Word: hsuchang
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...Ultimately You'll Leave." The Lutheran mission church at Hsuchang had originally been a stable. When Chen Yi's troops took Hsuchang for awhile last month they turned it back into a stable. "Instead of pews," said 30-year-old Pastor Anders B. Hansen last week, "there were stalls. . . . Light poured in through a mortar hole in the ceiling, and horses stirred in the stalls. ... It looked like the Christmas scene turned upside down...
Mission work at Hsuchang had been considerably hampered by the Communist occupation, but the missionaries considered that the Reds treated them "very decently." One remembered a young Communist officer who had scolded a soldier for spitting on the mission floor. Americans did not spit on the floor, he said; Communists would have to learn that, too. To the missionary the officer said: "Christianity is not solving China's problems. You can stay around if you want, but ultimately you'll leave...
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