Page 4 - 創校十六週年感言 The sixteenth anniversary and college day

THE SIXTEENTH ANNIVERSARY AND COLLEGE DAY

As we look forward to our sixteenth College Day , my heart is thankful to our God.

The starting of Christ’s College was an experiment in faith. I had been sternly warned

that the course I was planning to pursue world end in defeat. In the first place it was
insisted that unless the college was placed under the ministry of Education it could not
continue and would be closed up promptly , Or if , perchance , I might be allowed to
struggle along with it for a while without government recognition nobody would

come to attend it.

To these friendly prophets of doom I only had commissioned me to establish a
Christian liberal arts college in this beautiful island of Taiwan. That being the case , I

felt the Lord had an obligation to help me and keep me from failure.

Since I had already established the College of Science and Engineering which was
now under the full control of the Ministry of Education. I had hopes that they might

treat me with come consideration when I undertook to establish an independent
Christian liberal arts college and prayed to that end. That in the sixteen years we have
carried on the government has not interfered with our program in Christ’s College in
the slightest degree can only be assigned to a gracious Divine providence that has

been exercised in our behalf , and whatever of virtue or wisdom may be imagined of
any human equation in the emergence of this beloved institution, must still be fully
accredited to the same benign Power and Person referred to above.

In three year the Science and Engineering College already had enough to support
itself, so since I would not be leaving a baby I had produced, destitute, I decided to
make the break ,and called on my great helper, Herbert Chang (who did come than
anybody to help me with the Science and Engineering college) to go out all over

North Taiwan and find another campus. With great surprise he said “Another
campus”!!!??? “Yes,” I replied “and don’t come back home until you have found it”

He came back in about ten year and said “I have found it!” So we got in my car and

he lad me over a very muddy road to the present site of Christ’s College with nothing
on it except high grass and small trees, but with a beautiful view. I walked all over it
and become convinced that this was God’s Place for us. But how will I get it? I saw a
stone marker with the Chinese characters on it “