CHINA'S APPEAL
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PRESIDENT SEEKS ASSISTANCE^ OF CHRISTIAN CHURCHES i PRAYS WITH MISSIONARIES
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| SHANGHAI, Thurs.1 r Expressing the hope that the ; Christian Church would assist in a i just and peaceful settlement of the Sino-Japanese conflict, the President,
General Chiang Kai-shek, solemnly entertained 26 foreign missionaries of every denomination at dinner. Chiang recently embraced Christianity through the Methodist Episcopal Church. Madame Chiang is also a Christian and helped to entertain at the President's Nanking residence. Chiang told the missionaries that Ch'ina was at the crossroads of peace and Bolshevism, and he urged his guests to pray for China. All present then engaged in prayer. The President said nothing about the many Christian missionaries brutally murderedMn the territory under Nationalist control in recent years. The missionaries presented Chiang and his wife with a Bible and'pledged Christianity's support.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 89, 5 December 1931, Page 5
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