The Archive · 1928

How the Church was Used

'The church itself has been occupied as the District Kuomintang's meeting hall, the chancel being used: as a place for committee meetings, tables having been placed along it. Dr. Sun Yat-sen's picture has ocx the' place just above the altar, and Kuomintang slogans and ex. tracts from the "San Min Chu 1" have been plastered over the wal Some of these slogans have hi Painted in the interior, while the outside of the building has been Painted blue with more slogans written in large white characters.

The lower part of the church has been used as a sort of dining hall, large amount of the church furniture having been removed in order to give more space. Tu the church. compound two buildings which were originally chapels, but which have deen used as boys' schools for some, time, were taken by the Headquarters as the committees' offices. A residence, formerly that of a. for emer, has been the home of the secretaries und their young girl)

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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