CHINA’S PROBLEMS
PRESIDENT AND MISSIONARIES.
COUNTRY AT THE CROSSROADS.
MENACE 01’ COMMUNISM. (United Press Association—By Electric T elegrapli.—Copyright.) Received December 4,8.5 U a.m. SHANGHAI, Dec. 3.
Expressing the hope that the Christian Church would assist in a just and peaceful settlement of the conflict between China and Japan, the President, General Chiang Kai-shek, solemnly entertained twenty-six foreign missionaries of every denomination at dinner at his Nanking residence. Chiang recently embraced Christianity through the Methodist Episcopal Church. Madame Chiang is also a Christian, and helped in the entertaining. Chiang told the missionaries that China was at the crossroads —the issue was peace or Bolshevism—and yrged the guests to pray for China. All present engaged in prayer. The President said nothing about the many Christian missionaries who have been brutally murdered ir. the territory under Nationalist control in recent years. The missionaries presented Chiang and his wife with a Bible, and pledged Christianity's support.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 4, 4 December 1931, Page 7
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