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FOREIGN MISSION BOARD 233
of Challenge." Leader's helps in a separate booklet are furnished by the P'oreign
Mission Board.
FOR G. A'S AND R. A'S (JUNIORS)
This Is My Father's World. In this study course, Margaret T. Applegarth
tells of junior girls and boys of Africa, Japan, China, Italy, and Palestine, presenting
them in such a way as to make them live in the minds and hearts of
imaginative Juniors. Leader's helps, under separate cover, abound in unique
suggestions.
FOR SUNBEAMS (PRIMARY)
God Is Love in Any Language. Mrs. Clyde V. Hickerson has presented five
stories of winsome little Mexican children who are learning that "God is love."
The stories, told in simple language, reveal the attractiveness of our little Mexican
neighbors and their need of the friendship of Jesus. Leader's helps are in a
separate booklet.
These study books are to be ready for use in the late summer or early autumn.
Several basic books—histories, and biographies—are ready for the press; but
post-war shortages of paper and labor prevent their immediate publication.
THE ORIENT
BAKER I. CAUTHEN, Secretary for the Orient
The Orient in Search of Peace
He will speak peace.—Psalm 85:8
The year 1945 began with the world still in the grip of war. No one could
say how long it would be until peace would come. Even after the fall of
Germany the situation in the Orient was uncertain. How desperately the
Japanese would continue to resist was a great question. Missionaries could
lay no plans for return t6 the fields.
Under these circumstances a mere handful of missionaries carried on in
China. At Macao the work continued and in Chungking a new center of Baptist
activity was developed. It was in this latter city that the work in Free China
concentrated after the fall of Kweilin.
A group of missionaries did notable service in connection with the armed
forces. They trained Chinese interpreters, and they also served as liaison
officers. In this work they found opportunity for witness to many people who
would not otherwise have heard the gospel, and their efforts resulted in many
professions -The sudden of faith ending and of in hostilities establishing with helpful Japan contacts brought for us missionary immediately service. into
the long-awaited post-war era. A few days after the articles of surrender were
signed in Tokyo Bay, representatives of our missions in China and Japan met
in Richmond to discuss plans for re-projecting mission work in the Orient.
DELEGATES TO THE ALL CHINA BAPTIST PRELIMINARY CONFERENCE
Shanghai, February 11-14, 1946