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Caption in lecture reads "What Confucius failed to do for the human soul was left to Taoists and Buddhists to try to do. But Confucius, Laotse and Buddha are no more enough than Socrates and Plato in Greece or Moses and the prophets in Israel. 'None but Jesus can do helpless sinners good.' This Taoist monk believes intensely in a world of spirits. He stands for the magical and mysterious in nature. He's a blind leader of the blind, waiting for the Light of the World. How can we help him?" Part of an incomplete set of prints from a lecture by Harold Rattenbury entitled, "China: A Personal Record." The script for this lecture is also held in SOAS archives, number 154. The preface reads, Most of our China material was prepared before the Communist Revolution. We continue to use it it shews how Christ has built His Church in China, and how as a result of Missionary endeavour - a living Church is there now to continue its witness. May its use lead all who come to renewed prayer for Christians in China at this time.
Type
image
Format
gelatin silver prints, 20.4 x 14.7 cm. photographs
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