1938 to see for herself how the struggle was arousing and uniting the spirit of the Chinese nation. Miss Strong is no mean judge of Chinese methods and personality. Her earlier book, "China's Millions," is an incomparable document of these forces at work in 1927, at the time of the northward movement of the Kuomintang. In this new book she draws her material from things she herself saw in Hankow and in northern Shansi in early 1938 when she was for ten days in a village at a military conference with the Commanders of the Eighth Route Army—Chu Teh, Peng Teh-hwai, Liu Peh-cheng, Lin Piao. Reports of other organizing work in interior China are gathered from many sources. China's resistance to Japan fs but one side of the present movement, as this author sees it; the cul-
Chapter IV is a verification of arguments. When people ask whether religious experience can be verified, they apparently mean that they want something as convincing as a photograph in astronomical study. Was some permanent mark left?—a mark which others can see? In religion there is no mark as on a photographer's plate, but we can reasonably look for a mark. in human lives. If the experience of God is what men claim it to be, we should expect to see a general change in character, to expect them to walk with a new step. Perhaps the Psalmist expresses the highest form of religious experience when he says: "Though I walk through the valley of the Shadow of Death I will fear no evil, for Thou art with me, Thy rod and Thy staff comfort me—rw-w.
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