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sionary physicians in learning to control
he development. and
sleeping sickness, malaria, yellow fever,
China Wants Lasting Peace
ndustries and natural
leprosy, and other epidemic and infectious
of education, and
diseases. The villages, in most colonies, de-
China has just come through the most ter-
culture to a people
pend largely upon missionaries for effective
and the Christian people of the world car
rible war in her recent history, perhaps of
eager
to
personal and public health services.
give her. With vast areas, and great un
learn.
her forty centuries of history.
missionaries are al-
There is potential good and potential
touched resources, plus an intelligent and
Four hundred million people, more
task, conscious of the
evil, potential war and potential peace on
hard-working citizenry, her life could again
racially unified than any similarly-sized
the continent of Africa. The development
as in centuries ago, be self-sustaining; she
group on earth, are hoping to achieve more
of good and peace will entail sacrifice by
will never be an "aggressor nation"; she can
recently introduced
centuries of peace and progress. At the
church people and by powerful interests
become, if others cooperate with her, a
pread adult literacy
moment, she does not seem united politi-
great stabilizing power in Asia.
a vast system of
and nations. It will cost the world some-
cally; but in other fields she seems to have
thing. But evil and war-in Africa, or from
China needs, and needs badly, a vast
they are preparing
found a new unity, a new strength, a new
Africa-will cost far more. Do we "mean
program of public health. Her National
new reading millions.
sense of her potential place in Asia and in
ntroduced agricultural
the world.
Health Administration, under the Chung-
peace"?
king government, calls for 655 new hospi-
tools, and crops
If the future of any great people is in
tals, 20,000 new well-trained Chinese
they are teach-
the crucible today, it is the future of China.
M.D.'s, and perhaps 100,000 trained nurses
the dignity of labor,
The following comparative figures of
And there, as perhaps nowhere else among
Christian missions, including those of
great gift of earth
the growth of the Methodist Christian
so great a mass of non-Christian, Christian
the Methodist Church, already have under
Community in central Africa is made
ideals have an opportunity to become a part
way plans to equip new hospitals, and to
teaching industrial
by Dr. Thomas S. Donohugh:
of the nation's philosophy, and Christian
greatly increase present facilities for train-
to operate their
1944
Increase
people have an opportunity to serve. On
1940
ing doctors and nurses. It is a stupendous
tories, to use brain as
Angola
13,000
21,196
124%
that service may depend the peace of Asia
task-but no costlier than the ill-health or
continent's expanding
Congo Central
8,938
19,161
114%
and of the world during coming decades.
Congo Southern
12,431
19,086
53%
lack of sanitation among a great people.
For, during these years of warfare and
Liberia
9,105
10,099
10%
China needs technically-trained leaders
medical work as one
Rhodesia
10,432
17,797
70%
the sorrows that war entails, China has
for post-war industry and agriculture, and
of their ministries.
Southeast
5,583
12,800
130%
found the meaning of "service in the name
preferably Christian leaders with a service
efforts, private foun-
Totals
59,489
108,130
90%
of Jesus Christ." She has seen her refugees
motive
The Chungking government
overnments and mis-
fed and clothed and sheltered, her orphaned
wisely exempted college students from mili-
children gathered into homes and schools,
tary service, and the colleges and univer-
her sick and wounded cared for in hospitals
sities maintained by American and British
and by nurses and physicians, her future
churches (through the Association of China
leaders-young women as well as young
Christian Colleges) continued throughout
men-gathered into colleges and universi-
the war to provide training for increasing
ties and prepared for tasks ahead: all this
thousands. The trek of some of these Chris-
she has seen accomplished, without stint of
tian institutions thousands of miles from
money and with sacrifice often of life itself,
"occupied" to "free" areas is one of the epics
by her own Christian sons and daughters,
of the war years.
and by Christian volunteers from America
China needs Christ in its new day
and from Europe. China has opened her
"In the old China," says Dr. F. Olin Stock-
heart and her mind to these messengers and
well, of Chengtu, "the religions never
doers of goodwill. And she has learned, too,
demanded much from the laity-never
that many of her top-ranking leaders of the
much in time, talent, or money. The lay-
war and pre-war years profess the Chistian
man faced no challenge to win others to his
faith.
faith, or educate them to its truer mean-
As China readjusts her life from one of
ings. Moral and social reform, with the
warfare to one of peace, she will have need
laymen bearing a major responsibility to
of much that the Christian church of China
create new ways of life, were almost un-
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