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Fo . Of the need for a home defence "Wiorce, there can be no question, Old China Is Gone, Says Mme. Chiang Generalissimo's Wife De- scribed As Great Humank tarian Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek has been catalogued in various ways: as a Joan of Arc, a Florence Nightin- gale, as an astute politician and mover of forces on a chess board; and as simply and wholly a great humanitarian. "Phere is a certain « slipshod fitness in .each of the terms, but noue of them completely describes' her, Vanya Oakes writey in "White Man's Folly." What Mme. Chiang has done is to highlight for the rest of the world that change which has "come to China, and her role - fn the world picture is as No. 1 go-between for China in the matter of world understanding. As is well known, she frequently gicts in pube lic as the generalissimo's inter preter, In private, interprets for -the hard-headed issimo events and motives of | tern" world, of which =! uncoms mon grasp. Old and New Meet Sho has a natural gift for set- ting the rigift example at the right psychological moment, In effect sho says, in humanitarian terms: "Old China is gone; New China gays, 'Come out from behind the | orchid door to build up a strong next gener ation." Suiting action to words, her war-orphans' home, her nursing - work, and so on have helped im- measurably to break down the rigid class distinctions of Old China. f Yet, for all she may be the epi- tome of New China triumphant, she has mandged to keep the great tenet of anclent China--"There Is a thing to bhé done." Thus she maintains an idiom which old as well as new can clearly compre- hend. If it means goine-in person with the genera imo to India to try. to avert disaster; or if ft means going down a Chinese road and stopping trucks in order to get her orphans evacuated before oncoming raids, then "it is a thing to be done"--and Mme. Chiaig simply does it. And I think it is the embodiment in Mme, Chiang of this meeting of old and new which has been a large factor in enabling China to resist so stanch- ly, these many years. British Building Road Into Burma really Workers Hacking Their | Way Through Dense Jungle Strong communication lines are being stretched «from strategic centres in India to points in Bur ma for eventual use against the Japanese, writes an Acgsociated Press correspondent. By train, trucks, army car and "foot '1 taveled a long way over one of these lines to this outpost where workers are hacking their way through dense jungles and over mountains. . Details of this (tremendous project must remain secret, hut it's an Impressive undertaking and few engineering problems aro as difficult. The road runs most. ly through mountains where no road ever existed and few (trails. - Milles of roadbed are hlasted out of rock on mountainsides over- hanging valleys. Parts of the road - are above the clouds. . Old Method 'Used The work is being done mostly by coolies, including women. I saw thousands of coolids using meth- ods generations old. They ear- ried diet on their heads in wicker baskets. They ciushed stoies one by one with home-made hammers. They slashed through the jungle with long heavy knives that also are useful weapons, Modern equipment was used wherever possible, but the coolies can work in places where huge machines cannot go, I saw troops being rained fn every conceivable phase of jungle warfare. Some of the Indian troops need little training because they. grew up in the mountains and jungles. 4 Despite the Intense hardships ~ of working in this area the moale of British troops Is high. At one point I came across a British ser- geant far back in the woods where he was helping clear a path for telephone lines. He was lustily singing "Trees." Home Defence says <The Montreal Star, This country, or parts of it, aré lable to attack from either the Atlantic - or the Pacific at any time, and it would be a delinquent Government that neglected to take precaution. ary measures. But in' existing circumstances we cannot pe ex- pected tq build and mainfain Jarge fleets of fighting aircraft and keep them in this country, while men dle for lack of them in the Afri . ean desert or in Great Britain, or . on any one of the several active frofits, . and go to work-swork '|- 4 EDITOR'S NOTE: In future the current Sunday School Lesson will be published ' one week earlier than usual, February 14 JESUS HEALS A MAN BORN _BLIND.--John 9. 'PRINTED TEXT "John 9:18.38" . GOLDEN TEXT.--One thing | know, that, whereas 1 was blind, now 1 see. John 0:20, Memory:Verse; let us-love one another, I John 4:7. THE LESSON IN ITS SETTING Time.-----Mid-October, A.D, 20, Place.