# 5 BLOOD LETTERS - FREE CHINA/HONG KONG

# 5 BLOOD LETTERS - FREE CHINA/HONG KONG

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Excerpts from Lian XI, "Blood Letters" "The Untold Story of Lin Zhad, A Martyr in Mao's China"

Chapter One - TO LIVE UNDER THE SUN P. 16 -19

Preface:

    This letter is in salute to the Chinese freedom fighters who were arrested by Communist Beijing in Hong Kong. "The arrested include Martin Lee, 81, a main author of Hong Kong's basic law who is considered the father of Hong Kong's democracy movement...." Wall Street Journal, Mon. April 20, 2020

Begin: "Unlike most mission schools in the 19h century, which catered to poor families, it was an elite school right from the start. ' There is the newly built Laura Haygood Memorial School for girls of the higher classes," noted the survey volume of a century of Protestant work in China published in 1907. It offered "exceptional literary advantages" and charged "eighty dollars per annum, not including music" - several times the entire annual income of an average laborer at the time.

  The rules at Laura Haygood were strict: one's posture had to be decorous, one's gait elegant. School uniform must be neat. Students filed into the cafeteria to the accompaniment of music, prayed before they dined, and prayed again at bedtime. In its early days, all instruction as well as textbooks were in English, with the exception of the Chinese classes. Laura Haygood students distinguished themselves in sports as well. In spring 1948, when Lin Zhao was a junior, the school won championships in basketball and volleyball and received banners folk dancing and track....

    From its early days, Laura Haygood had embodied the reformist spirit in mission education: the biology teacher had girls make charts of mosquitoes and flies for their visits to local homes to promote public health; students devoted their summer vacation. to teaching children who had never had opportunities to formal education....

    After the disruptions of the Sino-Japanese War, during which its campus was occupied by the Japanese army, Laura Haygood reopened in late 1945 when Jiang Guiyun, the principal since 1927, returned with a contingent of refugee students. (Hang's brother, Jiang Changchuan, had baptized Chiang Kai-shek in 1930 and served as bishop of the United Methodist Church in China after 1941....

Not long after she arrived at Laura Haygood, Lin Zhao was baptized by a missionary teacher and joined the church.

    Lin Zhao's existent writings make no mention of how or why she chose to be baptized. In a sense, her conversion was not unexpected: before Laura Haygood, she had briefly attended Vincent Miller Academy, a Presbyterian mission school near her home in the outskirts of Suzhou. A melancholy essay she wrote in May 1947, before her transfer to Laura Haygood, hinted at deep emotions stirred by an image of the Holy Mother.

    Many years later, when she was in prison, she would write fondly of the "influence of the humanitarian ideas of liberty, equality and fraternity" that she came under in mission schools. She also associated mission Christianity with other virtues, such ass efficiency and pragmatism. By the time she enrolled...her own patriotic flame, passed on from her mother, had already flared up, and the schools Christian concern with justice apparently appealed to her...

End: In any event, Lin Zhao, put down religious roots during her time at Laura Haygood. As she would discover later in life, they ran much deeper than she initially realized..."

George H. Kubeck

P.S. It is a tragedy for the U.S.A. that the leadership of the Democratic Party not to concur with the last act of Congress ever signed by him (Lincoln) was one requiring that the motto, in which he sincerely believed. "In God we trust." should hereafter he inscribed upon all our national coin." Colfax. Lincoln, 180