Word: weis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week a suave, slight Chinese Protestant prescribed the same rule for the conversion of his enormous and absorbent country. Dr. Francis Cho Min Wei knows what he is talking about. In China he is a college president-of Hua Chung College (Christian) in Wuchang. In the U.S. (this year) he is Henry W. Luce Visiting Professor of World Christianity at Union Theological Seminary. In both countries he is a recognized authority on Chinese conversion, who says of himself: "My whole study and research has been directed to discovering how to Christianize the Chinese culture...
This week scholarly, debonair Dr. Wei delivered the last of the six Hewett Lectures, founded in 1923 to provide speakers on "the truths of Christianity" to Union, Andover-Newton, and Episcopal Theological Seminaries. After highlighting the background of Chinese culture, he went on in his hesitant, pleasantly gurgling English to impress his students with the importance of adapting organized Christianity to Chinese usages...
...Christianity's future in his country, smiling convert Wei is an optimist, though a long-range one. "I have no hope," he says, "of China becoming Christian within a century. At present, only half of 1% of the Chinese population is nominally Christian, and only a tenth of 1% is Protestant...
...supplies were coming in; that was the important thing. The Chinese high command, in new headquarters at Kunming, prepared to muster its best forces: the American-trained First and Sixth Armies from India, the troops of bushy-mustached, "100-Victories" Marshal Wei Li-huang, the battle-tried formations of hot-tempered, half-pint General Hsueh Yueh. From Yünnan's high plateau these troops could look out over China's gullied lands; strike out to aid the Allies who might some day land on the coast...
...disturbingly vertical. We shall not feel quite the same after that breakfast. We asked if hens are fed different food, perhaps BB shot, at this time of year? There was no evidence. Bizarre theories, having to do with the moon's pull, were frowned upon. Even Jimmy Wei, sprightly sage of the Ministry of Information, had no information. "Why try to explain in one day," he asked practically, " what has not been explained in four thousand years...