-- Somewhere in. the city of Jerusalem. "The Jews thereTore did not believe concerning "him, that he had been blind, and had received his sight, until th called the parents of him that, had received his sight, and asked them, saying, Is this your son, who yc say was born blind? how then doth he now sce?' His parents answered and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind. but how he now sceth, we know not;- or who opened his eyes, we know not: ask him; he is of age; he shall speak for bhinself.," How © stubborn the human heartecan be when it is determined that, no matter how great the evidence, it will not recognize Jesus to be the Son of God. "These things said his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any wan should confess him to be Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue. Therefore said his parents, He. is of age; ask him." The Pharisees refused to acknowledge the truth concerning Christ. Long before this they had taken their stand against Christ and now they were, through sheer pride of office, determined not to acknowledge their fault by chang. ing their verdict. The Beggar's' Testimony "So they called a second time the man that was blind, and said unto him, Give glory to God: we know that this man is a_sinner. He therefore answered, whether he is a sinner, I kpow not: one thing I know, blind, now I see." The" phrase 'Give glory to God' is a solemn charge to declare the whole truth. "They said therefore unto him, what did he unto thee? how op- ened he thine eyes? He answered them, I told you cven now, and ye did not hear; wherefore would ye hear it again? would ye also become his disciples?" The re- peating of the question of how the man was healed simply re- veals the fact that these stubborn men were finding the testimony of the beggar too strong and clear for denial. A God-Fearing Person "And< they reviled him, and eaid, Thou art his disciple; but we are disciples of Moses, We know that God hath spoken unto Moses; but as for this man, we know not whence he is. The man answered and said unto them, Why, herein is the marvel, that ye know not whence he is, and yet he opened mine eyes." The Pharisees knew that God had spoken to Moses, but they do not - know whence this man Jesus is; that is, they do not know that He is from God, at which confession of ignorance the one once blind shows his astonishment. 'We know that God heareth not sinners: shipper of God, and do his will, him_he heareth. Since the world beg it was never heard that any one opened the eyes of a man horn blind. If this man were not from God, he could do -noth- Ing." The Pharisees actually have: only furthered the beggar's think. Ing: for while at first he is not teady to discusg whether Jesus is an open sinner, now he nroves conclusively that 'he must be the very opposite, a God-fearing per- son who does God's will. The Son of Man "They answered and said unto him, Thou wast altogether born dn sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out." Defeated by his pitiless logic, the adver- aries of Jesus give way to rage. "Jesus heard that they had cast chim out; and finding him, he said, Dost thou believe on the Son of God?" The thought of 'the Son cof Man' stands in ~ with the selfish isolation of 'the Jews! The new sociéty, seen here fn its beginning, rests upon this foundatign, wide as lumanity It self, "He answered and said, And who fs he, Lord, that - may be- Meve on hini? _ Jesus said unto him, Thou hast both seen him, and he it is that epeaketh with thee." "Thon hast seen Him,' was not that enough to prove His claim? Jesus: gave the beggar eyes to-sce; now he has given him the Christ to look at. "And he said, Lord, 1 believe. And he worshipped him. " This , man, of course, did not have a full conception of all that the Sonship of Christ. involved, for "even the Apostles themselves were slow in that, whereas T was but if any man be a wor-. true contrast Confirmation of reports that Germany defeat is seen in the elevation of Admiral in supreme command of Grand Admiral Erich 2 submarine fleet pack" U-boat tactics, is pictured, left above, greeting the rising tide of Doenitz to be Grand Navy, succeeding former commander of the marine crew, can stem al Karl wernin Admiral Docenite, stator of "wolf. returned sub- hopes U-hoa tacder, and ori coming .to realize the full meaning of Christ's deity. But this man did believe that Christ had come from God, that He was God's Son, that He was doing God's work, that His words were true. A man who believes this much wlil believe all else that he finds concerning Christ in the Word of God. Only 12,000 Nazis Fight at Stalingrad All but 12,000 of the German Sixth Army that once fought its way into the streets of Stalin- grad have' been wiped out or taken prisoner and the three main railroads radiating out from the cenire--to the north, the Cau- ecasus and the west--have been freed from enemy control, The completenessvot the disas- "ter to 'the 220,000 troops virti- ally is conceded in Berlin where the Nazi propaganda has given out that all the remaining troops at Stalingrad may lose their lives, However, some of the ed by the Russians to have es- caped from the trap by plane One regiment, the to have for surrender. 534th, was announced surrendered en masse. German commanding officers were repori- ~ after refusing a Russian: demand - "Ephesians tered in Jery SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON LE February 21 JESUS THE GOOD SHEPHERD John 10 PRINTED TEXT John 10:1.5, 11-16, 27-30 ~ GOLDEN TEXT. -- I am the good shepherd: the good shep. herd layeth down his life for the sheep. John 10:11. Memory Verse: le ye 4 32. THE LESSON IN ITS SETTING Time.