5

Ch'iang, 52

childhood in, 108

Christian Educational Union, 50, 56, 266, 271, 277

church union, 50

churches in, 42, 274

cooperation in, 157

development of, 206

Diocesan Association for Western China, 55, 272, 410, 450, 467

Diocese of, 410

Disciples of Christ, 369

Dolan Expedition, 345

evangelism, 219, 357

Goucher Primary School Unit (Chengtu), 266

health education, 56

maps, 68, 78, 169

Mennonite Brethren Church of North America, 15, 119, 135, 387

Methodist Church, 227, 230, 274, 365

Methodist Episcopal Church, 32, 39, 49, 56, 83, 230, 274, 300
  conference, 49, 102, 142-3, 355
  mission, 150, 152, 266, 300, 325
  missionary society, 229, 274
  women, 49, 102, 274

Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 142

minority nationalities, 42, 52

missionary conferences, 40, 50, 56, 172, 245, 277, 355

Missionary News Publication Committee (Chengtu), 480

missions, 10, 49, 55, 150, 152, 266, 294, 300, 325

Missions Advisory Board, 50, 83, 277

Nanking Theological Seminary, 391

outfit lists, 36

Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., 353

Quakers, 66, 323

Religious Tract Society, 50, 56, 226, 266, 276

slides, 100

Southern Baptist Convention, 277

travel route, 336

Union Middle School, 227, 259, 266, 277, 355

Union Theological College, 36, 227, 259

Union Theological Seminary, 13

United Christian Missionary Society, 12

United Church of Canada, 277

United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., 354

wartime, 275

Women's Medical College for West China, 227

Youth and Religion Movement Mission, 50, 278

West China Union University (Chengtu), 38, 44, 50, 52, 78, 98, 105, 150, 159, 163-4, 226-7, 229, 254, 259, 266, 279, 283, 290, 297, 323, 339, 362, 391, 479-80

Archives, 165

architectural plans, 266

Board of Governors, 266, 277, 355

May 21, 1941

Ningpo, Chekiang

Mr. Smith got home from Yuyao this afternoon. He
had a quieter time up there during the occupation than
we did. But he had the difficulty of being the only
foreigner in the community. Now that he is back I can
turn back to him, some of the jobs I was doing in his
absence. That will give me a little more time to get
our household packed and ready to go.

May 25, 1941

Ningpo, Chekiang

More fleas! We cannot seem to get entirely rid of them. I thought I had finished the source of them out in an extra room in the servants quarters, but evidently they are still around. It is a terrific battle to try to live decently in these old houses. We are fortunate to have escaped disease for so long with so many sources of infection around.

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White Wolf Raiders, 292

Whitinsville (MA), 222

Whitman College, 397

Whitney Hospital (Ingtai), 159

Who's Who in America, 270

Wiant Memorial Residence, Yenching University, 33

Wiley General Hospital (Kutien), 35, 158, 227, 277, 331

Wiley Institute (Peking), 50, 266, 277

Wiley School of Theology (Peking), 38

Wilhelmina Hospital (Amoy), 270

William Gamble Memorial Hospital for Women and Children
(Chungking), 150, 272, 277

William Nast Academy, 227

William Nast College (Kiukiang), 229, 242, 266, 277

Williams College, 64

Williams Hospital, 39, 277, 279

Williams-Porter Hospital, 159, 161, 277

Willingen Conference, 340

Willis F. Pierce Memorial Hospital (Foochow), 158, 161, 277, 325

Wilmay Memorial Hospital, 113

Window of Y.W.A., The, 1

Winnetka Resolution, 158

Winter Palace, 132

Winthrop College alumnae, 365

withdrawal of missions, 139, 158

W.M.U. See Women, Missionary Union

May 26, 1941

Ningpo, Chekiang

I went to see Miss Harris at the hospital this morning. During our short conversation she mentioned that there is bubonic plague in the city again. That news hit me like a shot from a rifle. The dead rat we had found in the parlor! The scourge of fleas! I came home immediately and told Ellen. When she heard the news, she cried out as if she had been stabbed. Then we both sent to work on the job of ridding the house of fleas.

