Under the title "Redeeming the Time," the China Inland. Mission' issues its report for 1936—a year of great significance in the Mission's history, giving as the report says abundant scope to "redeem the time" for "the days were evil indeed." The release of Mr. Rudolf Bosshardt at Easter time was an event of more than ordinary" importance for It marked a definite change in the! policy of the Communists, whose abandonment of their bitter antagonism (0 missionaries appeared have been partly dictated by a lively sense of the grassness of the error which permitted such tragedies as 166 the murders of John and Beity Stam to shock the world. Mr. Bosshardt's experiences have been recorded in "The Restraining "Hand," a book which is having a wide' circulation. Indeed his release and that of his comrade Mr. Arnolis in the preceding November give a real meaning to the "Triumph. of John and Betty Stam," the title of the book which {ells of those young martyrs' life and suffering. Rudolf Bosshardt's ordeal captivity was nobly borne; It 163 carried him over 6,000 miles as a prisoner in Red hands. The ex. perience gave him a "fresh vision," 1 he says, evangelization."
wat, the "great need. for He was impressed by the thoroughness of the Communist pr machine, The 483 comment implicitly shows how eager} fare the people of China in their dire straits to have guidance and leadership. The revelation should encourage the Government in persevere-_ ing with the genuine activities of the People's Economfe Reconstruction Programme.
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