Inculeating Self-Support Principles Great Boon To Christian Progress; War Hinders Work (THE period 1928/38, immediately following the disturbed revolutionary interlude of 1926-1927, was marked in the Haichow District by progress in practically all lings, From being sort of eddy, cut off from the main stream of commercial, social and political life, this district steadily pushed out into the main current. and was making rapid strides toward a commanding position in this section of China.
With a greatly improved Governmental system which had very largely put down banditry; with good railway, steamship and airway connections, and in possession of one of the best motor road networks to be fund in China, away from the immediate environs of such cities as Shanghai, Tientsin and the like, and this system of roads being improved steadily up to thg- beginning of hostilities this summer the Haichow Territory was ready for a general advance in material things. Of course, the present campaign of fighting has checked the material progress in this district.
Along spiritual lines progress, has een greater than along any material line. The Christian Church in the Haichow Distriet_ made phenominal advances in ten years, and the forward march continues in spite of ihe handicaps of war conditions,
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