"It is therefore meant that we should find an early opportunity to seek Christian fellowship and to take counsel together. Prompted by the love of Christ, you have unselfishly and sacrificially supplied us with a steady stream of preachers, teachers doctors and nurses and have built schools, hospitals and churches and have been the messengers of that wonderful Gospel that "God is love" and that He sent His only begotten Son for the salvation of the world, and you have exemplified by words, deeds and spirit, the Christian way of life. Above all you have laid the foundation for a Chi-hose Church with your own lives. To reward your labour and sacrifice, the good Lord has let you see partially ihe marvellous transformation already made in the Chinese nation politically, socially, intellectually and morally, "Now, are we going to be discouraged or defeated by the present crisis? Or are we going to see in it the possibilities for far greater progress
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.