HELPFUL WORK
OF CHRISTIAN COLLEGES IN CHINA The Christian colleges in China are helping the needy to help themselves. For many years these institutions have been the leaders in the reconstruction of the Chinese nation. Through these colleges, 22 ■ British, Canadian, and American Protestant boards have given new skills, new knowledge, and new hope to countless Chinese, both Christian and non-Christian.
More than 80' per cent of the Chinese people are farmers. Therefore, ' the Christian colleges have naturally made a special effort to help the inhabitants of rural areas to solve‘their most pressing problems. The University of Nanking, which this year' completes 55 years of service to China, has become the centre' of agricultural training, and in the current year can claim as its alumni 40 per cent of all the trained agriculturists in China. Another centre of creative work in agriculture is West China Union University. During the past 20' years a small band of worker's on its Chengtii campus have changed the food habits of thousands of Chinese—“ Christian Science Monitor.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 November 1943, Page 4
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