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...Asia, says Dr. Van Dusen, this kind of service has done much to overcome tendencies toward anti-Americanism. Even among the headhunters in Formosa, "there is taking place today one of the most remarkable mass movements into the Christian church . . . Since the war, they have built with their own hands over 100 new churches...
...Africa, south of the Sahara and north of Natal, 85% of all school education is under missionary direction. When Dr. Van Dusen asked the director of education in the Gold Coast where he managed to get teachers to man his recently quadrupled educational program, he replied: "From the missionary training colleges. There is no other possible source...
Pregnancy Preferred. The problems that beset the missions, Dr. Van Dusen found, are both old & new. The old problem of teaching sexual morality is still bafflingly difficult-especially in Africa, with its tradition of multiple marriage and its placid view of premarital and extramarital sexual relations. "One of our finest missionary nurses told me," he wrote back to friends, "that her African student nurses welcome pregnancy since it makes them more readily marriageable . . . The Paris Mission has projected a large boarding school to take little girls between six and eight years of age and keep them without ever letting them...
Three other major factors with which the Protestant African missions will have to deal, says Dr. Van Dusen, are: 1) "the whirlwind of social, economic and political dislocations which are sweeping from the west coast eastward and southward"; 2) the multiplying activities of governments in fields previously dominated by the missions; 3) the expansion of Roman Catholicism, "especially in French, Belgian, Portuguese and Spanish territories...
Letter to Diognetus. But Van Dusen is confident of the outcome. "As one hops quickly from continent to continent and country to country, almost everything changes-climate, clothes, color of skin, customs, language, outlook. There is only one thing . . . which is everywhere the same: Christians and the Christian church...