Fortunately, I had set out rat poison a few days ago. We had also caught two in traps. But to clean the fleas out of this old house and to keep them out is literally impossible. The place is so old that there are wide cracks in all the floors, and in all the wood-work. The fleas can get back in there and we cannot reach them.

I did use a flit gun to blow flit into all the cracks and we carried all bedding and all clothes out and shook them and aired them. Then we mopped the floors with water and kerosine.

We carried and mopped and moved until I can hardly stand on my feet. Well, if there is plague in these fleas we have already all been innoculated and will join the immortals. It would be too bad to live through five years of war and then fall victims to insignificant fleas!

May 30, 1941

Ningpo, Chekiang

Captain Kita is in Shanghai, but I did see his subordinate, Lieutenant Veda. He said he could help us get to Shanghai. But this, too, was an informal and noncommittal conversation.

We are going ahead with our packing and our plans in the faith that there will be a way out about June fifth.

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Church of the Brethren, 100, 124

Church of the United Brethren in Christ, 122

Church Training School for Bible Women (Soochow), 272

College of Baltimore City, 150

College of South China (Foochow), 277

Congregational Christian churches, 278

East China, 2, 294

education of, 54, 159, 170, 338

by Baptists, 116, 143, 366

and Bible stories, 338

South China, 116, 143, 366

Episcopal Church, 377

evacuation, 385

Evangelical Church, 220

Federation of Woman's Boards of Foreign Missions of North

America, 2, 273, 361, 380

Fenchow, 148

financial support of, 85, 185, 245

First Baptist Church (Cartersville, GA), 86

First Methodist Church (Springfield, IL), 104

Foochow, 29, 56, 102, 111, 143, 146, 148, 157, 159-60, 170, 230, 260, 273-4, 277, 300, 322, 331

Foreign Women's Home (Shanghai), 273

Fukien, 159, 322

German missionaries, 462

Hackett Medical College for Women (Canton), 273, 344

Hartford Baptist Church (Hartford, Kentucky), 138

Hinghwa, 49, 102, 230, 300, 310, 322, 333

homelife, 40

hospitals, 50, 148, 151, 159-60, 272-4, 277, 285-8, 350, 372

Huchow Woman's School, 185, 273

Hwa Nan College (Foochow), 111, 146

India, 124, 455, 459

International Friends Institute, 278

Kaifeng Baptist Industrial School for Women, 370

Kiangsi, 56, 82, 102, 170

Language School (Yangchow), 111

Linhsien, 350

London Mission, 274

Mary Morrill Woman's School (Paoting), 159

medical colleges, 227, 259, 278, 347

Medical College of Pennsylvania, 288, 349, 352

medical missionaries, 348

Medical Society of New York State, 245

medical studies, 245, 290, 346

medical work, 322

Methodist Church,

Board, 11

Foochow Conference, 331

Foreign Missionary Society, 210, 285, 287, 333, 365

Hinghwa Conference, 333

North China Conference, 121, 274

June 1, 1941

Ningpo, Chekiang

We badly needed this day of rest. Packing and selling out, along with the uncertainties of leaving, have worn us down.

Fortunately, as far as we know, there has been no more than one case of plague. But the uncertainty is still present and we are on a constant search for fleas and rats.

We had the usual church services today, but the chapel was packed full for the first time in months. One man and three girls joined the church this morning.

That service was an interesting contrast to the few frightened beggars who made up the congregation the Sunday after the fighting.

June 2, 1941

Ningpo, Chekiang

Day by day we are getting more packing finished and a few more things sold. We still hope we can go on Tuesday, but nothing is definite. The Liaison office has told Tomlinson that we must wait two more weeks because of the plague. We also have to get plague inoculations.

