pondence course and the bi-monthly Evangelist were in the thousands. Problems were evident such as that of "denationalization" of rural Chinese students at H.B.I. since the rather luxurious environment insuited them for a return to rural evangelism, particularly in . 89 the late 1930s. However, that was not consistently the case. By the end of __] 938, C.K. Cheng had returned to work at H.B.I. under Roberts, while Marcus Chen - under the auspices of the C.I.M. - became professor of New Testament and later President of Chung King The;logical Seminary. 90 He later went on to write under the Communist regime.9 1 - · i The Second World War brought an end to all classroom instruction. Roberts, however, led the Institute through the most perilous time. :In an .at tempt to thwart the Japanese move on Changsha, the :rat io~al is t forces began a "scorched earth" policy. The result was the al:;iost total. destruction of Changsha .f-n the ·1938 confligration. 92 At ·anc-e.:,. .:H .-B. I. ::.became a ref-ugee center as w·ell ·as hospital _: as the ...___ old Hudson Taylor facility had been destroyed in the burning city. The Institutes own buildings were severly damaged later during a fire ·fight between Nationalist and Japanese forces and American bombs. Again, in 1942, the medical work of H.B.I. was expanded to include a British Red Cross Hospital from October 1942 to September 1943 at a lease price of $9,000 a year. The agreement was signed by Roberts and W.S. Flowers for the British Red Cross. No charge was made for the Hudson !aylor Hospital work located in Milton Stewart Hall. The War Interlude, 1938 - 45
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