CHINA INLAND MISSION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18089, 16 May 1933, Page 7

CHINA INLAND MISSION

COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA JAPAN’S RESTRAINING INFLUENCE SYDNEY, May 3. _ “Tho gravo danger to China to-day,” said the Rev. C. N. Lack at _ the annual meeting of the China Inland Mission, “comes from Communism. “Manchuria could . not have resisted the Communists’ penetration had it not been for the presence of the Japanese there,” lie added. “The Japanese have been able to stem this tide of iniquity. Under the Japanese there is perfect religious liberty, so that, even with the Red menace, mission work lias proceeded. Tho Japanese will keep the country in order, drive out the bandits, and keep good government. 1 expect soon to tear of a great revival in Manchuria. B China would only settle down and put her house in order, the Chinese would easily get rid of the Reds.” , “Communism is one ol China s tragedies,” said Mrs. T. 11. Andrews, a China Inland missionary of nine years standing. . . “Many thousands of Chinese have flocked 'from the Communist provinces for refuge,” Mrs. Andrews added. “They tell pathetic talcs of suffering. Their sufferings, indeed, are indescribable. Many have lost tlieir dear ones and all their worldly possessions. Cue yountr Chinese I know is making frantic efforts to rescue his young wile irom the Communists.” _ T The chairman (the Rev. C. N. Lack) said that tho China Inland Mission had 1327 missionaries. More than 130>0UU Chinese had been led to God., there wore 17 largo hospitals and more than 3QO Christian schools, and outstations ran into many hundreds. In addition, there were many thousands laitlitui Chinese workers. Miss F. M. Dibley (Szechwan) said that one day a Chinese girl of two or three years was brought into the mission dispensary an opium sot. lucre wero many others in China of similar tender years who wero opium addicts.