Voice From Within
Foreign churches in Red China are “doomed … because the Reds have their own brand of religion which ignores God.”
These words were spoken recently in Hong Kong by an American woman after her arrival from Shanghai on a British freighter.
The woman, Mrs. Juanita Byrd Huang, formerly a missionary of the Southern Baptist Convention, said her husband, a businessman, arrived in Hong Kong a month earlier. She was free to leave 18 months ago but waited until her husband was safely out of the country.
Mrs. Huang, 53, said she had been in China since 1929, when she was commissioned by the Southern Baptist Convention for evangelistic work in the Shanghai area. This continued uninterrupted until her marriage in 1946.
She reported that she had taught English at St. John’s University and Shanghai University until these schools were “reorganized” by the communists.
‘Forced To Confess’
(The following item is taken from a sermon preached by the Rev. Robert W. Young, North Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh—ED.)
I remember seeing Dr. Albert Einstein walking Princeton’s streets as a refugee from Germany. He said, “Being a lover of freedom, when the revolution came to Germany, I looked to the universities to defend it, knowing that they always boasted of their devotion to the cause of truth; but no, the universities were silenced.
“Then I looked to the great editors of the newspapers, whose flaming editorials in days gone by had proclaimed their love of freedom, but they, like the universities, were silenced in a few short weeks.…
“Only the church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the church before, but now I felt a great affection and admiration because the church alone had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly.”
Digest …
► Methodist Church to build $4,000,000 theological seminary near Delaware, Ohio.… Southern Baptists contribute average of more than $1,000,000 daily during 1956 for all-time high in total giving of $372,136,675.
► Station WBKB, Chicago affiliate of ABC, to show “Martin Luther” on April 23.… Msgr. Edward M. Burke, chancellor of the Chicago Roman Catholic archdiocese, denies that archdiocese in any way responsible for same film being cancelled by WGN-TV last December.
► Three-and-half acre hotel property, with private ocean beach, acquired in Carlsbad, Calif., as home for aged by Lutheran Services, Inc., of San Diego. Purchase price, $450,000.
► Bill proposing to make Ten Commandments part of Arizona law introduced by Rep. L. S. Adams (D-Phoenix). Other 20 volumes of laws meaningless without Ten Commandments, he says.… Wheaton College hosts seventh annual Theological Conference May 3, with “Eschatology for Today” as theme.
► Dr. John R. Cunningham, president of Davidson College since 1941 and former moderator of Presbyterian Church in U. S. (Southern), named first executive director of Presbyterian Foundation. He will resign college post September 1.
Worth Quoting
“We need Bible-saturated preachers, whose very manner of life is involved in the language of Scripture.”—Dr. Dale Moody, Professor of Theology, Southern Baptist Seminary, Louisville, Ky.
“All originality and no plagiarism makes many a dull sermon.”—Dr. J. D. Grey, First Baptist Church, New Orleans, La.
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