COVER STORY
Jessie
T ' v r. Jessie McDonald, with a I I friendly smile on her face, greeted the highly painted and powdered Chinese lady, attend ed by her husband and a retinue of soldiers. The lady politely said, “ I am a refugee from Shanghai and hear that this is the only modern hospital in the far southwest of China.” “Modem?” Dr. McDonald ques tioned. True, the stairs of the Tali hospital were of marble, but there were no glass windows, only thin, strong paper. And these were not whole, for the Chinese are a cur ious people. When one wanted to see what was going on in the hos pital, he had only to press a damp finger on the paper until it became a peephole. The latticed windows were beautiful, but unsanitary for a hospital. “We, too, are refugees,” Dr. Mc Donald explained. “We did man age to get through here to south west China with a few drugs and supplies before Burma fell, but our beds are hard and often our petrol lamp won’t work.” A strained expression crossed the woman’s face. She murmured, “ I think I’d best stay anyway.” She did, and her baby was delivered by the light of a cotton wick in a saucer of vegetable oil. Modem hospital or not, it was a delighted mother who left, walk ing behind a proud father and fol lowed by a soldier who carried the precious baby wrapped in red satin. It is memories like this which crowd the heart and mind of Dr. Jessie McDonald since her return from China. She dared to risk the truth of “ . . . he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it” (Matt. 10:39). In a day when the per centage of those applying for mis sionary service in the United States is decreasing, she is living proof of
ISI’s Finley <& Moslems
Mloslem missionaries have recently arrived on the West Coast to propagate their religion and build a mosque in San Francisco. Some of them have been interviewed by Allen Finley, regional director of International Students, Inc., an organization which seeks to lead foreign students to Christ. The missionaries plan not only to win converts to Islam but to keep Moslem students in the U.S. from accepting Christ. Finley says the leader of the Moslem group came to America from Pakistan largely because his son, who is a college student in California, was leaning toward Christianity from contact with American evangelicals. The Moslem team told Finley that widespread appeals are being made in the Islamic world for lay missionaries to go to America. Moslem leaders feel a spiritual vacuum exists in the United States and declare that Christianity here has produced a corrupt society in which moral standards have collapsed. The churches, they say, are without significant influence and are little more than social institutions. On the basis of these claims the leaders of Islam are enlisting their finest minds in a campaign to win America for Mohammed. Their missionaries on the West Coast include a professor, a businessman and a retired legislator.
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