
Cai Sujuan
I remember reading Queen of the Dark Chamber by this remarkable woman when I was six. I was very impressed with Cai Sujuan and the work she felt led to do. I remember wishing I could visit her. She wasn’t too far away. She eventually moved to Paradise, Pennsylvania. We would visit that area a few times a year but I never asked my parents could we stop by. She did accept visitors. I was pretty shy in those days. :-) Here’s a quote from the book taken from Pray for China’s website.
Living in Spiritual Darkness
Cai Sujuan, known in the West as Christiana Tsai, was born in Nanjing, the 18th of 24 children of the vice-governor of Jiangsu Province. Despite her luxurious surroundings, Sujuan was a sad, serious girl, and she considered becoming a Buddhist nun. Instead, her fascination with the English language led her to two missionary schools, the first in Nanjing, where Mary Leaman was the principal, and the second in Suzhou. Sujuan entered these schools determined to shut her ears to all discussion of the Gospel, but when a visiting American pastor preached at the Suzhou school, Sujuan attended to listen to his English. His message, Christ, the Light of the World, struck her to the heart, and she believed. <more>