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When General Chiang Kai-shek marched up from Canton through the centre of China four years ago to capture Peking and establish the Nationalist government he led an army plentifully supplied with Soviet arms, Soviet gold, Soviet propaganda. Once established in Nanking, the Nationalist leaders did their best to forget their Russian connections, but in southern Kiangsi province, through which they first advanced, Communist doctrines took such healthy root that there are today lusty bandit armies which march under Red banners, post Communist placards, preach Communist sermons in the intervals of strictly capitalist Private Looting...
...that by tricks and spells one could ward off devils, and that it was dangerous not to respect one's omnipresent ancestors. Thus had Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism deteriorated. But Christianity had appeared to "revive" these lowly Chinese. Last week the most exalted man in China, General Chiang Kaishek, president of the Nationalist government, became and was baptized a Christian; to be exact, a Methodist...
...Chiang is as much a Conqueror as was Constantine I (288-337 A.D.), the Roman general who espoused Christianity when convinced that by the Sign of the Cross he would conquer, and who did conquer Rome itself, became emperor. Two years ago, when still a Buddhist, General Chiang, with his Christian wife praying for him, conquered all of China proper (TIME, June 21, 1928 et ante). He has just been through a long summer of battles to consolidate his conquest. Last week there was no apparent reason, except sincere conviction, why the president should have gone to his mother...
...were reported last week in Kiangsi province. The slogan of the hour is "China for the Chinese!" And some Chinese consider Christianity un-Chinese. With these facts in mind Pastor Kaung said last week of his presidential convert: "At this time, when anti-Christian agitation is particularly rife, General Chiang's act required the highest moral courage...
...Feng and Chang are Northerners. North and South China are agelong foes. But last week Southerner Chiang Kaishek, President at Nanking, could at least boast that he had broken and hurled back if not destroyed the armies of Yen and Feng which last spring seemed bent on his extermination. Next spring will be another spring...