The spirit of sacrifice, and the social passion of the young men and women who commenced their ac~ Uivitles before the smoke of battle had rolled away, have now become part of Chinese tradition. As requested by China's leaders, in a Com. Munlst recovered area, "they have brought justice ahd equity into human relations, and given men, women and children, the freedom' to enjoy beauty, to follow truth, and to achieve goodness, Some of them are now serving in the larger crusade, under the banner of the New Life Movement, which is China's answer to Communism and to the needs of all her people, embodying the Christian approach to the economic and social life of China.
The work at Lichwan is infinitely unfinished. Tt is a small. beginning Where East and West together have been given a chance to think over "the shape of things to come." As Basil Matthews says, "Those who wish to do such things in the light of the teachings of Jesus Christ are going to meet Teal hazards and encounter subtle deviltries This has already proven to be (rue nevertheless, the Spirit of the Lord God has been upon us encouraging the depressed, binding up the broken hearted, showing a new and Christian way to the poor, selting at liberty those that are bound, wiping out class hatred and differences of race, binding men together in one great brotherhood of love.
The Church At Work Education, health, agriculture, transportation, city and village planning ce-operatives and financial stability: have all followed in rapid succession, andre constantly being adjusted to the needs of the new day. Training self-defence has about rid the prov Ince of bandiis and disorderly soldiers, We are the Church at work in one of the needy fields of the world. We have succeeded not merely in making gains of a social, economic and political nature, but in maintaining that real progress lies in the direction of standing steadfastly by the spiritual and moral code of the Chris-flan faith.
Governor Hsiung is fust inaugurat Ing an ambitious scheme, financed ocally, for the social education of women. This vast undertaking had lig" beginnings in Lichwan. The Kiangsi Christian Rural Service Union was the first centre in Kiangsi to prove that college trained women fre qualified and ready to serve their sisters in the villages.
What one college trained woman, accompanied by u registered public health nurse, con do for the women of the villages, is beyond the scope of this article, but it reads ike a fairy tale, Mme Chiang, as Presid~ ent of the Kiangsi Christian Rural Service Union, has strongly emphas-doubt," says a Christian states man, "it there Is any greater need than the training of rurally-minded men and women, who will go to an area and build there a rural elvilization, Christian to the core, where each person will know the Jesus who taught peasants by parables, and where children will be taught to in-regrate their knowledge to daily life id to grappling with its problems; and the rural church will be linked up with the home, the fields, the ce-operative, the government and the health elinle, as well with Christians across the world." "This part of Lichwan's programme remains unfinished.
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