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"I wiii bring the blind by 
 a way that they know not : 
 I will lead them in paths 
 that they have not known : 
 I will make darkness light 
 before them, and crooked 
 things straight. These 
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 Blind Chang 
 
 Missionary 
 Martyr of 
 Manchuria 
 
 (SMrs. J.) %osalind goforth 
 
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 foreword . . 
 
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 ^T IS NOT LONG SINCK WE. 
 
 a small band of five missionaries, seeking a field for 
 our Presbyterian Church in Canada, realized our steps 
 were being led, strangely, unexpectedly and wonder- 
 fully, out of the danger and darkness, the horror and 
 chaos of war-torn China, into the calm and quiet of 
 vvhat later proved to be indeed a prepared habitation in 
 the city of Szepingkai, Manchuria. 
 
 What a contrast it all «as! It was as light from 
 darkness, as calm after storm. We rould carrv on our 
 work wthout let or hindrance while thousands of mis- 
 sionaries were being driven from their stations a few 
 hours by train to the South of us. 
 
 A few months later we had occasion to stay in the 
 home of a missionary in Mukden. Here we heard the 
 story of Blind Chang, whose native village was but a 
 short distance from where we lived. Those who read 
 this story mil not wonder we decided there and then 
 to pass it on to others. If there 's a finer example 
 of one literally following in the footsteps of the Lord 
 Jesus Christ, even to the giving up of life itself for 
 others, we have not come across it. 
 
 We desire here to gratefully acknowledge help given 
 us, m collecting data, by more than one missionary 
 specially have we valued the use of Rev. James Inglis' 
 booklet on Blind Chang, without which we could not 
 have compiled the following story. 
 
 Szepingkai^ Manchuria. 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 The Miracle Wrought 
 
 From the Overflow of the Heart 
 
 A Peer of Pioneers 
 
 The Martyrdom - - . . 
 
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jBlind Clianq ^ ^ ^ 
 
 Missionari| Martgr of Manchuria . . 
 
 CHAPTER ONE 
 
 The <SMiracle Wrought 
 
 is there any- 
 
 "Behold, 1 am the LORD . . 
 thing too hard for Me?" 
 
 "Ah, Lord God! behold . . . there is nothing 
 too wonderful (margin) for Thee."— Jeremiah 32 • 
 
 ?7, 17. 
 
 I HE COUNTRY around Szepingkai has a peculiar 
 formation, somewhat resembling great ocean swells 
 after a storm. Nestling in one of these undulations, 
 protected from the fierce winds which sweep Manchuria 
 from the desert reaches of Mongolia, lies the village of 
 Taipingkow (Valley of Peace). Here Chang Shen was 
 born, and most probably would have lived and died 
 m that region, quite unknown to the outside world, 
 had it not been for certain rumours which, in the win- 
 ter of 1886, came floating in concerning a wonderful 
 place in the city of Mukden some one hundred and 
 twenty miles to the South. It was said that the foreign 
 doctor there could cure all kinds of diseases even 
 
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Bund Chang: Missioyiary Martyr 
 
 blind men were known to have gone into the hospital 
 and returned seeing. 
 
 Blind Chang, as he was called, was then thirty-six 
 years of age. He listened with intense interest to these 
 tales and hope gradually dawned u-ithin him, that he 
 too might receive sight. At last his resolve was made 
 —he would somehow make his way to Mukden. 
 
 Thus we find him one morning in xMay setting forth 
 on his long tramp, without even a guide, only a stout 
 stick with which to feel his way. The Chang clan 
 was large and fairly well to do. They saw to it that 
 he was provided with a little money and warm clothes 
 for the nights at that time of the year were very cold! 
 
 All went well for the first part of the journey but 
 when still more than a day's journey from Mukden 
 he was suddenly set upon by robbers who took from 
 him his little hoard of money, stripped him of his warm 
 clothing and left him bruised and well-nigh helpless 
 by the roadside. One can imagine the plight of the 
 blmd man as, trembling with cold and rage, he pressed 
 on. That night his only resting place was the cold 
 brick floor of an open wayside temple. Here he con- 
 tracted that dread disease of the East-dysentery 
 How he mad. the rest of his way to the hospital in 
 Mukden he himself afterwards could hardly tell. 
 
