Evangelistic campaigns in con-region with the Christian Church are being held in this and also in the Anhsien district'. The people are. friendly and interested, Dr. Leehler sees scores of patients afternoon at the good-will is being cult Prominent man amongst military here has been in qui with a view to sending his sons the Mission school, acting on the advice of his elder son who is studying at the Union Middle School in Chengtu. There are many inez that go to prove that the military are putting some of their energy into good things. Everyone knows that the military are not lacking in energy. There are signs that seem-to indicate that even yet China's salvation, in recompense for so many of her troubles, may come Sunday when I was in Chengtu I went to the large church of the American Episcopal Methodists to hear Colonel Chao preach. He! preached for three-quarters of an hour such a sermon as was good to hear, Colonel Tao had occupied the pulpit in the morning, These officers are making real efforts to] help their men, Col. Tao has just help of the Society's West keep.a work going which he started and is financing, in a market just off Tehyang. The Mission is also providing at his request a chaplain for -his own regiment, now in Chengtu, He told me that there are at present. three Christian Colonels in Chengtu. My - inquiries seem to show that these men are the direct fruit of evangelistic work, and owe nothing to the Mission school. These things are worth noting and they can: be paralleled in many other places in Chins, and perhaps indicate an avenue through which Christianity, can tap Chinese culture even more surely than through Mission schools; for after all at best the Mission school is an exotic, and] hampered in its working compared with the powers of a Christin commander. This does mot mean that the Mission school is not a. useful agency; a strong case can be made for it if necessary.
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