We spent the whole morning, from nine until one, at a meeting of representatives of the three missions to settle some of the difficulties arising from disbanding Riverbend School. Still it is not settled. All the meetings we have had recently have been to settle disbanding problems.

I think that this general change of all conditions can be used to some good advantage. Some of the problems which we saw, but could not remedy, have been wiped away.

When we begin again we can begin clean and the past experiences ought to help us keep schools operating better than they were before.

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Presbyterian Church of England, 50

Primary and Junior Baptist Women's Bible School, 389

Reformed Church in America, 56, 261, 276, 279

Reformed Church in the U.S., 285

rights, 205, 283

role of, 203, 261

rural, 338

Shanghai, 273, 286, 288, 295, 305, 378

Shantung, 49

Shaohsing, 295

Shaowu, 158, 322

Sisters of Charity of St. Elizabeth catechumenate, 223

Sisters of the Order of St. Benedict, 197

Society of the Transfiguration, 317

Soochow, 273

South China, 116, 143, 266, 294-5, 338, 366

status of, 170, 283

Suifu, 277

Swatow, 294

Tientsin, 287

Theological Seminary for Women, 157

Union Bible School for Women, 227, 259

Union Bible Training School (Peking), 121, 159-60, 275

Union Medical College for Women, 241, 288

Union Missionary Society, 50, 115, 180, 289

Union Women's College, 159, 266

United Church of Canada, 277, 428

United Methodist Church Kansas West Conference, 137

Universalists, 161

University of Nanking, Women's College, 477

unmarried missionaries, 199-200, 202-3, 319

in villages, 101

Wesleyan Missionary Society, 27, 49, 91, 112, 134, 230, 379

West China, 49, 102, 142, 174, 230, 274

Women for America Rally, 20

Wuchang, 274

Yale-in-China Women's League, 64

Yangchow, 111

Yenching College for Women, 40, 52, 67, 158-9, 178, 265, 335

Yenping, 49, 102, 274, 300, 331

Young Women's Christian Association, 44, 184, 283. <u>See also</u>
girls; missionaries, wives of

woodblock prints and woodcuts, 9, 73, 110, 118, 134-5

Woodstock College, 71

Woolston Memorial Hospital, 285

Woosung, Episcopal cathedrals, chapels, and churches in, 378

workers, 9-10, 289, 337

June 3, 1941

Ningpo, Chekiang

I went to see Captain Kita again yesterday. He
said to wait awhile - perhaps two weeks to go to
Shanghai. That is not very good news, but there is
nothing to do but to wait.

If we must wait we can find plenty to do. There
is a huge stack of letters to answer. And there is a
great amount of reading and writing to be done.

The three remaining Americans, Mr. and Mrs. Smith
and Miss Gauss, had a farewell tea for us this after-
noon. We played croquet and badminton on the lawn and
all had a good time.

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World Affairs Interpreter, 356

World Association of Daily Vacation Bible Schools, 485

World Church, 267

World Comrades, 1

World Conference of Christian Youth, 83, 315

World Council of Churches, 40, 48, 352

World Evangel, 315, 393

World Gospel Mission, 123. See also National Holiness Association Missionary Society

World Mission, 211

World Mission Conference, 158
Continuation Committee, 50, 96, 113, 235, 266
Edinburgh (1910), 6, 40, 50, 243, 265, 392
Presbyterian Church in Canada, 110
Shanghai, 268, 338
Special Committee on Christian Education in the Mission Field, 268

World Outlook, 33

World Student Christian Federation (Geneva, Switzerland), 48, 50-1, 54-5, 83

World War I, 46, 319

World War II, 12, 45, 108, 132, 170, 182, 200, 238, 303-5, 352
American Volunteer Group (Flying Tigers) in, 28
Chefoo, 109
Chungking, 199
church work, 352
conditions after, 304
Congregation of the Religious of the Sacred Heart, 18
conscientious objectors to, 99
correspondence codes, 403
garrisoning of Tientsin by U.S. Army, 336
German mission, 77
and Japanese, 77
Kaifeng, 197
Lutheran work, 199, 201
and missions, 143, 279
property claims, 399
relief, 74

June 5, 1941

Ningpo, Chekiang

I spent most of the morning trying to find a place
to get plague innoculations. Chinese and mission hos-
pitals have no serum. The places where the Japanese
have been operating are out of serum.