 On reaching the hospital gateway, too exhausted 
 
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 Blind Chaxc: Missionary Martyr 
 
 to stand longer, he threw himself down beside the 
 gate while word was sent in asking for his admittance. 
 Soon a message came that the hospital was full, not 
 a bed vacant, there was therefore no room for him. 
 When this was told him, the blind man seemed not to 
 hear and continued to lie there. Can we doubt but 
 that it was indeed the Holy Spirit Himself who spoke 
 to the hospital evangelist and caused him, at this 
 juncture, to go out to the gate. As the evangelist 
 looked down upon the cold, hungry, suffering, perhaps 
 dying blind man, his heart strangely stirred within him. 
 He had looked upon perhaps hundreds of cases as sad, 
 some sadder, than this, but never had felt moved— 
 nay impelled— to do what he did now. Stepping 
 quickly into the hospital, he went direct to Dr. Christie 
 and begged that the man at the gate be given his own 
 bed! 
 
 How little did either doctor or evangelist know then 
 what was in the balance! But the Lord knew this 
 blind man was even then His chosen vessel to carry 
 the cup of salvation to thousands in Manchuria, and 
 in His own wonderful way opened what seemed an 
 impassable door. Thus Blind Chang entered the Mis- 
 sion hospital where a new life for him was to begin. 
 
 For one month he remained in the hospital where 
 relief and healing came to his suffering body, but only 
 very partial sight to the blind eyes; at best he could 
 
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Blind Chang: Missioyiary Martyr 
 
 but grope his way about with difficulty. Sad to say. 
 this dun but still precious sight given him in the hos- 
 pital was not long after, totally and permanently 
 destroyed by a "Needle Pricker" doctor, such as ar'e 
 found everywhere in the land. 
 
 f.i.T!'^.v^'*!^'/''^PP°^^'"^"^ ^""^ Chang must have 
 felt at the failur- to get back his sight was more than 
 made up to him , y he great joy with which he received 
 the story o Redemption as it was unfolded to him in 
 the hospital. He had, as you will see later, been a 
 great sinner. The fact of forgiveness, when realized 
 as his came much as is described in the lines by John 
 Masefield when he tells of a man, brutal, vulgarized 
 debauched, debased, as he comes suddenlv into touch 
 and acceptance of Jesus Christ— 
 
 "iu't"'^^ <*'«*. 1 did not strive. 
 J he deep peace burnt uy me alive. 
 The bolted door had broken ir 
 I knew that I had done with 
 I knew that Christ had given me btrth 
 10 brother all the souls on earth. 
 
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 I thought all earthly creatures knelt 
 trom rapture at the joy I felt." 
 
 Dr. Christie later wrote: "Never had we a patient 
 m our hospital who received the Gospel with such joy 
 as Blind Chang. The rapidity with which he grasped 
 the leading truths of Christianity was remarkable " 
 
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Blind Chang: Missionary Martyr 
 
 Before leaving the hospital for home, the blind 
 man went to the Rev. James Webster and asked for 
 baptism. He was anxious to get rid of all his sins and 
 be cleansed from his black past. Mr. Webster saw 
 that he needed further instruction for the man thought 
 bemg baptized by the missionary would ensure him of 
 complete cleansing. Gently but firmly the missionary 
 made it plain that Chang must return home and show 
 by his life the reality of his faith, then later he, Mr. 
 Webster, would visit him and if he still wished to 
 follow the Lord he would be baptized. 
 
 Blind Chang's disappointment at this was so keen 
 the missionary almost repented his decision, but 
 reasoned that if the man were sincere he could only 
 profit by the delay. So, with a few Christian books 
 and tracts for distribution, he was sent on his way. 
 
 Yes, Blind Chang had a "black past". It may 
 be that the secret of his great passion later for making 
 Ciirist known to other sinners such as he had been 
 was that "he loved much because much had been for- 
 given." One would fear indeed to use the following 
 words of the Apostle Paul in describing the change 
 wrought m this man did not his after life fully bear 
 out the truth of each word. 
 
 When he left the mission hospital in Mukden he 
 was "A new creation in Christ Jesus." "Old things 
 
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Blind Chang: Missionary Martxr 
 
 had passed away all things had become neW." 
 
