"Until the time Eric* arrived, the doctors at the hospital had been reluctant to help Japanese or Communist soldiers wounded in the fighting. Although their grip on power was slipping fast, the Nationalists were still recognized as the legitimate government of China, and the hospital didn’t want to offend the Nationalist forces by treating soldiers from opposing armies. Besides, both the Japanese and the Communists despised and killed Christians. Slowly, though, Eric’s example began to change this reluctance on the part of the doctors. Eric gave help to anyone who needed it. Regardless of which side the person was on. Many on the hospital staff asked him how he could help Japanese soldiers when they were killing so many Chinese people. Eric simply pointed out that he saw every human being as someone God loved. His attitude began to spread throughout the hospital, and soon Chinese and Japanese, Communists and Nationalists, found love and help at the London Missionary Society Hospital.”
John 3:16, "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."
* Eric Liddell was a missionary kid in China, hero of movie ‘Chariots of Fire’ (who refused to run on the Sabbath) and then missionary to China. He eventually died of malnourishment and a brain tumor in a Japanese internment camp during World War 2.
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