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MALAYAN STORY
our Mission centres created problems which have not been solved without much travail and sacrifice.
But already the policy is paying dividends. In this short space of time, out of stark heathenism
communities of Christians have been won, and in some cases have already erected churches entirely
with their own gifts and labour. National fellow-workers too, are beginning to emerge.
The Literature Programme of the Mission has shown remarkable development. In 1954 the output of
evangelical literature from the Christian Witness Press in Hong Kong reached almost 5,000,000
pieces, produced in eight languages and ranging from a 1,000 page Bible Handbook, large Bible
Commentaries, gospel books and booklets, to leaflets and posters. Who can measure the spiritual
potential of such a stream of literature flowing into the new literate East? And all this in three years!
Here is an epic of the Divine faithfulness which would be difficult to match in missionary history.
The Adversary intended the forced evacuation from China to be a death draught. Instead, by a
Divine alchemy, it has become the elixir of life to multiplied thousands in Southeast Asia. And the
explanation? Simply this: ‘The hand of our God was upon us’.
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our Mission centres created problems which have not been solved without much travail and sacrifice.
But already the policy is paying dividends. In this short space of time, out of stark heathenism
communities of Christians have been won, and in some cases have already erected churches entirely
with their own gifts and labour. National fellow-workers too, are beginning to emerge.
The Literature Programme of the Mission has shown remarkable development. In 1954 the output of
evangelical literature from the Christian Witness Press in Hong Kong reached almost 5,000,000
pieces, produced in eight languages and ranging from a 1,000 page Bible Handbook, large Bible
Commentaries, gospel books and booklets, to leaflets and posters. Who can measure the spiritual
potential of such a stream of literature flowing into the new literate East? And all this in three years!
Here is an epic of the Divine faithfulness which would be difficult to match in missionary history.
The Adversary intended the forced evacuation from China to be a death draught. Instead, by a
Divine alchemy, it has become the elixir of life to multiplied thousands in Southeast Asia. And the
explanation? Simply this: ‘The hand of our God was upon us’.
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