick
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To: Guenevere

Bkmk China


12 posted on 12/08/2020 9:01:07 PM PST by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Nothing has changed except that Obama and Biden love the Red Chinese genocidalists TODAY.


13 posted on 12/08/2020 10:56:02 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: doc maverick

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.


14 posted on 12/08/2020 11:03:14 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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