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do all in their power to produce in China a Christian rural 

 civilization, and themselves fully possessed of the knowledge, 

 the skill, the insight, the sympathy, and the persistence that 

 shall keep them true to the great task. 



These ends, viewed in the light of China's need, should 

 make a great appeal to the people of the West. They 

 constitute a challenge to personal service, to liberal giving, to a 

 new interest in China's fundamental problems. Let us trust 

 and believe that the call may be heard, the challenge met. 



