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and rifled. Some of my books had been destroyed, though the majority of them had not been touched. The contents of the files and desk drawers in my office had been scat tered about and the steel filing cases had suffered consid erable injury. The damage done to mission property, during Com munistic occupation, July 27 to August 5, is reported by Rev. C. C. Talbot, as follows: China Inland Mission. Completely looted and badly damaged; not burned. Hospital not looted; Blind School looted and used as barracks by “ Reds.” Near the Hunan Bible Institute. Norwegian Lutheran Mission. Thoroughly looted; buildings torn down to avoid burning. Outside Liu Yang Gate residences looted and damaged. Near the Hunan Bible Institute. Hunan Bible Institute. School buildings and furniture not damaged. Residences of missionaries and Chinese teachers looted but not damaged. Faith Orphanages. Allan Cameron’s. Petty thieving on July 28. Church o f Sweden Mission. Not damaged. Mission of the Evangelical Church. Tung P ’ai Lou Street premises: Church, residences and Girls’ School not damaged; other buildings torn down to avoid burning; petty thieving. Siao Wu Men Street premises : Only walls and part of roof left. English Wesleyan Mission. Safe, in the residence of Rev. W. H. Pillow, opened and robbed on the night of July 30. Church partly torn down to avoid burning; resi dences not touched. Seventh Day Adventist. Church partly torn down to avoid burning; petty thieving. American Church Mission (Episcopal). Church and small buildings looted and badly damaged on afternoon and night of July 30. School building burned; only part of walls standing. Residence of Rev. Walworth Tyng set on fire; fire extinguished by servants who also saved about one-half of the personal effects of the Tyngs. House and roof badly damaged: American Presbyterian Mission. On July 30, resi dences of Rev. W . H. Lingle, Rev. Ch’en Meng San, and part of the I-Seng School looted and burned. Residences of Rev. W . H. Clark, Miss Davis, and the lady teachers thoroughly looted and damaged. Four buildings of the Fu-Siang Union Girls’ School thoroughly looted and damaged. Ch’en-Chih School looted. New church build ing under construction not touched. Roman Catholic. Church completely looted, July 28 and 29, except one picture. Residence of the Fathers thor oughly looted and damaged, Foundling Home: A large part of the furniture, children’s clothing and bedding, and all drugs stolen. Residence of the Sisters completely looted and badly damaged. Hsiang-Ya Hospital (Hospital of Yale-in-China). Hospital buildings looted,July 28 and 30; all money, drugs and instruments stolen except the contents of two store rooms. Doors and windows broken.0Residences not looted. Petty thieving in Medical School. Yale-in-China. College buildings and residences not touched. Y. M. C. A . and Y. W. C. A. Mission buildings not touched. Y.M.C.A. residences thoroughly looted and dam-, aged. Very near the Hunan Bible Institute.
Faith Confirmed My faith in the Bible.is confirmed, in personal expe rience, by the adequacy of the good news it brings. It speaks o f pardon, adoption, comfort in sorrow, grace to help, victory in death, life everlasting. This bread satisfies the soul’s hunger; this river of salvation quenches the thirst; this armor of God is invulnerable; this sword of the Spirit is double-edged and invincible. — A . J. F. Behrends, D.D. A Missionary’s Estimate of Gandhi A new subscriber to T he K ing ' s B usiness , writing from India, gives the following interesting estimate of Gandhi and his work. “ May I, as a missionary of nearly thirty-eight years’ experience in India, put in a word concerning Gandhi? I am distressed at the attitude of overseas journalists. Gan dhi is a visionary, one who has undoubtedly the readiness of speech common to Indians; which gift has brought him vast sums of money—for which he never accounts to the public. He is entirely without gratitude to the Empire to which he owes every advantage, educational and otherwise, of his life. In India we have become familiar with him as an agitator for a suicidal policy, who seeks retirement oi arrest directly he realizes his enterprise a failure, and thus proves himself an arrant coward, leaving always be hind him a trail of bloodshed and murder. As missionaries, our work continues untouched by such unrest. In Madras last week an old Telugu military pensioner, a Roman Catholic, sitting by my side in the motor bus, asked if I did not think Gandhi was (an) Antichrist. The poor lepers in the asylums, the consumptives o f the hospitals, welcome the Gospel as before; they would not get it if Gandhi had his way and the white missionaries left India.” — o — hallow all the varied experiences of the common day—our home, our business, our recreations, our politics, our eco nomics, our studies—we can hallow them all by a spirit that never asserts itself in presumption or vulgarity, but which remains upon its knees as ever in the presence of the eternal and holy God. “ Know ye not that ye are the temple?” Have, then, a temple service where prayer pro ceeds without ceasing. Let us walk on into the temple of the Apostle Paul. If he were the temple, who was the priest? “ Present your bodies a living sacrifice.” Did the priest offer sacrifices in his temple? Yes, the fife was never out upon the altar. What did he sacrifice? Himself. “ I am poured out upon the altar.” He offered himself in a ceaseless dedication to his God. These are the temple services of the Apostle Paul. “ We thank God without ceasing.” “ We pray with out ceasing.” “ I am poured out upon the altar.” Thanks giving ! Supplication! Sacrifice! This was the temple ser vice that knew no ending. This is the nature of spiritual life. This is the worship in the spirit. This is the deep secret of home life as opposed to the uncertain life of the streets. “ Know ye not that ye are the temple?” Let your soul be a ceaseless worshiper. “ We worship God in the spirit.” Worship in the Spirit ( Continued from page 452)
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