Photographed for The King's Business by HUS K iLLM AN
W hen the ominous specter of com munism swept over China fol lowing World War II it snuffed out a Christian work that had taken decades to build. Today the British colony of Hong Kong is the last out post on the Chinese mainland for mis sionary activity. Hong Kong is composed of 390 square miles of mainland and islands and has a population of some two and a quarter million. There are 14,500 Europeans and Americans. The British have been doing a bustling business with Communist China but
in spite of the commercial boom the colony is flooded with homeless refu gees. There are huge areas of shanty houses and some 60,000 live on house boats. It is estimated that there are 100,000 cases of T.B. and some 250,- 000 children are without proper shel ter or schooling. Both Catholic and Protestant mis sionaries have flocked to Hong Kong after being pressured out of Red China. One Christian work to be transplanted was that of the Hunan Bible Institute located at Changsha (see map). Founded by Dr. Frank
A. Kellar and sponsored by the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, the Hunan Institute had buildings valued at one million dollars and for more than 30 years trained hundreds of Chinese young people. Today the Hunan In stitute is being used as an agricultural college by the Reds. But the work of the Institute still goes on in a different capacity in Hong Kong. Headed by Dr. and Mrs. Charles A. Roberts the activities in clude a church, a book room and a clinic, with future plans for a corre spondence course and a youth center.
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