 He had put off the old man with his deeds he 
 
 tad put on the new man." In Blind Chang's own 
 hymn given at the close of this sketch, we get a glim- 
 mer of the mner spiritual life which came to be his 
 A life of sweet fellowship with the Saviour who through 
 all the hard years was to be his Guide and Companion. 
 
 But what of that "black ,oast'? Is it necessary to 
 give any details of H? Yes, for otherwise we could 
 not know how real, how great, was the miracle of grace 
 which had taken place in him. The following facts 
 
 vr,T" V ^^ ' '■''"'*°" °^ ^""^ Chang's many 
 years after his martyrdom. We were told he bore a 
 very bad name throughout his home region. He was 
 an inveterate gambler, and a man of such immoral life 
 as to be a by-word, and that in a land where such lives 
 
 sort"° n^^"'?'^"- ^' "^"^^ ^'^ "^^"2 '^y acting as a 
 sort of Official and using his self-assumed power to 
 prey upon the people who feared him. His only child 
 a daughter he turned out of doors, to be forced into 
 b^gary and a life of shame. Not long after he drove 
 his wife from home. Seventeen days after the wife 
 had gone he became totally blind. Some said this was 
 a judgment upon him because of his evil life, while 
 others said it was the direct result of that life The 
 people spoke of him as a "Wu soa pu wei te", meaning 
 One without a particle of good in him." 
 
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 Men s faith staggers at this or that miracle, but 
 what greater miracle can be recorded than such a life 
 as this, changed, not gradually, but as quickly as the 
 human eye can open to the light? It is the miracle 
 of the New Birth and we have seen this miracle in 
 
 hnunT-T!! '"^ '^''" ^' ^'"^^ °^ ^>" ^"d habit, 
 bound with chains as real and strong as any forged in 
 
 a furnace have had their fetters snapped by the grace 
 of^ God through faith making the so^S a free maTin 
 
 "Ah! Lord God, Truly "there is nothing too 
 
 WONDERFUL FOR THEE." 
 
 Thirtnn 
 
C If A P T P; R TWO 
 
 From the Overflow of Heart 
 
 "Thy soul must overflow if thou 
 Another snul would'st reach; 
 It needs the overflow of heart 
 To give the lips full speech" 
 
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 — H. Bonar. 
 
 LS BLIND CHANG faced the homeward journey his 
 heart was filled with intense joy. So full was he that 
 he could no more help overflowing than a vessel placed 
 under an open tap c-ld keep the precious flow within 
 Its own bounds. The blind man had caught the same 
 vision as the little child we heard of in the Welsh 
 revival who, after hearing the grown-ups praying to be 
 filled with the Holy Spirit, rose and with clasped hands 
 upraised prayed, "O Lord! I'm only a little girl and 
 can t hold very much. Will you please fill me to over- 
 flow, for I can overflow lots!" 
 
 Along the road the blind man travelled to his home 
 were open wayside drinking places, where wayfarers 
 sat rested, drank hot water and chatted. On reaching 
 such a place Blind Chang would seat himself at a table 
 and at once begin to tell the Old, Old Story which 
 never, never grows old. That he gave out with power 
 
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 Blind Chance: Missu>na,\ Murtxr 
 
 the little he himself knew was evidenced by the crowds 
 he drew around him. Thus before reaching home his 
 ministry had begun. 
 
 The enemy of souls, however, was not going to let 
 this man go without a struggle. While still on the 
 homeward journey, he became assailed with torment- 
 ing doubts and fears. He kept asking himself— "Can 
 It be the missionary is no better than the smooth- 
 tongued liars I have dealt with? Can it be that the 
 missionary is after all no better than ourselves? Did 
 he say he would visit and baptize me just to put me 
 off, and has no intention of coming?" When the 
 ground seemed to be giving way from under his feet 
 as It were, the Lord sent a dream to comfort him' 
 Later he said how this dream dispelled all doubts and 
 fears and restored the joy and peace he seemed to 
 be losing. 
 
 He dreamt he saw the Saviour coming toward 
 him in glowing white. He had a book in His hand 
 and a crown was upon His brow. As He handed him 
 the book He smiled down upon him and then vanished 
 This dream to the blind man meant not only a 
 strengthener to his weak, failing faith, but was much 
 more— It came to him as a personal Divine call to 
 carry the Gospel to others. In thus being influenced 
 by a dream Blind Chang was by no means alone 
 among the Christians of China. Were the history of 
 
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BiiN-n CiiANc: Missinnarx Martyr 
 
 the Christian Church in China written it would doubt- 
 less record hundreds of cases where men have been 
 
 JnT^K ^"^ ^'''•''°"' ^^^''''''''^ ^'•°'" ^^^' strengthened 
 n faith, and given courage to face even death itself 
 through a dream. 
 
