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There were bright spots in the picture, however. In his weekend communique Douglas MacArthur included the dramatic story of non-Christian Igorot native tribesmen who, in an offensive over rough, matted terrain, mounted U.S. tanks like so many half-nude jockeys to direct American drivers inside. "When the attack was over," said the General, "the remnants of the tanks and of the Igorots were still there, but the 20th Japanese Infantry Regiment was completely annihilated. . . . When you tell that story, stand in tribute to those gallant Igorots...
...every three Japanese Protestants, compared to the Mission's one for every 18 in the U.S. Protestant constituency) and made 1,868 converts (adding nearly 1% to Japan's Protestant church rolls, compared to the Mission's one-eighth of 1%). Kagawa is reaching the great non-Christian mass of the Japanese people by picking out certain specific groups-lepers, bank clerks, fishermen, nurses, lawyers, tuberculosis patients-and tackling them one at a time...
...Chinese revolutionaries hounded churchmen from one end of the Yangtze to the other as "running dogs of imperialism"-and the imperialism they hated was largely Anglo-American. Today England and America, no longer hated, are two Christian friends on whose support Christian Chiang Kai-shek is counting to free China from the non-Christian Japanese invaders. And the popular identification of Christianity with the Nationalist cause has gone so far that the China-trained head of the world Y.M.C.A., Eugene E. Barnett, has actually called it a "disastrous danger," fearing that religion may become the lesser half of the partnership...
Converting 1% of the Chinese in 100 years is not in itself a cheering statistic for the missionaries, but the time may be riper than they realize for a far broader acceptance of their faith. China is today the only great non-Christian State with a Christian head. The conversion of Constantine is not the only case where through political events Christianity has come into sudden power after long years of struggling growth. After the victory at Tolbiac 1,445 years ago, heathen Clovis and his army of 3,000 Franks were baptized in gratitude. Something not far different might...
Expansion. "Christianity was built into the structure of the new nations which emerged from the migration of Europeans, and it was carried to people who previously had been professedly nonChristian. . . . In the U. S. Christianity had sufficient life more than to keep pace with the phenomenal growth of the white population and to attract as well about half of the previously non-Christian Negroes and Indians...