In the great, task of international reconciliation, the Bible is proving fits constant worth. Many. clashing tongues are heard on the streets and the trains of Manchuria, but there is a printed Gospel for every tongue. Recently, in consultation with Mr, Maruyama, veteran colporteur of the Society in Japan, Mr. Goforth worked out a plan for enabling Japanese to use the Bible as a short cut to learn the Chinese language, The plan, in short, ix to teach Japa nese students the Chinese National Phonetic Alphabet and then leave them to teach themselves Chinese Pronunciation with the Mandarin and Phonetic New Testament. Although the pronunciation of Chinese characters is different in Japan, the meaning of most characters is understood by Japanese
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