There seems to be no further hope of getting away
very soon. Perhaps it is a good thing since we are not
yet ready.

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Christian and Missionary Alliance, 291, 473

converts, 181

hospitals, 286, 367, 389

leprosy out-patient clinics, 224

Maryknoll, 181, 250

medical missionary, 370

Southern Baptist Convention, 286, 481

Wesleyan Methodist Mission, 286

Wuhan, 159

Christian schools in, 22

missionary prayer meeting, 355

war, 141

Yale Missionary Society, 288

Yali, 64

Young Men's Christian Association, 249, 328, 381

Wuhu,

Advent Christian Church, 89-90, 299, 395

American Episcopal Diocese, 408

churches, 299, 378

Dentistry School, 287

Episcopal cathedrals, chapels, and churches, 378

hospitals, 227-8, 278, 285, 292

Methodist Episcopal Mission, 285

missions and missionaries, 20, 89, 285, 292, 395

Spanish Jesuits, 20

Wuki, 223

Wukiaho, Evangelical Covenant Church in, 92

Wukingfu, Presbyterian Church of England Mission hospital, 285, 287

Wusheng, mission in, 368

Wusih, 173

hospitals, 170, 286, 378, 384

Wu Wei (Kansu), China Inland Mission in, 111

June 7, 1941

Ningpo, Chekiang

Mr. Tanigouchi came from the Liaison office with blanks for us to fill out. The accompanying note said that all foreigners in Ningpo would be given traveling passes. Whether the passes are to be only local or whether they will take us to Shanghai we could not make out.

At any rate there seem to be no boats on which to use them.

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W.A.B.F.M.S. See Women's American Baptist Foreign Mission Society

Wai Chow, Hakkas in, 301

Wai Hui, 363

Wai Hwei Kindergarten, 279

Wai Ling School for Girls (Chefoo), 167

Wake Forest College, 307

Walker missionary home, 157

Wallace Memorial Baptist Church, 367

Walther League, 215

Wan kuo kung pao (The Globe Magazine: A Review of the Times), 9, 13-4, 27, 31-2, 66, 82, 84-6, 88, 98, 149, 163, 314, 334, 363, 381

research guide to, 34, 67

and Young J. Allen, 102, 153, 226, 248, 302

Wanhsien, 61, 215

war, 122, 137, 157, 267, 332

and Advent Christian Mission, 90, 168, 299

American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, 158

camps, 141

and Catholic church, 18, 77, 124

Chinese civil, 28-30, 45, 111, 114, 182-3, 205, 210, 238, 345, 366

economic and political situation, 210

School Sisters of Saint Francis schools, 401

and U.S. Army, 336

and Chinese universities, 53

Christian colleges, 54

Christian literature, 127

and Chinese women, 59

Chungking, 199

and church, 18, 36, 113, 124, 165, 275

claims, 16-7, 284, 341

conditions, 42, 159, 303-4, 339, 351, 391

daily life, 62

damage, 53-4, 64, 158

Daughters of Charity, 216

economy, 303-4

June 9, 1941

Ningpo, Chekiang

I sat more than half an hour waiting to see Captain Kita today and when he did finally appear he only had the disappointing information that we must wait until next month to get to Shanghai. I asked if we could go out on a military cargo boat, but he said that would be impossible. There just seems to be no way at all.

We are well along in our packing. In case of necessity we could get away a few hours after notification.

