members of the independent "Chinese Board of Directors" as being out and out theological liberals. The majority of the faculty resigned in 1937. Roberts wa~ appointed superintendent in June, ~938. 86 His leadership emerged as the pall of the Japanese invasion darkened Hunan. Throughout the 1930s, civil war between Chiang Kai-Chek's KMD and Mao Tse-Tung's Red Brigades effected central China as Red A-fmy ___retreated through_ flunan.. Marc.~_s Chen and his famqy the / ~ appeared to be sympathetic with Mao, while Keller and Roberts sided with Chiang and the Nationalists. 87 In addition, two sons J pf r\ l I • of prominent Christian leaders within the organization strayed from their father's beliefs. First, the Scofield scholar, C.K. Cheng's son j9ined the Communist Party despite his education - . :.... • - - _, . . . - .....___ . (..· .... . i • - ... • deg~~~ f~qm W~ Chang Ce~tral China College, faculty participation at ..H.-B.I., a~d an appointment as a high _school princip_al._ Second, one of the evangelistic team leaders and deans of H.B.I. during the mid-1930s, Mr. Hsiao, was betrayed by his Ph.D. Columbia I fl J ) - I "\, } univer s ii fy ; :New Py a r-· k ,"' r:. educated ~ s 0 n.-·: w h 0 : j o'l'n ~ d :.che - Japanese cause . 88 ~i1 j_ .· .. ' .' . . 1920s - 1930s {). 1920s through the mid-1930s demonstrates that there were successes. If the enrollment figures are correct, the Institute graduated at least two thousand students over a twenty year period. No less than ten evangelistic bands operated up to the start of World War II in the face of great danger. The numbers touched by the corres- : (l'.uJ.fi l - \ -te ""S I~ An e va 1 uat ion of the Hunan Bib 1 e Ins t it u t e ' s work in the -----
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