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 Fiv-e months passed before Mr. Webster found him- 
 self sufficiently free from pressing mission matters to 
 pay his promised visit to the blind man. There were 
 
 Ufffi 'TT ■ " ^^1""^^""^ then and it was with some 
 difficulty Taipingkow was located. Here we will allow 
 Mr. Webster to tell his o^^n story. 
 
 "At the entrance to the village two men were stand- 
 ing. Addressing one I found him to be a Mr. Li who 
 knew all about the blind man. He led me into his 
 home with much ceremony and while we drank tea 
 together he told me a story which caused me to forget 
 all hunger and weariness. He told how when Blind 
 
 Tn ?i!f /vf'"'"'"! ^T' ^""^"^ ^^"^^^" he ''egan at once 
 to te the people the story of Jesus, going from village 
 to vil age, and into as many homes as would receive 
 him; then m the evenings he would preach to hundreds 
 gathered under the shade of the willow trees. At first 
 everybody laughed at him or thought him crazed and 
 pUied him. But when he still kept on preaching, and 
 giving practical proofs of having undergone a c^nge 
 pecple became divided about him. Some cursed him 
 
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ni.iNi) Chanc: Missiimary Martyr 
 
 some blessed him. In short the whole countryside was 
 in an uproar. Week after week passed, the blind man 
 daily praying his prayer for help from on high and 
 smgmg his one hymn learnt in Mukden (probably 
 'Jesus Loves Me'), then sallying forth alo , to tell the 
 story of Redeeming Love." 
 
 Well indeed might the missionary's heart burn with- 
 in him on hearing such news. Would that every new- 
 born child of God at home and abroad could have such 
 told of them. This world would then soon be a better 
 world. But where was Blind Chang? He was in the 
 village but had missed the missionary, and on hearing 
 of his arrival started with great joy to find him. The 
 missionary by this time had also started with Mr. Li 
 to find Blind Chang. They met on the road and as the 
 blind man came within hailing distance Mr. Webster 
 called him by name. He stood stock still for a moment 
 resting on his staff, as if to assure himself, and then 
 with his face radiant with joy, and great tears drop- 
 pmg from his eyes, he exclaimed in a voice trembling 
 with emotion, "Oh, Pastor! I always said you would 
 come. You promised!" 
 
 That night Mr. W^ebster was kept busy till after 
 midnight. He had for his bed-fellows Blind Chang 
 and a friend of his. (Chinese beds can accommodate 
 from SIX to twenty people.) He tells how the last 
 thing heard somewhere in the small hours of the morn- 
 
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Blind Chang: Mmumary Martyr 
 
 epenence for .ha .missionary. Hour after ho3 .he 
 
 til^ 2k '"*"' '" ""'"'"'■'« ""'lida.es for bap! 
 Km, each one given a private interview. On the W 
 
 r "« 'ify 'he nine »ho had been accepted were bat 
 
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 ^«.ion . ;,h c^dtL .ir^rh' rtr.r; 
 
 never witnessed a more interesting scenrL i„rn,H 
 ma more solemn and joy... sacramm ™Lvice ' The 
 
 S ed Tv7h! f-!,' " "^ "■- """d snide, wl^l^ad 'o 
 oe ed by the hand to receive the sacred rite Prn 
 fessmg to come to Christ and to believe in hL ^ 
 venture their all in thus befcSg th:,"dSar"ed 
 as n*: ■,"'r.J,° '""■'' '"' '■""'^•'/"f <heir frthe^ 
 
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 living God-and a this " "thTw^rlf '' r ^' **' 
 impossible to describe." "' '""''"^ 
 
 For five years Blind Chang con.inued to work for 
 
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 L u. ""' ^^"«^'^" ^^'"arked to the missionary when 
 he uas on one of his annual visits 'If Chan^ Ihln 
 had not lost his eyesight there .o.lAe'n^Vu^l 
 
 the eel. rt 'T'^'^^' P'°"'^" '•^^- '^-^ time passed 
 the see,ng Christians came to realize that they km? 
 
