The Archive · 1936

United Christian Front

Personal prejudices could not withstand the searching challenge of the need for a united Christian front across the national barriers, Two young pastors from China and Japan Fespectively found themselves shar~ Ing'a room, for instance, and becoming firm friends after a 24-hour con. fact, despite the fact that the Chin" ese had made up his mind that he would not even speak to his con panion, Each admitted the short Comings of his country and together they sought a solution through the multiplication of changed lives.

Interested to know the secret of the harmony and happiness "which characterized this varied gathering, the Chinese servants asked for a meeting of their own and a new ght was thrown on the "servant problem" by their action in handing over, on two occasions, sums of money which had been Toft in the dining-room, At the request of many visitors to Peitaiho, a public meeting was held fon the evening of Saturday, August Bin the crowded Assembly Hall, when "A. Remade World Through Remade Men" orneryed as the keynote of the addresses, These soul-stirring calls to action re-echoed the statement made by the Marquis of Salisbury in the course of a recent House of Lords debate:—"What we need, in the words of a remarkable movement now at work in this eountry, are God-guided personalities to God-guided nationalities make a new world." Among the speakers were Bishop Roots and his daughter Frances, a Chinese doctor from Shanghai, the honour student a Japan University and the wile of a retired American physician who brought news of the recent Oxford Group Assembly for North America Stockbridge, Mass, which was attended by about 10,000 people from many different countries. Evidence was given of a growing influence on national life in England, Norway and Denmark. From the latter country has come an Oxford Group song

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