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Show America has the future of China in her hands. What will we do with the opportunity? AMERICA AND NEW CHINA. Once in my little boyhood I was walking along a railroad track, with marsh land on either side. I heard a strange fluttering in the tall reeds beside the road. From the fence I looked down and saw an English sparrow entangled in the reeds. It had darted down to escape a passing hawk. I parted the reeds with my hands and gave the little fellow wing room and sky room. It used the powers God had given it and quickly rose into God's open blue, calling back to me as it went, "Thank you, boy, thank you." It is America's high privilege to part the reeds above entangled China and give her release, into that liberty and larger life which a,re hers by divine right. America may well do this, for in that coming day of the re-appraisement of nations, there will be just two powers of the first order in the parliament of the world: the United States and China, comrades in world power. It may fall on these two, some day, by the policies of justice, to guide other nations into the paths of peace. Give and give freely for Chinese relief. . Starving men and women and little children need food; but the food we give them now is more than food. Long after the hunger pangs have ceased, what we. do now will live in, and plead with, and command New China's heart and hope. The American government and the American Church are retained by Almighty God to present His peace to China and China's case to the world. (H. W. G.) 'WWM'-M'ta'l |