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 far better than th. hi- ^ '''"''^ '^'■'■>' °" ^^^ ^"^k 
 
 many of his countrymen. "'essing tor 
 
 Has said. Ihe cost of shining is burning.- 
 
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Bi iM> CifANo: K'UssumdTx Martxr 
 
 So It IS the life of this man has come down to later 
 generations here in Manchuria as a bright light We 
 have recently met Christians who were the grand- 
 children of men won to Christ through Blind Chang 
 Those who still live who knew him -.d those who only 
 knovv of him through the testirrony of others alike 
 speak with reverence and affection of his devoted self- 
 sacrificmg life. 
 
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 "Measure thy life by loss, not gain; 
 
 forth; '""'" '"""'• '"' ''' ''' -^'^^ P-^-d 
 Portovc's 'strength standeth in love's sacriUce ■ 
 And whoso suffers most has most to give'- ' 
 
 From "Sermon in the Hospital." 
 
 _ EFORE FOLLOWING Blind Chang in his wider 
 m mstrj^ we must say a word regarding the tn\fm 
 
 man .^ L" ^T'^'' ^™ ^^"^•- ''^ remarkable 
 man, .Mth a voice soft and mellow bevond any Chinese 
 I have ever met. He speaks with great rapidity hs 
 words seeming to flow from his lips like the c tsde s 
 
 mouthed wuh wonder and superstitious awe. One m n 
 the missionary's carter, was overheard to say "VVhat' 
 strange mfluence makes this man so much more elo 
 quent than any wLo can see.?" 
 
 habu'ol'fistinl' ""p"'"" 'I'' ^""^ ^^^"^ ^--^^ the 
 fhrl J ?■ ^'■«i"^"tly he went without food for 
 
 without nourishment for three weeks. In spite or 
 who knows, because of this, he was said to be strong 
 
 Ti^entxone 
 
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 Blind Chang: Missumarx Martxi 
 
 and even robust. Mr. Inglis considered perhaps the 
 most remarkable thing about this man was his memory 
 He seemed to have learned the whole x\ew Testament 
 off by heart, and could quote from the Old Testament 
 which at that time, was an unexplored field to most' 
 Christians. He always quoted by chapter and verse. 
 
 Had it not been for the instruction given him dur- 
 ing two visits made to the Blind School, Peking, where 
 he learned to both read and write, the Bible would 
 have been to him a sealed book. Upon his return to 
 Manchuria after his last visit to Peking he brought 
 with him such portions of the Scriptures as had been 
 stereotyped for the blind. For a time he carried a 
 portion of the Scriptures with him wherever he went 
 C^reat interest was created and crowds gathered to see 
 the marvel of a blind man reading with the tips of his 
 nngers! It was not much wonder, however, to learn 
 later that Blind Chang had abandoned this plan Eve" 
 one portion of the Scriptures was large and cumber- 
 some, and as time passed the blind man's journeys were 
 often distant and dangerous. 
 
 As w. come now to what is really the most import- 
 ant part 01 our story, the writer realizes how inade- 
 quate are her powers to visualize for the reader this 
 man s life as lived for those twelve years when his 
 
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 region. Blind Chang, from the time of his conversion 
 
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 had the spirit and vision of the PIONEER TherP 
 seemed to be that .vithin him which kept him ever 
 seeking to reach e most needy-those untouched, un- 
 reached by the Gospel. Think of this man-blind for 
 the most part alone, with but his stout staff to depend 
 on, sometimes with a child, rarely an adult, as guide- 
 rampmg over rough mountain roads, dangerous for 
 those who could see; ever onward, ever with that im- 
 pelling desire to make Christ known to sinners such 
 as he had been; ever eager to tell the story of what 
 the Lord had done for him; and this year after year in 
 cold and heat, in a climate of great extremes, for 
 twelve years. 
 