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Watlam, Maryknoll Fathers at, 250

Wayland Academy (Hangchow), 277

weather, storm map, 178

weddings, 80, 320

Week in China, The, 160

weights and measures, Chinese, 11

Wei Hsien (Wei Hien) (Shantung), 176, 356

Benedictines, 203

girls' schools, 8

hospitals, 148, 271, 286-7, 353

internment camps, 109, 111, 125-7, 137, 203, 245, 333

leprosy out-patient clinic, 224

mission, 8-9, 23

Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., 56, 276, 286-7, 355

Second Shantung Missionary Conference (1898), 40

Shantung Christian University, 308

Sisters of Providence, 125-7

Weihu, Disciples of Christ in, 368

Weihwei, Presbyterian Church, Canada, mission hospital, 287

Wei li pao, 258, 264

Wei Ling Girls' Academy (Soochow), 308, 389

Weishih Hospital, 121

Wei yin yüeh k'an, 258, 264

welfare, 197, 259

Wellesley Alumnae Magazine, 178

Wellesley College, 178-9, 296, 361

Wellesley College News, 179

Wellesley-Yenching, 52-4, 59, 88, 178

Wen hsüeh nien pao (Chinese Literature Annual), 66

Wen hua t'u shu k'o chi k'an (Boone Library School Quarterly), 181

Wen Shan Girls' School (Orlinda Childs Pierce Girls' School) (Foochow), 51, 277

June 11, 1941

Ningpo, Chekiang

Mr. Tomlinson came in right after lunch saying that we can go June thirteenth.

Mr. Slater had been in Captain Kita's office to see about his passes and Kita told him to inform us that we could go. I got on my bicycle and went down with Tomlinson to see Kita. We learned that the boat will arrive in Ningpo on the thirteenth and that we can go out with it when it goes out.

The Catholic fathers had been just ahead of us and had been refused, supposedly because they want to come right back. We want to go on home leave and that seems to be more acceptable.

Before going we must have another innoculation for Plague. This we can get tomorrow morning at the Chekiang Provincial Bank.

June 17, 1941

Ningpo, Chekiang

Finished answering the fifty history questions this morning. No boat came today and waiting is getting more and more tiresome.

I read more of H. G. Wells "Experiment in Auto-biography." If all the rest of his writing is as poor literature and as dull thinking and as illogical as this, it is a sad commentary on the minds of the masses of Englishmen who have read his writings.

I am reading a little of his work to see if he has anything at all to offer toward a solution of present social problems. So far, I have found nothing.

June 20, 1941

Ningpo, Chekiang

Our boat came in - we got our tickets and passes
and were all set to leave the house at 2:00 P.M. to
embark. But word came at 1:30 P.M. that sailing had
been postponed another day. So here we are again,
settling in for another night in Ningpo.

There is a sign on the boat stating that she will
sail tomorrow at 5:00 P.M. Nothing can be certain
these days until it is accomplished.

The Japanese man who sold me the tickets seemed
nice. He spoke good English and volunteered that he
was a Christian. He made this interesting statement:
"Japanese and American individuals can be intimate
although the two nations are not friendly." I quite
agreed with him and added that I hoped the nations
could soon be friendly.

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ARCHIE R. CROUCH
AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN MISSION
NINGPO, CHEKIANG, CHINA

July 22, 1941

Dear Thad and Mrs. Ames,

I know that I have not written you anything but the briefest
notes for quite a long time. If I remember correctly the last
note was written just after the occupation of Ningpo to tell you
that we were all right. I hope you got that one. In the meantime
I have sent out one printed letter. I think it is in the mail on
this boat and will probably reach you nearly as soon as this. There
are more details of what happened there.