-- The- first half of this chapter, through vegse- 21, ret cords a messave uttered by our Lord in mid-October AD. 29, The words recorded in verses 22-39 were uttered in late December of that ycar; within a few days after, the event vecorded in the last two verses took place, Place.-- Tach of the discourses vecorded in this chapter was ut- em, but of course, the event spoken of in fhe last three verses occurred in Bethany beyond Jordan, The Shepherds TH "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door = Kind. 1 By William Ferguson Pp CAN SURVIVE FREEZING OF THE WATER. i ii ad THIS CURIOUS WORLD QULIINK | KOREANS WEAR. SMALL £ Or NG RODS ' o THEIR. TOPKNOTS TO AVERY EViL TORIES COPR. 1742 BY ELS me: and 1 give unio them ete "into the fold of the sheep, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber," Jesus means to describe here the audacity full of cunning with which: the Pharisces had ceeded in establishing their au- thority in the enclosure of the people of God. "But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the porter open- eth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by nante, and leadeth them out. When he hath put forth all his own, he goeth before them, and follow him: for they know his voice. And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from himz for the. know not the voice of strangers." The shepherd's call is nized by his awn pv sheep for each the sheep recog of which he a name Him only will they follow; from a stranger's call they not ! flee, recognizitig the recognize the ovi voice, Ther moor violence as in thief (Ps. 11023.) The Good Shepherd "1 am pherd: good shy ayct doan h life for Lis sheep. He that is a hireling, and not a Lep! whose own sheep they beholdeth the wolf « leaveth the sheep, and the wolf I peattereth cause he is them, leer arcth not fur th pe is the Perfect Slophord as oppo-od to His own imperfect ministers, Ile is the true shepliovd as opposed to tho--1 shepherds who are hypocrites: He is phierd who gh hivelings the good sh life for the wicked lives, {to preserve "1 am the 1 know know nu ledge of sympathy. sheep as opp thief who takes their his o 1 dp; amd Ne Own s the knows pool mine own, love, frost and know oursclves truly only in Christ's knowledye of us One Flock, One Shepherd "Fen tl me, and | 1 lay down for the And other cp 1 have, which are not of this fold: them also 1 must brine, and they shall hear ;oand they shall become shepherd." Christ my voi one flock, one foresaw His death escaped it but that He came to die for the sins of the people. We have Lere our Lord teaching us how to think of the .certain issues of Hi work and ours, There-is--to he hut one Shepherd and over all the earth a great unity of obedience to Him, voice, and follow "My cheep hear my T know tiem, and they life; and they hall never persis and no one shall snateh them out of my hand.. My Father, who hath given them unto me, than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand." What infinite privileges are granted to the trae sheep of the Good Shepherd: they are given cternal life; they shall never be taken out of the safe- keeping of the Shepherd; they ave the gift of the Father to the Son; they are forever safe in the Father's hands. All the power of the Godhead is here revealed as more than ficient for the eternal preservation of those whom the Father has given to the Son. Conadian Women Have J.ondon Club Canadian women in the Serve fees or encapged in war work in Britain now have their own © tral go place in Cc Corner painted, bi open at § if olk street, fo hind Canada House, off Frafalgar Square, Already more htan 100 young Canadian girls, mogtiy in uni- form, are making use of the club's facilities, There are a comfortable sitting room, with Canadian mayg- azines and paners, a rest room and a snack Lar, is in residence, and with-day hos- tesses shaves the task of yiving information or advice to recent arrivals who as vet do not know their way around London, suc-- and could have is greater A house mother Fy dEar Radeo eDitorS; sense 1 as bin fogethul' With aMos fur sew mennY Years, and sense MosT o yo rememmmbur me an aMos bacK wen it wuz Am v'n HENRY" their aint muTch to tell yo tHat yu dont kno. olUr sloGGa whilLE diaLin' becal!Se yo can't go Rong with a ANDREW H. Brown enTerlrize beeAuSe | we alm to pleas an-kEEp all Us. tomerS satisfild, Also mule fer- nished fOr whddipgs an sociablks, RespetinlY Yours ANDREW H. Bow Esk. « PrEsid't & dillecty (also aMoz rly fresi alr'taxicall Co adio editors ac the United States and Canada were highly amused 0 receive rec wo let ter, of whi th t « CX. Iv ) fa tam < Ano 4 in Vie 4 ol yo tin Poni! Fhelr N \ vie then vit, no they ne nigel on this "ai doy are is "keEp sMilin, RADIO REPORTER réx most Amos¢N Andy over WMAQ, Chie cago. The rest of the story is hise tory, well known to the vash majority of radio listeners in North America, For more than 8 years they had the largest weeks ly audience of any program on the air. 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