 A few weeks ago we had the privilege of a talk 
 with one who over thirty years ago had acted several 
 times as BImd Chang's guide. He was then a mere 
 boy of fourteen but well remembers what those jour- 
 neys meant. He told us how the blind man often met 
 with bitter persecution and endured great hardship, 
 especiahy when going to a new region. Children were 
 encouraged to pelt him with clods or bricks, curses 
 were hurled after him as the people drove him from 
 heir doors. Worst of all the dogs were set upon him 
 It was this last fact which sent a thrill of horror 
 through us as we heard it, for we too had had some 
 experience of the fierceness of these great mongrel, 
 half-starved Chinese dogs. What such attacks mus 
 
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Blind Chang: Missionary Martyr 
 
 have meant to one blind and unable to forfend their 
 onslaughts who can describe! Yet none of these 
 things moved him, neither counted he his life dear 
 unto him, for again he would return seeking a hearing 
 for his wonderful soul-saving, life-giving message, till 
 public opinion turned in his favour and victory came. 
 Doors cpened, and being blind, he was allowed to 
 spend hours in the daytime teaching the women and 
 children while the men were busy in the fields. When 
 evening came the men gathered in summer time under 
 the trees, in winter in the homes, while Blind Chang 
 gave to them all he knew. He had one message. He 
 preached Jesus to them for he knew nothing but Christ 
 and Him crucified. One missionary, in speaking of 
 Blind Chang's message says: "The one truth Blind 
 Chang emphasized was that Christ delivered sinners 
 by his death on the Cross, and this one fact entered 
 the hearts of his hearers with such power that it be- 
 came the spring of a truly Christian life." 
 
 Some of these converts were able to pray, not in the 
 usual set phraseology used by many Chinese Chris- 
 tians, but in a manner that showed they had learned 
 the secret of fellowship with God. In grateful return 
 for the blind man's teaching women cooked, washed 
 sewed, and mended for him. Then, as we have already 
 indicated, the time would come when the Christians 
 felt he had given them all he knew and some began to 
 
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Bi.iNi) CffAN.;; .\I,\si,,„,r/v M.ntxr 
 
 realize they knew more and were better able to carry 
 on with the work than he. Then it was Blind Chang 
 came to feel the old pioneer spirit take possession of 
 him. On he would press to "Regions Beyond" un- 
 t0u.:ied, there to go through the same hardships, en- 
 dure the same persecutions, yes, and to gain the same 
 victories as before. And all this gladly, willingly 
 because of his Christ-like passion for the souls of men.' 
 
 Mr. Inglis tells us that ic/ierever Blind Chang went 
 the light of the Gospel entered. That he was ever 
 keen to be about his Master's business may be seen 
 from the fact that not a few of the boys who acted as 
 his guides became Christians. As one of these lads 
 led the blind man, each holding the end of a stick 
 the story of Christ's love was told with such tendernesJ 
 the boys heart was won to yield himself to the Lord 
 I he missionary who baptized several of these bovs 
 writes: "What delighted me was the frank and hearly 
 way these boys had accepted the story of Christ's love 
 as told to th.m by the blind man." 
 
 It is only possible in this brief record to give the 
 story of just one place where Blind Chang carried the 
 Oospel as we have described. While still working for 
 he most part in his home region, he felt pressed to 
 take a journey several days eastward to a glen among 
 the mountains called Teshengkow (Valley of Victorv) 
 where a kinsman lived. Here, as elsewhere, he preached 
 
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Blind Chanc: Missumarx Martyr 
 
 Christ daily in the surrounding homes and villages. 
 After remaining about two months he returned home. 
 Soon word came begging him to return, as many were 
 enquiring the way of Salvation. Again he faced what 
 now he knew was a most difficult, stoney path. Again 
 he gave U\o months to preaching and leading on the 
 enquirers. He had not gone from the little group of 
 believers long when urgent messages were sent to Muk- 
 den asking for instructors. In response to these calls 
 Dr. Ross and Mr. Inglis started for Teshengkow the 
 autumn of 1891. 
 
 For seven days they travelled part of the way 
 thrnPTh forests, and part over mountain roads. 
 Th , .11 that great region the missionary tells us 
 
 *"? ii( -f was not one who had heard of the Saviour." 
 But on the last day of their journey they began to 
 realize "The sacred fire was alight." Scarcely had 
 they seated themselves in the inn when three men 
 entered, giving them the Christian salutation "Ping 
 an" (Peace with you). On this first visit Dr. Ross 
 baptized several converts but as there was no leader 
 and as time passed the work languished. 
 
