mg testimony of God’s grace, ministers to the Christians among the 40,000 civilians. But, even with a hundred thousand or more soldiers, what are they against so many millions on the mainland. And this, especially in the light of the Chinese Communist boss, Mao Tse-tung’s comment that he would be willing to sacrifice two hundred million of his people, for he would still have that many left. Life on the main land is not valued highly among the Red leaders. So, what could so few ever hope to achieve? The General smiled and asked me a question, “How did the Communists take over the mainland in the first place? With great arms, "God's Chastening" Christian, when thy way seems darkest, When thine eyes with tears are dim Straight to God thy Father hasten Tell thy troubles all to Him.. Not to human ear confiding Thy sad tale of grief and care, But before thy Father kneeling, Pour out all thy sorrows there. All thy griefs by Him are ordered; Needful is each one for thee; Every tear by Him is counted, One too much there cannot be. And if, as they fall so thickly, Thou canst own His way is right, Then each bitter tear of anguish Precious is in Jesus' sight. Though His wise and loving purpose Clearly yet thou mayest not see, Still believe with faith unshaken, All will work to good for thee. Therefore, when thy way is gloomy, And thine eyes with tears are dim, Straight to God thy Father hasten Tell thy troubles all to Him. large troops, moving forces? No, they did it psychologically. They took vast areas with words of promise, lies though they may have been. That,” he said, “is the way we shall some day soon return to the mainland.” All of these men have families and loved ones on the mainland. “What’s it
like there?” I asked, for I wanted to hear it firsthand. Again the General answered in precise terms, “Based on Mao-Tse-tung’s great leap forward pro gram, he has introduced the so-called “commune” system which organizes men and women and children into dif ferent groups. It forces them to live, labor, eat and drill together as one working military unit. Between hus bands and wives, parents and children, there can be no contact except as sched uled by official regulations. In fact, the system recognizes no private life, no family, no society, and no association of any kind except the party and the state. Men, women and children are herded together like animals, as beasts of burden, as machines or robots, and in struments for war. In this world, the Communist desire is that there will be no wives and no friends. Children will be taken from their mothers at birth as eggs are taken from a hen. There will be no emotions except fear, rage and self-abasement. It is the most gruesome event of our history, and” he said, “the end has not yet come.” As his eyes fell, I knew the words he spoke were truth, for from one end of the Orient to the other, we had heard it too many times, from too many voices, coming from too many places behind the Bamboo Curtain. Now this is not a program on politics, but I could not help but realize that with all of our program of foreign spending, the one thing our money has not done, possibly two things . . . it has not served to stem the oncoming crushing tidal wave of Satanic Communism . . . and then in other areas . . . it most certainly has not bought us friends. This made me more keenly aware of the fact that for all of the millions our government has poured into the Orient, our American missionaries have by far made a more lasting monument to peace and to stabilize the hopes and economy of the people. Why? Because the gospel of Christ alone can transform hearts and lives. The trip from Quemoy (Continued on next page) 29
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