A missionary legacy
On All Things Considered this week (Sunday 13 May at 8.3am), repeated Wednesday 16 May at 6.30pm) Roy Jenkins meets a couple who have been re-tracing the steps of their great grandparents, martyred in China more than a hundred years ago.
When the Boxer Rebellion threatened the lives of all westerners, and especially Christian workers, Baptist missionaries Herbert and Elizabeth Dixon were forced to embark on a perilous journey in an attempt to leave the country. They never made it.
Their story has been in Pru Bell's family ever since, in the form of letters written during the uprising, and her great grandfather's vivid journal.
With her husband Stuart, who is rector of Aberystwyth, Pru Bell has now taken that journal, and her tape-recorder, back to the exact place where her forebears were killed - and to her immense delight she has encountered the thriving Christian church in that same community.
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