MAO TSE-TUNG CHINA: GET OUT*

THE ENORMOUS Red tide of Communism in China today may have had its beginning trickle in a small, seemingly insignificant event which occurred many years ago in the life of a student in China.

The humble student had not always been opposed to the message of Christ. Enrolled in a Christian Mission school, he had heard from the lips of a faithful servant of Christ the life-changing Gospel of Jesus Christ.

One day several years after he graduated, the young student learned that his beloved teacher had returned to visit the city. Eagerly the student made his way to the fine hotel where the missionary was a guest.

But the doorman rudely refused to admit him. Determined to see the missionary, he managed to make his way into the lobby where he explained his mission.

"Get out!" cried the desk clerk.

"But I want to see my teacher. He's a missionary...!"

"I don't care if he is a missionary," came the reply. "We don't want Chinese around here." And the big Westerner tossed the slight young Chinese out of the hotel.

He walked away. So that's how "Christian" Westerners act! he thought. So that's how they treat a Chinese!

It no longer mattered that the student had been educated for a time in a school supported by missionary funds ... taught by a man who had dedicated his life for service to God in the land of China. The humiliation at the hands of a Westerner had been complete.

What happened in the heart of that student that day is something you and I are suffering for today-something our children may die for.

The student? Mao Tse-tung, a name that epitomizes ruthlessness, godlessness, materialism, anti-God, anti-Christ. Mao Tse-tung, former head of the Communist Party in China.

Might things be different today if a small Christian kindness had been shown the young man years ago?

*From Dr. Bob Pierce's missionary notebook