"CHINA—LOOKING BACKWARD AND FORWARD"

Chronicle (Levin), 18 October 1946, Page 4

"CHINA—LOOKING BACKWARD AND FORWARD"

missionary'sf address Addressing a gathering in St. Andrews' Presbyterian, ChUrcli, , last evening, Miss Francis G. Ogilyie. B.A., a member of the staff .of tlie mission of the Pfesbyteriah Churches in New Zealand to the Cantdni villages, South. Chiha, sp'dkb on the subject "Cliina — lodking backward and forward." . ' ' Miss Ogilvie begah her missionary work in 1920 in a school for Chinese girls, During the pa|t quarter of a century she.had takeh part in a growing evangelical, edu--cational and medrcal work, which had increasingly won the confidepce of a people whose lives had been lived against a background of a . w.ant. . and faxnine , situation, From 1938, soon after the invasion of the . Canton area by the Japan-' ese, Miss Ogilvie had shared ih the work o'f relieving the distress of many refugee women ahd. children. This work had b"een permitted to cohtihue until Japan entered the war on the Axis side. . That involved the missionaries in .three and a-half years of internment. Miss Ogilvie was interned ih the Stanley Say camp at Hongkpng, and experienced the frequent air raids of tha;t area. Miss Ogilvie described manv aspects of the Christian work the mission was engaged. in, making special reference to the education of women and girls, to training in the scriptures and to training as nurses and midwives. Through the devoted service of an Austrian refugee ddctor ahd the Chinese nursing staff, the mission hospital at Kong Chuen had kept its doors open right through the fighting and the Japanese occupation. "rhe speaker also illustrated her factual material with some most informative screen slides. A hearty vote of thanks was car - ried unanimously and the gathering adjourned to the Sunday School hall, where supper was served by members ' of the St. Andrew's Women's Missionary Union, and where Miss Ogilvie met many friends and answered enquiries put to her by members of the •aoneTPiVB