ABSTRACT
Tien-sze” was the small name of a boy who was born about forty years ago in Taitou. The name expressed the great gratitude of his parents to God for the fortune of his birth. Tien-sze was the fourth child and the third son of his parents. The family had four boys and two girls, but one of the girls died when she was a very young child. The first child was a boy, the second a girl, the third and fourth were boys while the fifth was a girl. After the death of the second girl came the sixth child, a boy. Tien-sze was separated by a number of years from both his next oldest and next youngest siblings. The death of the second daughter indirectly influenced his life greatly, as we shall see later.
