Refugees: My People
by Al Sanders
Miss Ruth Hitchcock’s porch not only overlooks the small harbor inlet, but also stands in the direct hurricane path. “As long as we are in His hands,” she smiles, “what else could one want?”
“ npHis is my home — near my people, the refugees,” -B- smiled Miss Ruth Hitchcock, veteran missionary to the Chinese. “I thank the Lord that I can now have a small part in training native Christian leaders who will be able ‘to teach others also.’ ” Miss Hitchcock serves with the Christian and Mis sionary Alliance Seminary on the island of Cheng Chau, just a few miles by boat from Hong Kong. There she teaches the Bible to earnest young men who have come to the school from all parts of the Orient preparing themselves for service among their own people. From her hurricane-struck home she can overlook the small fishing junks in the harbor and on beyond to the main land of Red China. “ Someday we may go back. Mean-
“It is the witnessing of funerals,” Miss Hitchcock sadly declares., “that brings the real heart break. Here at the water’s edge, a weird religious gathering assembles to pray to the spirits, “without hope and without God in the world.”
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