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said, “I am going to die anyway and go to be with the Lord Jesus Christ. I think you

would do better to help the others. I would be glad if you can find my brother and see
what can be done for him!”

The master-sergeant later made a statement to the Press that though he had served

more than 1,200 wounded in the World War he had never seen such a demonstration
of courage as was shown by that Chinese girl, and he added, “She was really a
Christian!”

A missionary also knelt beside her and took her name and the name of her brother.
She told him that she and her brother had been going to “the Conference of Christ”
being held at Peitaiho, but said she knew no one there except Mr. Graham and her
other brother.

The dear girl had no idea that she was going to meet Christ in a greater and more
real sense than she could possibly have done at Peitaiho. Almost while she was
talking the Spirit left the body and fled to His presence.

The news was brought to James Yin and myself in Peitaiho that they had been
injured and James took the first train to the scene of the tragedy. He found the body of
Grace already in a rude coffin and that Arthur had been taken to a hospital in Tientsin.

He had the remains of Grace taken into Tientsin and hastened then to find Arthur, but
all he found were his brother‟s mortal remains. Arthur had died as they brought him
into the hospital. No two brothers were ever more devoted to each other.

He committed the two corpses to a mortician and wired his father to come. He then
wrote a letter to me—one of the most beautiful I have ever received. He told how
even in death the peace of God was written on those two faces. He rejoiced in their
salvation and that they had gone to be with the Lord. He asked me if I could come the

following Sunday to conduct the funeral service.

This I arranged to do. Ernest Yin had arrived before me and came to meet me in the
early morning, greeting me with affectionate warmth and with that quiet sobriety that

has always characterized him. He was no whit different from the man who had come
to see his other daughter married at my home five weeks before.
He gripped my hand and looked heavenward and said with a radiant smile, “I have
no complaint to make, my Tao-Koa (Arthur) and Teh-Huei (Grace) are now in the

presence of the Savior. I am filled with joy to know that they both received Him that

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