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the efforts of Dr. Jaffray. Let us be thoroughly ashamed, becausewe had not promoted this work from within ourselves. We hadallowed a foreigner to steal the march on us.But were we so under-talented as some Americans viewed us?Any veteran Western missionary to China, who truly loved theLord and was unblinded, must from his conscience say otherwise,and such interpretation would not be far from the truth. Should theChinese Church be so under-talented, he could through love guideit. Appended below is an article by a veteran German missionaryto China. He sympathised with the Chinese missionaries’ situationand he concealed not to tell his feelings. Through him manyAmericans were touched to support the Mission. On the otherhand he had aroused the displeasure of a certain section who madethe writer a scapegoat for the Chinese missionaries.The article, “The Chinese Foreign Missionary Union andReform”, was penned by Rev. Gus Woerner in his capacity as aWestern missionary sympathetic to the Chinese Church’spromotion of overseas missionary enterprise. Every word and lineevinced the fervent hope he had for the Chinese Church becominga missionary Church. He was a prophet and a seer among Westernmissionaries. He was one filled with a passion for righteousness.This article of his was translated in Chinese and published in theMarch 1937 issue of the T’ung Wen Pao. I did not know whatwere the thoughts of our Chinese Christian readers. Though Godhad raised up this new enterprise in our Chinese Church and kepta big field – the Southern Archipelago for us to open up, wecontinued to loll and slumber. Look! As Joshua in days of oldcalled to the Israelites, there comes to us today a similar cry.Listen! Every Christian of China: “How long are ye slack to go topossess the land, which the Lord God of your fathers hath givenyou? (Joshua 18:3).66
The Chinese Foreign Missionary Union and Reformby Gus Woerner(translated back from the Chinese)The work of the Chinese Foreign Missionary Union and thatof the Christian and Missionary Alliance in the South Seas are1inked together, the Alliance there being a product of the CFMU.The founder of the CFMU is Dr. R.A. Jaffray, who is president ofthe CMA in the South Seas. Dr. Jaffray has been a missionary toChina for the last thirty-five years. He is a church statesman. He isone of the ten most well-known missionaries of the twentiethcentury. He is full of spirit for pioneer missions, havingestablished Churches in various places in inland Kwangsi. Nowthe Church of Kwangsi is steadily growing day by day. God hasalso used Dr. Jaffray in Indo-China. The Church in Indo-China isalso flourishing, as church buildings spring up in various places inKwangsi. Churches are built a hundred miles beyond importantcities. This is so from Hanoi in the north to Saigon in the south.These Churches shine forth the true light all round, well beyondtheir locations. Though the missionaries are scattered, they workhand in hand. Although such is the case, Dr. Jaffray’s evangelisticspirit burns like a torch and so he has opened another work in theDutch Indies.Since he has been a missionary to China, he loves theChinese. So he has begun to find out how many overseas Chinesethere are who have actually heard the gospel. He thought that inorder to get a clear picture of the situation he should not visit onlythe important cities and ports along the sea coast. So he got on asmall coaster that had no regular sailing schedule, that plied upand down there. On his first trip he visited Borneo, Celebes, andother islands. From his heart there arose a special vision. He feltthe Lord was calling for someone to go. On these islands therewere over two million overseas Chinese, mostly concentrated inthe towns along the sea coast, though there were those living67
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