I am sure you have al} read those words of Gen. Chiang Kai-shek, written of his captivity in 1936. "From my captors," he writes, "I asked but one thing, a copy of the Bible. In solitude T had ample opportunity for reading and meditation. The greatness and love of Christ burst upon me with: new inspiration, increasing my strength to struggle against evil, to overcome temptation, to. uphold righteousness."
The book which influences individuals so Bowerfully has its inevit table effect on the larger, unit, the community and the nation. Arthui Mayhew, sometime director of Public Instruction in the Central Provinces of India, wrote, "The record of the life and personality-of Christ has done far more educationally for India than the whole of western literature.'
Sir Narayan Chandavakar likewise declared, "The ideas that lie at the heart of the Gospel are slowly but surely permeating every part of our society and modifying every phase of Hindu thought" Here one remembers the considered verdict of a great English historian, J. R. Green, concerning the English Bible, "No greater moral change ever passed over a nation than passed over England dur-
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