Harrison - Biola in China

67 was martyred during the Cultural Revolution in 1974. He had

been a · critical writer in the late 1930s - and published articles

regarding science and the Bible - during his student days at

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Chen's twin daughters, ·Martha

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and Mary, were assistant editors while students at Yale in China

Medic~l College. Another son presumably served as translator

for the English language articles submitted for the Chinese

.~anguage bi-monthly magazine; he later bec~me a government trans– lator _for the People's Republic of China. 6 ~, , .The Chen family's ..!. -· - ~· .. • • .Ao • - ~ • ' ... • - ~ •. • .• - ... - . • ~ contributions were diverse and significant. The Evangelist found

Chinese pastors, evangelists, - and interested laymen as subscribers.

Overall, it was an extremely popular publication in . its ·day; ' ' I "' J ~ '- · .• subscription ra~es are unknown and all copies have disappeared. 70 :"'); -.~ .In_.,a poignant reflection ·of those ''Golden Days.'' R.B .. Chen, -- while a student ..a Shanghai Gniversi ty',· recalled visi -cing his paren1:S

at H·. B . I. · .for a ho 1 id a y dinner with the Ke 11 er s .

When my thought~ went back to the Biola days, I always, remember .Dr. Keller, a fjrst-rate faan :''in-· a. · rffrst-'tat 'e· Christian set up in China. He was a perfect gentleman trained in the best 1-Ne~ ~ :E.n.g~~nct, <:Fr~di~t~9ns .- ! . , Almo~~ . ?P·~-~ a year, ·--u:r-.-· ana·Mrs. Keller would invite my parents and . we children .to a dinner - Western fashion. On these . occasions, Dr. Keller always dressed in his immaculate tuxedo, black bow tie, and white handkerchief in his left breast pocket . . . The host and hostess would talk pleasantries. Dr. Keller would smile on the children. No one was thinking that at that moment within a radius of perhaps fifty or a hundred miles, a life and death fight had been going on for several years. No one seemed to be aware that pleasantries were 71 being exchanged over a social and political volcano. -- ~ - r.; : ,

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