That day--or really--those two days of fighting were very hard
times for us. In addition to the responsibility of our own lives
we had between two and three hundred Chinese women and children and
a lot of mission workers to watch out for. The closest calls we
had on our lives were caused by attempts to care for these refugees.
They had not the slightest idea of the danger they were in. Do
what we could, they would be continually running about and back
and forth. A bunch of them running out in open sight across our
border drew the only rifle fire we had on our house. And during
the fire I had to run out and get them all back of a wall out of
the way. Then again when the pastor and I went to the school build-
ing to try and quiet the people we got fired on again. That time
it was only a matter of inches that saved us.

But I think the hardest times of all were those times when Ellen
and the children and I were just sitting on the floor--those
times when there seemed to be nothing to do. We had a bomb shelter
built for this occasion, but there was a gun nest in the property
close to the shelter and we felt that bombs might be aimed at it
and hit the bomb shelter. You know bomb shelters are not good for
direct hits. They only protect from shrapnel and from close hits.
Then there was machine gun and rifle fire across our compound so
that it was unsafe to even try to get to the shelter. So we just
sat on the ground floor of our middle hall.

At lunch time we did not dare to try to cook anything for fear
of fire in case a bomb lit near. Then, too, we were afraid of the
fire from the guns in the street. So between bursts of fire we
banged around between the open windows in the kitchen to pick
a few biscuits and some cottage cheese we had made early in the
morning. Between the three of us I doubt if we had appetite to
get three biscuits. I do remember that the cheese tasted good.
We were parched with thirst but the water did not quench it. All
the morning we tried to amuse Edward with pictures and stories and
so on. Carolyn was good most of the time and lay in her basket.

["3", "## Ringwood", "### Community Church of Ringwood", "Contribution to the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Paterson as partial support for their Friday night youth program. Contribution to the pastor's discretionary fund for food to help the hungry in Ringwood.", "## Rutherford", "### First Presbyterian Church", "Honoraria for a report at a church dinner on the Pilrgimage to the Soviet Union.", "## Teaneck", "### First Presbyterian Church of Teaneck", "Allocation not yet decided.", "## Tenafly", "### First Presbyterian Church", "Contributed to the Self-Development Project of the Presbytery in Annemanie, Georgia.", "## West Milford", "### Presbyterian Church", "Contribution to the West Milford program to provide shelter for the homeless: food, bedding, etc.", " (+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +

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else. We had often talked to him about "Grandfather Gibbs' car".
Then he got into the car in Honolulu he wanted to know if the
Hawaiian driver was "Grandpa Gibbs." We spent a few hours in the
morning driving and then went to a hotel at Waikiki Beach where
we put Carolyn to bed and had lunch. After naps we all went out
for a couple of hours on the beach and in the water. The water
is the best there that I have ever seen. Edward could not make
up his mind to get wet for quite awhile, but before we were through
he was really enjoying it.

We really enjoyed Honolulu this time more than we did before.
It is one of the most enchanting places I have ever seen. Such
loveliness day after day might become common, but it would be
a glorious place for about a month of vacation. I felt much better
for just a few hours there, and we all certainly disliked getting
back on the boat again.

I had planned to w ire you of our arrival from the boat a
few days out of San Francisco, but yesterday an order came from the
Japanese government forbidding any more wireless messages to be
sent from the boat. With relations between Japan and the U.S.
as they are we have had some anxious moments on this ship, but we
are still headed for San Francisco, and that is the main thing.

We were disappointed when we heard that we had been booked on
a Japanese boat, but it was the only available thing left out of
Shanghai. The boat itself is good---probably better than American
boats would have been. But we just have that uneasy feeling all the
time that keeps us looking at the sun or the stars to see what
direction we are taking.

The whole family have been good sailors. Carolyn is cutting
some teeth which have caused her a little discomfort, but she
has been very good in spite of that. She is good natured by
inheritance?? But there are times when she has terrific tempers---
perhaps also by inheritance. She and Edward enjoy each other more
all the time. Edward is very good about her and is very much con-
cerned whether she will fall off the bed or is hungry etc. He is
growing fast and is very much on our hands. He can get about the
ship alone, so he does if he can get away from us. I have some
pictures of them both which I will enclose.

