During the past few months, there" fore, hundreds of young men and women have migrated to Szechuen from all over China. Many of them Serious dimeulties and inconveniences came at t expense, experiencing
before they finally reached Chungking and Chengtu. Foreign observers state that in part they have gone to Chungking because of their patrio-tim and their desire to their preparation for future life without interruption. Already, they are said to be receiving a new vision bf heir country and a higher sense of fellowship with people df their own race. In turn, they are bringing broader outlook, new spirit and. more stalwart purposes.
Bishop Ralph A. Ward, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, who lives on the edge of the campus of the West China Union University and whose daughter is a member of the University's faculty, gives, in a report to the National Christia Council, Shanghai, an example of this in an account of an evening in his house, when over thirty students from the Union University rose and introduced themselves -in turn.
"The impression was startling," he. writes. "It revealed an epitome of what has been going on in China during the days of the Republic and must develop vastly further." long as.it is necessary."—Reuter, From Far and Near
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