 Two years went by and again Blind Chang, hearing 
 of the condition of the church at Teshengkow, feU 
 pressed to visit them. On his arrival he lost no 'time 
 m visitmg the Christians. Throughout the entire region 
 the blind evangelist tramped, stirring up the Christians 
 
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 winning new converts, and putting new life into all 
 A real revival followed, and, from that time the work 
 went on ; once a year the missionary visiting to baptize 
 and hold Communion and the blind evangelist return- 
 
 ?L'?\^''"^ *° ^'""^ ^° ^^^'^ "^'^ children in the 
 taitn. By 1898 about one thousand converts had 
 been received into the church in that region. 
 
 For some years previous to 1898 the anti-mission- 
 ary anti-Christian attitude of the Chinese seemed to 
 be decreasing until there came to be what we might 
 call a pro-Christian wave pass over Manchuria. Dur- 
 ing this short period numbers entered the Christian 
 Church. Little did any, either missionary or Chinese 
 Christian, dream this was but as the calm before the 
 storm. The winter of 1899-1900 was not far advanced 
 before the rumblings of the tempest could be heard 
 
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C H A P T I :R FOUR 
 
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 To 
 
 "Grvater hve hath no man than this that a man 
 lay down his life for his friends." 
 
 hJTT' "",F^os^ of 1899 a society came to be 
 neard of m China, calling themselves the "I Ho 
 Chwan" meaning "Righteous, united fighters." These 
 came to be called by foreigners "Boxers" These 
 Boxers were bitterly anti-foreign, their hatred extended 
 to the Chmese Christians as they considered them the 
 followers of the foreigner. Men joining this society 
 tramed vuth one object, to sweep away all foreigners 
 and all Christians. Their numbers increased with un- 
 believable rapidity. 
 
 During the winter of 1900 the rumours concerning 
 the doings of this society seemed like, as I have alreadv 
 said, the rumblings of a coming storm, though practi- 
 cally all foreigners believed that in time the danger 
 would pass as other like troubles had done before. 
 Then early in May the cyclone of horror was suddenly 
 let loose, and so sudden and unexpected was it when 
 It did come, hundreds of missionaries and Chinese 
 Chris lans failed to reach a place of safety and were 
 done to death by the merciless Boxers. 
 
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RiiND CfrANG: Missionary Martyr 
 
 RlJnl r K "'^' °^ persecution began to gather 
 
 Blind Chang was visiting the Christians at Tesheng- 
 kow All felt he would be a marked man and there- 
 fore had one of the Christians there lead him further 
 into the mountains where he could hide safely till the 
 troubles passed. It was in this safe hiding place that 
 blind Chang was to meet the supreme test of his life. 
 
 Several hundred // distant in a city called Chao- 
 yangshan about fifty Christians were seized by the 
 boxers. They were threatened with death and as 
 preparations were being made for their execution a 
 man spoke up to one of the Boxer leaders saying- 
 You are certainly foolish to kill all these. For one 
 
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 As a result of this advice the Boxer leaders prom- 
 
 RlL r^'' " ^'"'^ "^ '^' ^^"^^^^"^ ^f th^y handed 
 Blind Chang over to them for execution. For a time 
 
 none would hear of this but when things again looked 
 
 ser .us for the Christians one man, weaker tha^t^ 
 
 rest^went in search of Blind Chang to give him word 
 
 Blind Chang s hiding place and told his story the blind 
 evangelist listened silently through it all, whUe a look 
 
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 man finished, without a sign of doubt as to what he 
 
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 should do, Blind Chang reached out his hand, saying: 
 "I will gladly die for them. Take me to them for it 
 is better that it be so." 
 
 Over that long, stoney path they travelled for days, 
 the burning sun of July beating down upon them. Did 
 the blind man's heart fail within him at times? If so 
 he did not reveal it. On reaching Chaoyangshan he 
 was arrested and bound. His quiet dignity and 
 absence of any sign of fear impressed and awed his 
 enemies. 
 
 The details of those sad but gloriously victorious 
 scenes have come to us from several sources and differ 
 slightly, but only in minor details. 
 
 The day of his arrival at Chaoyangshan Blind 
 Chang was taken bound to the temple of Kwan Kung 
 (god of war). Wild crowds had gathered and on reach- 
 ing the temple he was dragged inside and commanded 
 to vvorship the gods. To this he replied with quiet 
 dignity, probably the only calm one in the midst of 
 that throng of savage and merciless tormentors: 
 
 "I can only worship One Living and True God." 
 