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We really enjoyed Honolulu this time more than we did before.
It is one of the most enchanting places I have ever seen. Such
lovliness day after day might become common, but it would be
a glorious place for about a month of vacation. I felt much better
for just a few hours there, and we all certainly disliked getting
back on the boat again.

The whole family have been good sailors. Carolyn is cutting
some teeth which have caused her a little discomfort, but she
has been very good in spite of that. She is good natured by
inheritance?? But there are times when she has terrific tempers---
perhaps also by inheritance. She and Edward enjoy each other more
all the time. Edward is very good about her and is very much con-
cerned whther she will fall off the bed or is hungry etc. He is
growing fast and is very much on our hands. He can get about the
ship alone, so he does if he can get away from us. I have some
pictures of them both which I will enclose.

克

Our furlough plans will not be complete until after we get our
physical examinations and get ahold of some university bulletins.
we will keep you informed about our plans.

I have been wondering about Ed and Dick and the draft. Per-
haps Ed's feet will make it impossible for him to serve in combat
duty, but what about Dick?

My own ideas have changed somewhat since the day we sat on the
floor and the soldiers fought all around our place and over it.
since that time the idea of inaction in time of struggle has become
abhorrent to me. I have not had enough peace and quiet yet to think
it through. I cannot entirely give up my former ideas of the evil
of war. As I see things now there is no place in the scheme of
things in this world where one can find satisfaction. We will just
have to try to find the place where we can do what we think is our
best--and do it there. Certainly the evil that we find in aggressive
armies must be opposed. The way to oppose and to fight evil is
what is hard to find out.

I do hope that we will all be able to see you soon. Our
best regards to all of you.

June 30, 1941

Sun Ya Restaurant
Shanghai, Kiangsu

The days between embarkation at Ningpo and the
present moment in Shanghai have been filled to the brim
with shopping and other matters necessary to travel home.

I got my tickets this morning. We are scheduled
to sail at 3 P.M. on Thursday. Between now and then
we have general packing to finish, freight to attend to
and last minute shopping to finish.

We are living with Mr. and Mrs. Boone at Southgate.
We lived with them when we first landed in China five
years ago. It is interesting to be with them now again
on the way out.

They are doing the best piece of social reconstruc-
tion work that I have either seen or read about anywhere.
Through the Institute they re-patriot the natives who
come back to their war broken homes in this area. Along
with the employment, feeding and teaching of track, they
also have nurseries for the babies and schools for the
children of the parents whom they are helping. They
also have Christian instruction for all those who work
in the Institute. During the last year they have re-
ceived about one hundred people into the Church through
the work and influence of the Institute. This is many
more than enter the average church.

These people do not enter easily, but only after
intensive study of the Bible and after several exami-
nations.

It seems to me that this is the type of work that
we ought to be spending more time and energy on in all
our missions at the present time. We ought to be giving
the unfortunate a new chance at life. We ought to be
taking the beggars off the streets and to be teaching
them how to again become constructive and useful men-
bers of society.

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East China, 2, 294

by Baptists, 116, 143, 366

and Bible stories, 338

South China, 116, 143, 366

Episcopal Church, 377

evacuation, 385

Evangelical Church, 220

America, 2, 273, 361, 380

Fenchow, 148

First Baptist Church (Cartersville, Georgia), 86

First Methodist Church (Springfield, Illinois), 104

Fukien, 159, 322

German missionaries, 462

homelife, 40

India, 124, 455, 459

Kiangsi, 56, 82, 102, 170

Linhsien, 350

London Mission, 274

medical missionaries, 348

medical work, 322

Methodist Church,

Board, 11

Foochow Conference, 331

Hinghwa Conference, 333

Society of Christian Service, 210, 274

West China, 230, 274

Yenping Conference, 274, 331