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Soon Chisholm's superiors decided he would really be better off in China. So they hustled him out to Pai-tan, a remote, upriver mission. Wrote the secretary of the foreign missions society: "Pai-tan is a delightful spot . . . four hundred communicants and over one thousand baptisms. . . . My dear fellow, I rejoice that this prize is to be yours. . . . Get good strong durable soutanes. Short drawers are the best and I advise a body belt...
When Father Chisholm reached Pai-tan, he found "an acre of deserted earth, sun-scorched, gullied by the rains. ... At one end stood the remnants of a mud-brick chapel, the roof blown off, one wall collapsed, the others crumbling. Alongside lay a mass of caved-in rubble which might once have been a house." "Here, Father," said one of the only two rice-Christians left of the congregation, "is the mission...
...this rubbish, in the midst of hatred and contempt. Father Chisholm built the mission of Pai-tan and his spiritual life. How he taught himself to practice medicine, how he saved the life of Tycoon Chia's son, how he brought Pai-tan through the plague, famine, banditry, how he overcame the deep Teutonic hatred of his German Reverend Mother, made friends with the Methodist missionaries, was tortured by bandits and escaped, make up most of The Keys of the Kingdom...
...title: in Chinese, Pai jih p'o ching chih yuan;* in Tin Pan Alleyese, When I Get Out, Beloved. Inmate Yun, 27, based his song on a 2,000-year-old Cantonese legend of a separated bride & groom, joined again in old age with the aid of matching halves of a little round mirror each had treasured through the years...
They must first suppress the Man, Chiang, who has spoiled their plans. Even if they could get him they might not bring an end to Chinese resistance. Chinese national consciousness is becoming a hardy plant, and there are now other good Chinese generals, notably Li Tsung-jen and Pai Chung-hsi of the crack Kwangsi army, who might carry on. But the death of Chiang might mean a short period of struggle for power within China. With such a struggle for power going on, Japan could terminate hostilities without loss of Face...