else could I go?” Miss Kreick then told her that there was a place for her in heaven. Very sim ply she told the story of redeeming love and pressed home the truth that Jesus Christ had died to save her. “ This salva tion is for you,” Miss Kreick went on, “ if you will but believe on Him.” “ Believe?” the woman cried. “ Yes, I believe. No one had told me about Him before. I want Jesus to save me!” Some of our missionaries are giving full time to child evangelism, and while they are winning the little ones to Christ, they are also teaching older Christians how to do the same kind of work. It is a new thing for the Chinese to take active interest in the salvation o f children, but Mrs. Estella Kirkman tells of forming three child evangelism classes in Christian homes of Kunming, and Miss Hilda Riffel has captivated the interest o f churches in eastern China with her demonstration of visual aids in children’s work. Deep revival is going on in many of the educational centers of China. “ Stu dents are coming to Christ like the gathering of the clouds.” renorts Calvin Chao, General Secretary of the China Inter-Varsity Fellowship. About 6,000 out of China’s 120,000 college students are either converted or making earnest inquiry into the gospel. Several of our missionaries are giving full time to wit ness in China’s high schools and col leges, and others have assisted the Pocket Testament League in its timely presentation of annotated Gospels of John to hundreds of thousands of China’s soldiers. Modern methods are being used to proclaim the old-fashioned gospel to China’s ancient people. Some of our mis sionaries are using slide projectors with telling effect, and a few are equipped with public address systems and gospel recordings which amplify their voices
Y OU NAME IT ! What is your idea of effective missionary work? You will find just that kind of work going on in China today! Paul had a three-fold aim: to preach the gospel to those who had never heard it, to win souls and teach the converts, and to establish churches. Each of these three objectives is dependent on the other two, and the three together make a spear head o f advance into territory where Satan has long held sway. Preaching the Gospel to Those Who Have Never Heard Penetrating deep into the wilds of west China, Dr. A. J. Broomhall has just made an entrance into the long- forbidden country of the independent Nosu, traveling over land never before seen by a white man, much less by an ambassador o f Jesus Christ. This was no haphazard adventure. Years of prep aration and experience lay behind this pioneer exploit, and the barrage of prayer had so softened resistance that he was able to sum up the whole expedi tion by saying, “ The heart of Nosuland is wide open for occupation!” Tokens of God’s blessing on this advance were the conversion of Dr. Broomhall’s inter preter and of a famous and powerful Nosu chief. Alan Crane rejoices in firstfruits among the Wa tribe in his part of Yun nan province, where eight families in one village have turned to the Lord. These new Christians were immediately oppressed with heavy “ fines” for their
associating with the white man, but they have stood true to their Lord in the face of bitter- opposition. It took John B. Kuhn five months to criss-cross the hills of western Yunnan and make a survey of the tribespeople who live there. He listed one hundred different tribes. Only four of these tribes have been fairly well evangelized, while sixty or more o f them are wholly untouched. An unusual proportion of the China Inland Mission’s new workers were sent to the tribal fields in 1947. We are pressing on into new territory with steady, earnest evangelistic fervor. . Winning Souls and Teaching Converts Pioneer evangelism is not restricted to remote areas. Untouched fields are to be found in relatively accessible dis tricts—anywhere that souls are to be found who have not come under the sound of the gospel, and that means practically every part of China. Never have the people been so open to the gospel as now. Missionaries write from every province telling of hungry hearts —men and women, boys and girls, ready to accept the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour, if only some one will tell them of Him. For instance, this is what re cently happened in Yencheng, Honan: “ Where would you go if you should die?” Miss Katherine Kreick asked an old lady of eighty years. “ I’d go to hell,” the poor woman re plied with an air of finality. “Where
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