Harrison - Biola in China

- · Social and relief work continued at a massive pace throughout and following the wars end. At once refugee accomodations and relocation, alongside a makeshift orphanage, appeared on campus. At one point, the Hunan Provincial Government took root at H.B.I.; the former buildings destroyed in 1938. All the while Roberts, \ the only American missionary working at the Institute, juggled all of these enterprises, which later included the United Nations and Chinese relief and rehabilitation administratio~s.9 3 These associations, with the Nationalist govern~ent as well as the United Nations, were used against Roberts by the Communist govern– ment to permanently expel him from China in 1948. 94 ..:__-- 1946-47 brought two . additional missionary families through Biola channels: Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Cory ~nd Mr. and Mrs. Russ Davis~ 95 With the United Nations and Chinese organizations still on campus - ai.orrg wfth .ho .spi tals, · · refu·gees~ and orphans . - · H.B. r°. · preparea- to reopen · the school. in... the faH of 1946; afte~ a, nine yea~ int·ervaL 96 ~---___.-.... The ·first class had twenty students registered but did not start until the winter of 1947. 97 Partial reconstruction of the facilities commenced after a visit by Louis T. Talbot, Biola's Chancellor, and Business Manager Russ Allder to the Changsha campus. 98 A major business meeting held at Changsha with Talbot, Allder, Roberts, Davis, and Cory launched H.B.I. into an expanded ministry of Bible \ Institute, Seminary, evangelistic bands, Scofield department as well) as a permanent orphanage - and incorporation of the Hudson Taylor Hope to the End

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