Geraldine Taylor, the daughter-in-law of Hudson Taylor (the founder of the China Inland Mission), published the story of the Stams’ martyrdom two years after their death. Every time I read it, the compounding of the preciousness and the pain by the marriage and the baby make me weep. Never was that little one more precious than when they looked their last on her baby sweetness, as they were roughly summoned the next morning and led out to die.… Painfully bound with ropes, their hands behind them,