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FOREIGN MISSION BOARD 237
While the Macao Church has managed to meet its budget, because of the
large number of refugees who flocked here from Hong Kong and Canton when
those places fell, on the other hand, on my advice, because of the precariousness
of the situation here, all of our members who could do so, moved into
Free China while there was a chance to get through, leaving only twenty to
thirty of our original membership.
The baptisms during this period have been almost entirely of such refugees,
and now that these and the Christian refugees who have been living here, are
returning to their homes, the Macao Church may also be reduced to requiring
3ome temporary financial relief from the Foreign Mission Board until a new
membership can be built up. Of course such help will only be sought as a
last resource.
I will reserve for another letter, the facts about the conditions in Macao
during these years of siege.
With every good wish,
Sincerely,
(Signed) JOHN L. GALLOWAY
NORTH CHINA
Tsingtao. Three of our missionaries—Rev. Frank H. Connely, Rev. C. L.
Culpepper and Dr. N. A. Bryan—have returned to this area where clinics and
evangelistic work are being resumed with great effectiveness.
The interior stations of North China were not, according to our latest
reports, accessible, but Rev. J. A. Abernathy, who has been able to return to
the North China Mission, reports that all the Chinese Baptist preachers are
loyally and efficiently carrying forward the work.
MANCHURIA
That northern land of continued strife has not yet been re-entered by any
of our missionaries. However, Rev. C. L. Culpepper is planning to make a
survey of the field and as soon as the way opens, eighteen of our missionaries
are ready to enter that country in which, prior to the war, we had only
one missionary—Miss Reba Stewart.
INTERIOR CHINA
Kaifeng. From this strategic center comes word of dauntless loyalty on
the part of the national Christians and their Chinese leaders. The people seem
hungry for the gospel and the church work is going forward despite difficulties
and hardships.
During Japanese occupation the entire compound (campus) of the True
Light Middle School was taken over by the enemy, the building being used for
a Japanese hospital unit. However the property is once more in the possession
of its rightful owners, and the school, under the able leadership of that earnest
Chinese Christian, Peter Lee, is again ministering to China's youth.
WEST CHINA
Chungking, China's war-time capital, with approximately 700,000 people, is
indeed a place of opportunity. Here, as in countless other places the Baptist
church has carried on ably under Chinese leadership, during the days of war s
turmoil and terror and tragedy. As in the case of the great apostle, so among
the Christians in China, the things which happened unto them "have fallen out
rather unto the furtherance of the gospel."
As in the early days of the Christian era, "they that were scattered abroad,
went everywhere preaching the word." Christian men and women, fleeing as
refugees from the Japanese-occupied areas of eastern China, carried with them