. A'Chu and other stories. erlasting joys. At best he may hope that after along time he will be returned to this world to try lifeover again in some other form of existence. Many of the truest and wisest of Chinas leaderstoday are saying that China is poor, and blind, andwretched, and naked, because her people have for-saken the true God and followed after idols. Onehas said, There is but one help for all our troubles,that is Jesus Christ. Long centuries ago, while China was a great na-tion, still satisfied with her own ways, the prophetof Israel saw this need. He predicted that Godwould send
. A'Chu and other stories. erlasting joys. At best he may hope that after along time he will be returned to this world to try lifeover again in some other form of existence. Many of the truest and wisest of Chinas leaderstoday are saying that China is poor, and blind, andwretched, and naked, because her people have for-saken the true God and followed after idols. Onehas said, There is but one help for all our troubles,that is Jesus Christ. Long centuries ago, while China was a great na-tion, still satisfied with her own ways, the prophetof Israel saw this need. He predicted that Godwould send help to this darkened people, and leadmany of them into his kingdom: Thus saith the Lord, ... to him whom mandespiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to aservant of • rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princesalso shall worship, because of the Lord that is faith-ful, . . and he shall choose thee. . Behold,these shall come from far: and, lo, these from thenorth and from the west; and these from the land CITY WALL AND GATE 108 CHINAS NAME OF PROMISE CHINA may be divided into two parts: ChinaProper, or the eighteen provinces which occupy thesoutheastern quarter of the continent of Asia; and herfive dependencies, lying to the west and north of theseprovinces. MANY NAMES FOR CHINA The name China is a foreign word. No Chi-nese calls his native land by this name. It is notknown where this name came from nor when itcame into use. Some say it was in use more thana thousand years before Christ; others think it isof a much later date. The Chinese use the term Shih-pa-sheng (the eighteen provinces) when theyspeak of China Proper. Chung Kwok (meaning middle kingdom) is thename in most common use by the Chinese. Thisname may first have been used to designate the middlepart of their own country — the Eighteen Provinces— as separate from the other divisions; but morelikely it was applied to China as the center of thewhole earth, as they conceived it to be. Their earlymaps r
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