I cannot forsake my missionary friends and the Christians, who have no one
else to depend upon, but I want you to try to escape."
"Father," said the boy, "I want to stay here with you. I am not afraid to
die."
"No," the father replied. "If we are all killed, who will preach Jesus to
these poor people?"
So, before the next day dawned, Ti-to said good-by, and started with Mr.
Tien on his wanderings. That same afternoon Pastor Meng was in the chapel
when a company of Boxers suddenly burst into the room and seized him. A
Christian Chinese who was with him escaped over the back wall, and took the
sad tidings to his friends. The Boxers dragged Pastor Meng to a temple, and
there, having learned that his eldest son had fled, tortured him to make
him tell Ti-to's hiding-place. But the secret was not revealed. In the
early morning scores of Boxer knives slowly stabbed him to death. But the
face of the Master smiled upon this brave soul, "faithful unto death."
Three days later, four of his children, his only sister and her two
children, and the three missionary friends for whom he had laid down his
life, were killed.
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