 "But you must repent", they cried. 
 
 "I have repented long ago", was the quiet answer. 
 
 "Then will you believe in Buddha?" To this he 
 
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 replied: "I believe in the one true Buddha even Jesus 
 Christ." 
 
 When again he was commanded to bow before the 
 gods, he exclaimed, "Turn my face towards the sun " 
 He knew the idols faced the South so by him facing 
 South hts back would therefore be towards the idols. 
 As they turned him he knelt down and worshipped the 
 God of Heaven and Earth. 
 
 While this was going on the Boxer leaders with 
 fifteen executioners were on their way from a town 
 twenty-five miles away. We know nothing of the ter- 
 rible days between, but from what we have heard con- 
 cerning the methods of torture used in many other 
 cases, we cannot but realize those days must have 
 tested the blind hero to the utmost. Yet he did not 
 fail throughout that furnace of horror. 
 
 Three days after his arrest, on the 22nd of July, 
 1900, Blind Chang was placed on an open cart at 
 eight o\:lock in the morning, and driven through the 
 streets of the town amidst great crowds to the common 
 burial ground outside the city wall. Christians fol- 
 lowed beside the cart and witnessed the blind man all 
 the way, either engaged in prayer or singing aloud: 
 
 "Jesus loves me, he who died 
 
 Heaven's gate to open wide; 
 He will wash aw> . my sin, 
 Let his liftle cntld come in. 
 
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Blind Chang: Missumary Martyr 
 
 Jesus loves me, He will stay, 
 
 Close beside me all the way; 
 // / love Him when I die, 
 
 He will lake me home on high." 
 
 On arrival at the place of execution lilind Chang 
 was dragRed from the cart and forced to kneel down; 
 as he did so he cried with a loud voice, "Heavenly 
 Father, receive my spirit." ihis he said three times 
 but before the third sentence ended the swords of his 
 murderers fell upon him from behind and cut him 
 down. 
 
 The Christians begged for his body but the Boxer 
 leader refused their request and forced them to buy 
 oil with which to burn the mangled remains to ashes. 
 This was done because a report had spread abroad 
 that Blind Chang would rise from the dead; the 
 Boxers thought therefore to make this impossible. 
 Later these men became afraid for they had come to 
 believe the man whom they had killed was a good man. 
 This fear caused them to flee to other parts to escape 
 the revenge they believed his spirit would wreak upon 
 them. With the leaders gone no further persecution 
 of the Christians followed. 
 
 When the Boxer uprising had passed and at least 
 outward repentance had come, the Provincial Govern- 
 ment of Manchuria ordered a handsome stone monu- 
 ment to be erected in honour of the man whose memory 
 
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BiiNi) Chanc: MissMHcirv Mdrt\r 
 
 was being cherished with love and reverence in the 
 hearts of many thousands throughout the land. As a 
 mark of their regard for Blind Chang the official order 
 was given that the highest number of dragons next 
 to that allowed on Imperial tombs, namely eight, were 
 to be carved on the stone monument. 
 
 We cannot close this brief sketch better than by 
 giving in full the one hymn which has come down to 
 us from the hand of the blind hero. As one reads 
 these lines they seem to breathe something of the close- 
 ness and preciousness of i.he Saviour to the soul of 
 Blind Chang as he trod those hard, lonely paths. 
 
 JESUS MY GUIDE 
 
 Jesus my Goiide! 'tis my delight! 
 
 Peace fills my soul, He is my Guide. 
 In toil or rest, by day or night, 
 
 Jesus is ever by my side. 
 
 My Guide is Jesus day by day, 
 His hand of mercy claspeth mine; 
 
 He is my Guide, on Him I stay, 
 Upon His right hand I recline. 
 
 
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Blind Chanh;: M\ssumar\ Martyr 
 
 Fast hold of Jesus' hand I take 
 ijie's journey through to Heaven's gate, 
 
 Nor weal, nor woe, my hope can shake, 
 Jesus is Guide, on Him I wait. 
 
 Victor I stand when life is done, 
 O'er outer joes and sin's foul brood, 
 
 Jesus my Guide, I trust alone, 
 I shall not dread the coldest flood. 
 
 {Translated by the Rev. John Ross, D.D.) 
 
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