Word: chen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Bishop Chen, speaking at an interdenominational service in Manhattan's Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church...
...Chinese magistrate in Foochow, Chen Wenyuan was born a Buddhist. At Foochow's Anglo-Chinese College he learned about Christianity from Methodist Bishop John Gowdy,* adopted the faith, promptly converted his mother (his father was dead), several cousins. In 1917 he came to Syracuse University (he helped pay his way by teaching Chinese) later took a Ph.D. at Duke, followed by summer courses at Cambridge University, the University of Berlin. After a year of European lecturing, Dr. Chen, who had been ordained to the Methodist ministry, returned to China to be Dean of Fukien Christian College. Five years later...
Later Chiang Kai-shek asked him to help organize China's Youth Corps, and for 20 years he has been one of the leaders of Chinese youth. Bishop Chen is a strong nationalist and internationalist...
Three years ago Dr. Chen became Bishop of the Methodist Church's Chungking Area. (Only other Chinese Methodist Bishop: Dr. Z. T. Kaung of Pekin.) Chungking's population ebbs & flows with so many refugees that even the Bishop does not know how many Methodists are there. In all China there are not more than five million Christians. But Bishop Chen is more than a Methodist leader. He is a great interfaith leader, and Chinese of all beliefs know of him and his work for Chinese unity. He is a prime force in the Fellowship of Religious Believers...
...Last year Bishop Chen baptized the Generalissimo's second son, Captain Chiang Wei-kuo. 29. *Three weeks ago Retired Bishop Gowdy now living at Winter Park, Fla., received the Special Order of Brilliant Stars medal from Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek...