CHINESE SOLDIERS’ PSALM
To hear a file of Chinese soldiers on the march through a village in the interior of the country singing one of the psalms in their own tongue .was an experience described by Mr. Howard Knight to the annual meeting of the British and Foreign Bible Society in Auckland. Mr. Knight recently returned after eight years as a missionary in China. It was mot the tune, but the words, /he said, which first drew his attention. He later discovered that the men were singing the psalm to a Chinese melody, a change which had become fairly popular.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20109, 1 December 1939, Page 6
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100CHINESE SOLDIERS’ PSALM Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20109, 1 December 1939, Page 6
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