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==Family and childhood== Watchman Nee was born on November 4, 1903, the third of nine children of Ni Weng-hsiu, a well-respected officer in the [[Chinese Maritime Customs Service|Imperial Customs Service]], and Lin He-Ping (Peace Lin), who excelled as a child at an American-staffed Methodist mission school. His grandfather was a gifted Anglican preacher.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Stark|first1=Rodney|title=A Star in the East: The Rise of Christianity in China|date=2015|publisher=Templeton Press|location=Conshohocken|page=58}}</ref> During a stint at the Chinese Western Girls' School in [[Shanghai, China|Shanghai]] to improve her English, Lin He-Ping met [[Dora Yu]], a young woman who gave up a potential career in medicine to serve as an evangelist and preacher.<ref name=AT>{{cite book|author=Kinnear, Angus|title=Against the Tide|url=https://archive.org/details/againsttidestory00kinn|url-access=registration|location=Fort Washington|publisher= Christian Literature Crusade |date=1973}}</ref> Since Nee's parents were both Methodists, he was baptized by a bishop of the Methodist Church as an infant.<ref>{{cite book|author=Lee, Witness|title=Watchman Nee: A Seer of the Divine Revelation in the Present Age|location= Anaheim|publisher= Living Stream Ministry |date=1991|page= 36}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Lin, He-Ping|title=An Object of Grace and Love|location=Eastbourne|publisher=Kingsway |date=1943}}</ref><ref name=BSR>{{cite book|author=Reetzke, James|title=Biographical Sketches: A Brief History of the Lord's Recovery|location= Chicago|publisher= Chicago Bibles & Books |date=2003}}</ref>
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